What Policy-Makers Need to Know to Improve Indigent Defense Systems
Advice to policy makers about how to educate themselves to create effecive policy regarding the criminal defense system.
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Advice to policy makers about how to educate themselves to create effecive policy regarding the criminal defense system.
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.
Discussion of the benefits and challenges of a community based public defense system then looks at a case study. Concerns are also addressed.
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 ineffective assistance of counsel cases; argues that courts need to define instances when the court's integrity is implicated.
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.
Brief of Amicus Curiae Fred Korematsu who challenged the constitutionality of Japanese internment.
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.
2004 NYU Review of Law and Social Change Colloquium, Keynote Address
Argues that the Court must confront the reality of inner-city crime in its search and seizure jurisprudence and take into account crime statistics.
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 absence of state-sanctioned barriers to educational access in Latin American, segregation in Brazil and the rhetorical value of Brown v. Board.