Alternative Strategies for Public Defenders and Assigned Counsel
Discusses the history and background of public defense and the strategies used in advancing it's goals then presents alternative strategies.
The Review: Volume 29
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- Alternative Strategies for Public Defenders and Assigned Counsel
- The Best Defense Is No Offense: Preventing Crime through Effective Public Defense
- What Policy-Makers Need to Know to Improve Indigent Defense Systems
- From Day One: Who's in Control as Problem Solving and Client-Centered Sentencing Take Center Stage
Issue 2
featuring
- Monogamy's Law: Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence
- Protecting the Integrity of the Court: Trial Court Responsibility for Preventing Ineffective Assistance of Counsel in Criminal Cases
- Flunking the Methodology Test: A Flawed Tax-Exemption Standard for Educational Organizations That Advocate a Particular Position or Viewpoint
- The Subordination of Subsidized Guardianship in Child Welfare Proceedings
Issue 3
featuring
- The Role of Courts in Time of War
- Pressing Public Necessity: The Unconstitutionality of the Absconder Apprehension Initiative
- You Say Defendant, I Say Combatant: Opportunistic Treatment of Terrorism Suspects Held in the United States and the Need for Due Process
- Shafiq Rasul, et al., Petitioners v. George W. Bush et al., Respondents and Khaled A.F. Al Odahet et al., Peititoners v. U.S., et. al.. Respondents - Brief of Amicus Curiae Fred Korematsu in Support of Petitioners
Issue 4
featuring
- Relearning Brown: Applying the Lessons of Brown to the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
- Fifty Years after Brown, the Civil Rights Ideology and Today's Movement
- The Crime Drop and the Fourth Amendment: Toward an Empirical Jurisprudence of Search and Seizure
- Officer or Overseer: Why Police Desegregation Fails as an Adequate Solution to Racist, Oppressive, and Violent Policing in Black Communities
In Depth Reading
Volume 29 Issue 1
Introduction
Judges, practitioners, and law professors should collaborate to improve the justice system.
From Day One: Who's in Control as Problem Solving and Client-Centered Sentencing Take Center Stage
Covers the ethical issues in public defense as a result of "problem solving courts" and the rise of plea deals.
The Best Defense Is No Offense: Preventing Crime through Effective Public Defense
Public defense's public perception and ability to be effective and reduce crime in communities.
Volume 29 Issue 2
Monogamy's Law: Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence
Discusses monogamy and its alternatives. Imagines how law is used to encourage people to express monogamy as a preference.
Protecting the Integrity of the Court: Trial Court Responsibility for Preventing Ineffective Assistance of Counsel in Criminal Cases
Discusses ineffective assistance of counsel cases; argues that courts need to define instances when the court's integrity is implicated.
The Subordination of Subsidized Guardianship in Child Welfare Proceedings
A discussion of several policy and social issues within the adoption and foster care systems and their effects on these systems and the children within them.
Flunking the Methodology Test: A Flawed Tax-Exemption Standard for Educational Organizations That Advocate a Particular Position or Viewpoint
Argues that the educational tax exemption regime raises risks of arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement and offers a mask of objectivity.
Volume 29 Issue 3
Pressing Public Necessity: The Unconstitutionality of the Absconder Apprehension Initiative
Compares Japanese Internment with post 9/11 programs targeting Muslims such as the Absconder Apprehension Initiative and explores its constitutionality.
Civil Liberties during National Emergencies: The Interactions between the Three Branches of Government in Coping with Past and Current Threats to the Nation's Security
Reviews pre and post 9/11 terrorism legislation and tensions between the three branches of government in grappling with threats to national security.
The Role of Courts in Time of War
Explores the role of judges during war and the balancing of the risk of government overreach against the risk of enforcing certain constitutional rights.
You Say Defendant, I Say Combatant: Opportunistic Treatment of Terrorism Suspects Held in the United States and the Need for Due Process
Explores the vocabulary used in the war on terror and how it reflects the indecision of the executive branch on what to call terrorism suspects.
Volume 29 Issue 4
Relearning Brown: Applying the Lessons of Brown to the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
2004 NYU Review of Law and Social Change Colloquium, Keynote Address
To Be Brown in Brazil: Education and Segregation Latin American Style
Explores the absence of state-sanctioned barriers to educational access in Latin American, segregation in Brazil and the rhetorical value of Brown v. Board.
Officer or Overseer: Why Police Desegregation Fails as an Adequate Solution to Racist, Oppressive, and Violent Policing in Black Communities
Explores the problems behind the proposed "solution" of police desegregation and focus on changing Blacks' perceptions instead of changing the police itself.
The Crime Drop and the Fourth Amendment: Toward an Empirical Jurisprudence of Search and Seizure
Argues that the Court must confront the reality of inner-city crime in its search and seizure jurisprudence and take into account crime statistics.