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.
The Review: Volume 29
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
Issue 2
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- The Subordination of Subsidized Guardianship in Child Welfare Proceedings
- Monogamy's Law: Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence
- Flunking the Methodology Test: A Flawed Tax-Exemption Standard for Educational Organizations That Advocate a Particular Position or Viewpoint
- Protecting the Integrity of the Court: Trial Court Responsibility for Preventing Ineffective Assistance of Counsel in Criminal Cases
Issue 3
featuring
- 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
- 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
- You Say Defendant, I Say Combatant: Opportunistic Treatment of Terrorism Suspects Held in the United States and the Need for Due Process
- Pressing Public Necessity: The Unconstitutionality of the Absconder Apprehension Initiative
Issue 4
featuring
- To Be Brown in Brazil: Education and Segregation Latin American Style
- Officer or Overseer: Why Police Desegregation Fails as an Adequate Solution to Racist, Oppressive, and Violent Policing in Black Communities
- The Crime Drop and the Fourth Amendment: Toward an Empirical Jurisprudence of Search and Seizure
- Relearning Brown: Applying the Lessons of Brown to the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
In Depth Reading
Volume 29 Issue 1
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.
Bolder Management for Public Defense: Leadership in Three Dimensions
Looks at public defense leadership in three dimensions from very specific and local to broad and global.
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.
Volume 29 Issue 2
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.
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.
Volume 29 Issue 3
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.
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.
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.
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.
Volume 29 Issue 4
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.
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.
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
Fifty Years after Brown, the Civil Rights Ideology and Today's Movement
Examines the ideological underpinnings of the Civil Rights Movement and questions whether these principles form a viable framework for shaping today's advocacy.