The Review: Volume 23

Preview

Issue 1

featuring

The Heart of Equal Protection: Education and Race
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
A Moralist in a Legalist World: A Memorial Essay for Henry Schwarzschild

Issue 3

featuring

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

Volume 23 Issue 1

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.

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.

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.

Volume 23 Issue 2

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.

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.

A Dialogue about Socratic Teaching

Examines strengths and weaknesses of the Socratic method and its effectiveness for achieving the pedagogic goals of law school.

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.

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.

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