Evaluating the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
A report advocating for upholding of the BCRA; focuses on banning soft money donations and issue advocacy.
The Review: Volume 28
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- Evaluating the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
- Why the Preclearance and Bailout Provisions of the Voting Rights Act Are Still a Constitutionally Proportional Remedy
- Litigating for Treatment: The Use of State Laws and Constitutions in Obtaining Treatment Rights for Individuals with Mental Illness
Issue 2
featuring
- Comments on James S. Liebman and Charles F. Sabel, a Public Laboratory Dewey Barely Imagined
- Public Laboratory Dewey Barely Imagined: The Emerging Model of School Governance and Legal Reform
- Crisis, Community, and Courts in Network Governance: A Response to Liebman and Sabel's Approach to Reform of Public Education
- Results or Retrenchment: The Real Race in American Educational Reform
Issues 3 & 4
featuring
- Introduction: The Border Crossed US: Current Issues in Immigrant Labor
- A Poisoned Field: Farmworkers, Pesticide Exposure, and Tort Recovery in an Era of Regulatory Failure
- Toward Safer Fields: Using AWPA's Working Arrangement Provisions to Enforce Health and Safety Regulations Designed to Protect Farmworkers
- Low Pay, High Risk: State Models for Advancing Immigrant Workers' Rights
In Depth Reading
Volume 28 Issue 1
Litigating for Treatment: The Use of State Laws and Constitutions in Obtaining Treatment Rights for Individuals with Mental Illness
Article exploring turning to state laws to obtain treatment rights for the mentally ill; focuses on the right-to-treatment movement.
Why the Preclearance and Bailout Provisions of the Voting Rights Act Are Still a Constitutionally Proportional Remedy
VRA has been subject to narrowing through recent Supreme Court cases, but certain provsiion of the Act are within Constitutional bounds .
Volume 28 Issue 2
Standards-Based Educational Reforms: Progress, but Enough to Sustain Momentum
economics effect on school reform; incentive based reform; a look at Boston Public Schools
Brown Is Not Brown and Educational Reform Is Not Reform If Integration Is Not a Goal
Link between housing and school segregation; need to talk about racism and its role in school reform
Making Accountability Work
reforming schools by having greater involvement is staff selection and increased focus on reading curriculum
Details, Details, Details
Performance-based accountability systems increasing student performance associated with low-performing student populations; Retention and drop out issues
Volume 28 Issues 3 & 4
Low Pay, High Risk: State Models for Advancing Immigrant Workers' Rights
An overview of the type of work that immigrants do and It's dangers looking at state and federal protections of these workers.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights Defines Unauthorized Migrant Workers' Rights for the Hemisphere: A Comment on Advisory Opinion 18
Comentary on Adisory Opinion 18 and the benefit it serves to immigrants both in the US and abroad
Introduction: The Border Crossed US: Current Issues in Immigrant Labor
Immigrants face long hours, low pay, poor working conditions, and deportation threat. Evidence of immigration enforcement involvement in labor disputes in NYC
Building Power among Low-Wage Immigrant Workers: Some Legal Considerations for Organizing Structures and Strategies
increased restrictions on the legal rights of undocumented workers; need for collective action; workers centers, unions, and alternative models