Towards Constitutional Recognition of the Lesbian-Parented Family
Discusses child welfare law in families with lesbian parents, while pushing for constitutional rights for non-legal lesbian parents.
The Review: Volume 26
Preview
Issue 3
featuring
- Towards Constitutional Recognition of the Lesbian-Parented Family
- Reflections on September 11: Reconsidering Social Change in the Wake of Tragedy
- Executing the Innocent: The Next Step in the Marshall Hypotheses
- Indefinite Detention without Probable Cause: A Comment on INS Interim Rule 8 C.F.R. 287.3
Issue 4
featuring
Issues 1 & 2
featuring
- Queer Law 2000--Current Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Law
- Is the Environmental Citizen Suit Dead? An Examination of the Erosion of Standards of Justiciability for Environmental Citizen Suits
- Whose Team Am I on Anyway? Musings of a Public Defender about Drug Treatment Court Practice
- Hospital Mergers and the Threat to Women's Reproductive Health Services: Applying the Antitrust Laws
In Depth Reading
Volume 26 Issue 3
Reflections on September 11: Reconsidering Social Change in the Wake of Tragedy
Discusses and predicts how the 9/11 crisis and peoples' reactions to it could have broader implication for social justice issues like foreign policy, racial profiling, and immigration.
Expanding Metropolitan Solutions through Interdisciplinarity
Questions problems of urban sprawl and analyzes policy solutions for local governments to the problems it does create, based on theories of scholar Gerald Frug.
Executing the Innocent: The Next Step in the Marshall Hypotheses
Challenges Justice Marshall's famous concurrence in Furman, arguing that empirical evidence can be used as to undermine support for the death penalty.
Volume 26 Issue 4
Rewriting History: The Use of Feminist Narratives to Deconstruct the Myth of the Capital Defendant
Using feminist theories and strategies to mitigate stereotypes of capital defendants and ensure them fairer process, especially in sentencing.
Seeds of Change: A Bibliographic Introduction to Law and Organizing
Bibliography for important sources related to law and organizing, poverty lawyering, and rebellious lawyering.
Demography and Desegregation in the Cleveland Public Schools: Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Educational Failure and Success
Using the history of Cleveland as a case study to propose school reform policies envisioned around racial and socioeconomic integration.
Volume 26 Issues 1 & 2
Hospital Mergers and the Threat to Women's Reproductive Health Services: Applying the Antitrust Laws
Suggests that the antitrust laws provide an important set oftools for those concerned about the impact of a hospital merger on repro-ductive health services.
Whose Team Am I on Anyway? Musings of a Public Defender about Drug Treatment Court Practice
Analyzes drug treatment court practices from the perspective of a criminal defense attorney practicing within one such court.
Is the Environmental Citizen Suit Dead? An Examination of the Erosion of Standards of Justiciability for Environmental Citizen Suits
Examines the deterioration of jurisdiction in federal courts for environmental citizen suits over the past twenty years, as well as new signs of a reemergence.
Queer Law 2000--Current Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Law
Conference transcript discussing legal issues relating to the LGBTQA community, including: police brutality, domestic violence, HIV/AIDS, & civil rights.