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.
The Review: Volume 29
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- Keeping Gideon's Promise: A Comparison of the American and Israeli Public Defender Experiences
- Alternative Strategies for Public Defenders and Assigned Counsel
- The Best Defense Is No Offense: Preventing Crime through Effective Public Defense
- Bolder Management for Public Defense: Leadership in Three Dimensions
Issue 2
featuring
- 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
- The Subordination of Subsidized Guardianship in Child Welfare Proceedings
Issue 3
featuring
- 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
- 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
- Fifty Years after Brown, the Civil Rights Ideology and Today's Movement
- Officer or Overseer: Why Police Desegregation Fails as an Adequate Solution to Racist, Oppressive, and Violent Policing in Black Communities
- Relearning Brown: Applying the Lessons of Brown to the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
- To Be Brown in Brazil: Education and Segregation Latin American Style
In Depth Reading
Volume 29 Issue 1
Keeping Gideon's Promise: A Comparison of the American and Israeli Public Defender Experiences
A history of the US and Israeli public defense systems and a comparison between the two.
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 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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Brief of Amicus Curiae Fred Korematsu who challenged the constitutionality of Japanese internment.
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.
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.
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.
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.