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
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Issue 1
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- Neighborhood Legal Services As House Counsel to Community-Based Efforts to Achieve Economic Justice: The East Brooklyn Experience
- The Constitutionality of Pregnancy Discrimination: The Lingering Effects of Geduldig and Suggestions for Forcing its Reversal
- The Heart of Equal Protection: Education and Race
- A Moralist in a Legalist World: A Memorial Essay for Henry Schwarzschild
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Issue 3
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Issue 4
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- Regulating Prisons of the Future: A Psychological Analysis of Supermax and Solitary Confinement
- Book Annotations 23.4
- The Role of Race in Child Custody Decisions between Natural Parents over Biracial Children
- Maintaining Procedural Protections for Welfare Recipients: Defining Property for the Due Process Clause
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
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.
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 Dialogue about Socratic Teaching
Examines strengths and weaknesses of the Socratic method and its effectiveness for achieving the pedagogic goals of law school.
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.
Volume 23 Issue 3
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
Litigation Rules and Culture: The European Perspective
Analyzes product liability law in Europe before and after the implementation of the EU Directive on product liability law.
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.
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.
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
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.
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).