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.
Covers the ethical issues in public defense as a result of "problem solving courts" and the rise of plea deals.
Discusses the history and background of public defense and the strategies used in advancing it's goals then presents alternative strategies.
Public defense's public perception and ability to be effective and reduce crime in communities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Explores the role of judges during war and the balancing of the risk of government overreach against the risk of enforcing certain constitutional rights.
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.
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