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 Review: Volume 23Issue 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.
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.
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.
Other Issues in this Volume
Issue 1
featuring
- The Heart of Equal Protection: Education and Race
- 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
Issue 3
featuring
- Tort Liability and the Availability of Contraceptive Drugs and Devices in the United States
- Introduction
- Disbursement of Indemnity for Injuries Related to Reproductive Drugs and Devices: A Swedish Perspective
- Protecting Consumers, Prodding Companies, and Preventing Conception: Toward a Model Act for No Fault Liability for Contraceptives
Issue 4
featuring
- The Role of Race in Child Custody Decisions between Natural Parents over Biracial Children
- 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