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.
The Review: Volume 23
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- Dead Man Walking without Due Process? A Discussion of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
- Neighborhood Legal Services As House Counsel to Community-Based Efforts to Achieve Economic Justice: The East Brooklyn Experience
- A Moralist in a Legalist World: A Memorial Essay for Henry Schwarzschild
- The Constitutionality of Pregnancy Discrimination: The Lingering Effects of Geduldig and Suggestions for Forcing its Reversal
Issue 2
featuring
Issue 3
featuring
- Comparison of the Availability of Contraceptive Methods in Selected European Countries and the United States
- Book Annotation 24.3
- Protecting Consumers, Prodding Companies, and Preventing Conception: Toward a Model Act for No Fault Liability for Contraceptives
- Disbursement of Indemnity for Injuries Related to Reproductive Drugs and Devices: A Swedish Perspective
Issue 4
featuring
- 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Dialogue about Socratic Teaching
Examines strengths and weaknesses of the Socratic method and its effectiveness for achieving the pedagogic goals of law school.
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.
Volume 23 Issue 3
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.
Book Annotation 24.3
Toni Fme’s American Legal Systems is designed to introduce law students and students considering law school to American legal systems and to basic legal research and writing techniques (p. xv). The book certainly succeeds on that level, but it will
Comparison of the Availability of Contraceptive Methods in Selected European Countries and the United States
Comparison of pharmaceutical and non-drug forms of 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
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.
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.
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).