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
- 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
- Evaluating the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Issue 2
featuring
- Comments on Liebman and Sabel: A Public Laboratory Dewey Barely Imagined
- Public Laboratory Dewey Barely Imagined: The Emerging Model of School Governance and Legal Reform
- Response to a Public Laboratory Dewey Barely Imagined: The Emerging Model of School Governance and Legal Reform
- A New Constitutionalism for Liberals
Issues 3 & 4
featuring
- Introduction: The Border Crossed US: Current Issues in Immigrant Labor
- The Inter-American Court of Human Rights Defines Unauthorized Migrant Workers' Rights for the Hemisphere: A Comment on Advisory Opinion 18
- Building Power among Low-Wage Immigrant Workers: Some Legal Considerations for Organizing Structures and Strategies
- 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
Response to a Public Laboratory Dewey Barely Imagined: The Emerging Model of School Governance and Legal Reform
critique of Kentucky Reform for school reforms; teaching to the test issues and study based off ACT tests
Comments on James S. Liebman and Charles F. Sabel, a Public Laboratory Dewey Barely Imagined
nationwide systemic school reform; obstacles to school reform;
School Reform outside Laboratory Conditions
school reform as democratic experimentalism; local solutions; need for more community dialogue, practical problems, and normative debate
Making Accountability Work
reforming schools by having greater involvement is staff selection and increased focus on reading curriculum
Volume 28 Issues 3 & 4
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
A Poisoned Field: Farmworkers, Pesticide Exposure, and Tort Recovery in an Era of Regulatory Failure
Overview of the failed administrative regulation of pesticides and resulting tort actions
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
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