Introduction
Judges, practitioners, and law professors should collaborate to improve the justice system.
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Judges, practitioners, and law professors should collaborate to improve the justice system.
A discussion of how to transform the culture public defender offices to have a more holistic, client-centered vision.
Covers the ethical issues in public defense as a result of "problem solving courts" and the rise of plea deals.
Looks at public defense leadership in three dimensions from very specific and local to broad and global.
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.
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.
Explores the role of judges during war and the balancing of the risk of government overreach against the risk of enforcing certain constitutional rights.
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.
Reviews pre and post 9/11 terrorism legislation and tensions between the three branches of government in grappling with threats to national security.
Brief of Amicus Curiae Fred Korematsu who challenged the constitutionality of Japanese internment.
Explores the absence of state-sanctioned barriers to educational access in Latin American, segregation in Brazil and the rhetorical value of Brown v. Board.
Argues that the Court must confront the reality of inner-city crime in its search and seizure jurisprudence and take into account crime statistics.
2004 NYU Review of Law and Social Change Colloquium, Keynote Address
Examines the ideological underpinnings of the Civil Rights Movement and questions whether these principles form a viable framework for shaping today's advocacy.