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 Review: Volume 23
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- The Constitutionality of Pregnancy Discrimination: The Lingering Effects of Geduldig and Suggestions for Forcing its Reversal
- Dead Man Walking without Due Process? A Discussion of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
- A Moralist in a Legalist World: A Memorial Essay for Henry Schwarzschild
- The Heart of Equal Protection: Education and Race
Issue 2
featuring
- Lobbying for Mandatory-Arrest Policies: Race, Class, and the Politics of the Battered Women's Movement
- The Cultural Meaning of the Welfare Queen: Using State Constitutions to Challenge Child Exclusion Provisions
- Whistling Vivaldi: Legal Education and the Politics of Progress
- A Pre-Memorial Message on Law School Teaching
Issue 3
featuring
Issue 4
featuring
- Regulating Prisons of the Future: A Psychological Analysis of Supermax and Solitary Confinement
- Maintaining Procedural Protections for Welfare Recipients: Defining Property for the Due Process Clause
- Book Annotations 23.4
- The Role of Race in Child Custody Decisions between Natural Parents over Biracial Children
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.
A Moralist in a Legalist World: A Memorial Essay for Henry Schwarzschild
Essay memorializing Henry Schwarzschild, who led the ACLU Capital Punishment Project and died on the day the death penalty in military trials was upheld.
Volume 23 Issue 2
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.
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.
Whistling Vivaldi: Legal Education and the Politics of Progress
Explores ongoing challenges for women in law schools: few women faculty in areas of academic award, marginalization of "women's issues," devaluation of 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
Disbursement of Indemnity for Injuries Related to Reproductive Drugs and Devices: A Swedish Perspective
Discusses the Swedish pharamceutical insurance system and its impact on liability stemming from injuries related to contraceptives.
Introduction
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
Contraceptive Update
Examines contraceptives to illustrate the need for more research on them.
Comparison of the Availability of Contraceptive Methods in Selected European Countries and the United States
Comparison of pharmaceutical and non-drug forms of contraceptives.
Volume 23 Issue 4
The Role of Race in Child Custody Decisions between Natural Parents over Biracial Children
Analysis of social trends in custody after divorce of biracial children and the family law approach to race as a factor in judicial decision making
Book Annotations 23.4
Reviews of Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law by Daniel A. Farber and Suzanna Sherry (1997) and Jekyll on Trial: Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Law by Elyn R. Saks and Stephen H. Behnke (1997).
Regulating Prisons of the Future: A Psychological Analysis of Supermax and Solitary Confinement
Indictment of supermax and solitary isolation including legal doctrine, phycological research, policy evaluations, etc.
Maintaining Procedural Protections for Welfare Recipients: Defining Property for the Due Process Clause
Review of due process and its applicability to benefits litigation. Proposed doctrinal solution in how interprets interests and property.