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 Review: Volume 29
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- Keeping Gideon's Promise: A Comparison of the American and Israeli Public Defender Experiences
- From Day One: Who's in Control as Problem Solving and Client-Centered Sentencing Take Center Stage
- Bolder Management for Public Defense: Leadership in Three Dimensions
- The Best Defense Is No Offense: Preventing Crime through Effective Public Defense
Issue 2
featuring
- Flunking the Methodology Test: A Flawed Tax-Exemption Standard for Educational Organizations That Advocate a Particular Position or Viewpoint
- 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
- The Subordination of Subsidized Guardianship in Child Welfare Proceedings
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
- The Role of Courts in Time of War
- 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
Issue 4
featuring
- Fifty Years after Brown, the Civil Rights Ideology and Today's Movement
- To Be Brown in Brazil: Education and Segregation Latin American Style
- Relearning Brown: Applying the Lessons of Brown to the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
- 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Volume 29 Issue 4
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.
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.
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.
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.