The Review: Volume 23

Preview

Issue 1

featuring

A Moralist in a Legalist World: A Memorial Essay for Henry Schwarzschild
The Heart of Equal Protection: Education and Race
Dead Man Walking without Due Process? A Discussion of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
The Constitutionality of Pregnancy Discrimination: The Lingering Effects of Geduldig and Suggestions for Forcing its Reversal

Issue 3

featuring

Disbursement of Indemnity for Injuries Related to Reproductive Drugs and Devices: A Swedish Perspective
Introduction
Tort Liability and the Availability of Contraceptive Drugs and Devices in the United States
Protecting Consumers, Prodding Companies, and Preventing Conception: Toward a Model Act for No Fault Liability for Contraceptives

In Depth Reading

Volume 23 Issue 1

Dead Man Walking without Due Process? A Discussion of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996

Discussion of due process violations in capital cases, specifically after passage of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act.

Neighborhood Legal Services As House Counsel to Community-Based Efforts to Achieve Economic Justice: The East Brooklyn Experience

Analyzes the benefits and disadvantages of the house counsel model as a way for public interest lawyers to support community-based economic development.

The Heart of Equal Protection: Education and Race

Explores waning commitment to racial and educational equality post-Brown and considers how emotional intelligence skills show importance of equal education.

The Constitutionality of Pregnancy Discrimination: The Lingering Effects of Geduldig and Suggestions for Forcing its Reversal

Explores the lasting impacts of Geduldig, which held pregnancy discrimination constitutional, and avenues for narrowing or overturning the decision.

Volume 23 Issue 2

A Pre-Memorial Message on Law School Teaching

Explores ways of rethinking legal education, particularly in the context of constitutional law. Focus on creating participatory classes.

Legal Education: A Problem of Learning from Text

Considers the reading process, particularly with complex material like law, and suggests how law professors might improve students' textual learning.

Lobbying for Mandatory-Arrest Policies: Race, Class, and the Politics of the Battered Women's Movement

Explores problems in the battered women's movement stemming from a lack of acknowledgment of race and class differences among battered women.

The Cultural Meaning of the Welfare Queen: Using State Constitutions to Challenge Child Exclusion Provisions

Argues that welfare reform and the child exclusion provision are racially discriminatory, but Equal Protection Clause does not protect against this.

Volume 23 Issue 3

Protecting Consumers, Prodding Companies, and Preventing Conception: Toward a Model Act for No Fault Liability for Contraceptives

Explores legislative proposals to create no-fault compensation schemes, rather law strict liability, in order to increase access, development of contraceptvies.

Contraceptive Update

Examines contraceptives to illustrate the need for more research on them.

In 1995, the Rockefeller Foundation sponsored a conference to look at public and private sector collaboration in the field of contraceptive research and development, and to make recommendations for reducing constraints and promoting this partnership. One recommendation of this conference

Tort Liability and the Availability of Contraceptive Drugs and Devices in the United States

Explores how tort law impacts the development and availability of contraceptives. Considers impact of federal proposals for tort reform on contraceptives.

N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change

Legal Scholarship for Systemic Change