Cultural Revolution: Transforming the Public Defender's Office
A discussion of how to transform the culture public defender offices to have a more holistic, client-centered vision.
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A discussion of how to transform the culture public defender offices to have a more holistic, client-centered vision.
Discusses the history and background of public defense and the strategies used in advancing it's goals then presents alternative strategies.
Judges, practitioners, and law professors should collaborate to improve the justice system.
Domestic income inequality is a human rights issue, and U.S. courts should use comparative and international law to enforce these rights.
Discusses monogamy and its alternatives. Imagines how law is used to encourage people to express monogamy as a preference.
Argues that the educational tax exemption regime raises risks of arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement and offers a mask of objectivity.
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.
Discusses ineffective assistance of counsel cases; argues that courts need to define instances when the court's integrity is implicated.
Compares Japanese Internment with post 9/11 programs targeting Muslims such as the Absconder Apprehension Initiative and explores its constitutionality.
Reviews pre and post 9/11 terrorism legislation and tensions between the three branches of government in grappling with threats to national security.
Explores the role of judges during war and the balancing of the risk of government overreach against the risk of enforcing certain constitutional rights.
Brief of Amicus Curiae Fred Korematsu who challenged the constitutionality of Japanese internment.
Explores the problems behind the proposed "solution" of police desegregation and focus on changing Blacks' perceptions instead of changing the police itself.
Explores the absence of state-sanctioned barriers to educational access in Latin American, segregation in Brazil and the rhetorical value of Brown v. Board.
Examines the ideological underpinnings of the Civil Rights Movement and questions whether these principles form a viable framework for shaping today's advocacy.
Argues that the Court must confront the reality of inner-city crime in its search and seizure jurisprudence and take into account crime statistics.