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
Issues 3 & 4
featuring
- Toward Safer Fields: Using AWPA's Working Arrangement Provisions to Enforce Health and Safety Regulations Designed to Protect Farmworkers
- 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
- The Inter-American Court of Human Rights Defines Unauthorized Migrant Workers' Rights for the Hemisphere: A Comment on Advisory Opinion 18
In Depth Reading
Volume 28 Issue 1
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 .
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.
Volume 28 Issue 2
School Reform outside Laboratory Conditions
school reform as democratic experimentalism; local solutions; need for more community dialogue, practical problems, and normative debate
Results or Retrenchment: The Real Race in American Educational Reform
Collective action by courts, legislatures, administrative agencies and citizens; accountability and adequacy; Kentucky and Texas; race to the top
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
Public Laboratory Dewey Barely Imagined: The Emerging Model of School Governance and Legal Reform
Legal strategies for school reform; desegregation and school finance litigation; Past reform cycles; Constitutional obligations and remedies; federal NCLB Act
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.
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