Taking It to the Streets
Discussion of the benefits and challenges of a community based public defense system then looks at a case study. Concerns are also addressed.
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Discussion of the benefits and challenges of a community based public defense system then looks at a case study. Concerns are also addressed.
Discusses the history and background of public defense and the strategies used in advancing it's goals then presents alternative strategies.
Looks at public defense leadership in three dimensions from very specific and local to broad and global.
Domestic income inequality is a human rights issue, and U.S. courts should use comparative and international law to enforce these rights.
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.
Argues that the educational tax exemption regime raises risks of arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement and offers a mask of objectivity.
Discusses ineffective assistance of counsel cases; argues that courts need to define instances when the court's integrity is implicated.
Discusses monogamy and its alternatives. Imagines how law is used to encourage people to express monogamy as a preference.
Brief of Amicus Curiae Fred Korematsu who challenged the constitutionality of Japanese internment.
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.
Explores the role of judges during war and the balancing of the risk of government overreach against the risk of enforcing certain constitutional rights.
Compares Japanese Internment with post 9/11 programs targeting Muslims such as the Absconder Apprehension Initiative and explores its constitutionality.
Explores the problems behind the proposed "solution" of police desegregation and focus on changing Blacks' perceptions instead of changing the police itself.
2004 NYU Review of Law and Social Change Colloquium, Keynote Address
Examines the ideological underpinnings of the Civil Rights Movement and questions whether these principles form a viable framework for shaping today's advocacy.
Explores the absence of state-sanctioned barriers to educational access in Latin American, segregation in Brazil and the rhetorical value of Brown v. Board.