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.
Discussion of the benefits and challenges of a community based public defense system then looks at a case study. Concerns are also addressed.
Advice to policy makers about how to educate themselves to create effecive policy regarding the criminal defense system.
Covers the ethical issues in public defense as a result of "problem solving courts" and the rise of plea deals.
Discusses ineffective assistance of counsel cases; argues that courts need to define instances when the court's integrity is implicated.
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 monogamy and its alternatives. Imagines how law is used to encourage people to express monogamy as a preference.
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.
Brief of Amicus Curiae Fred Korematsu who challenged the constitutionality of Japanese internment.
Reviews pre and post 9/11 terrorism legislation and tensions between the three branches of government in grappling with threats to national security.
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 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
Explores the absence of state-sanctioned barriers to educational access in Latin American, segregation in Brazil and the rhetorical value of Brown v. Board.