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
- 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)
- Why the Preclearance and Bailout Provisions of the Voting Rights Act Are Still a Constitutionally Proportional Remedy
Issue 2
featuring
Issues 3 & 4
featuring
- Building Power among Low-Wage Immigrant Workers: Some Legal Considerations for Organizing Structures and Strategies
- 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
- 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
Comments on Liebman and Sabel: A Public Laboratory Dewey Barely Imagined
accountability reforms; standards and regular assessment of student performance; critique of NCLB teaching to the test and whether this is positive or negative
Comments on James S. Liebman and Charles F. Sabel, a Public Laboratory Dewey Barely Imagined
nationwide systemic school reform; obstacles to school reform;
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
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
Toward Safer Fields: Using AWPA's Working Arrangement Provisions to Enforce Health and Safety Regulations Designed to Protect Farmworkers
Description of the harms and dangers to farmworkers because of the underenforcement of EPA and OSHA and why to support the AWPA's private right of action.
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.