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.
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A history of the US and Israeli public defense systems and a comparison between the two.
Discusses the history and background of public defense and the strategies used in advancing it's goals then presents alternative strategies.
Domestic income inequality is a human rights issue, and U.S. courts should use comparative and international law to enforce these rights.
Public defense's public perception and ability to be effective and reduce crime in communities.
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.
Discusses ineffective assistance of counsel cases; argues that courts need to define instances when the court's integrity is implicated.
Argues that the educational tax exemption regime raises risks of arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement and offers a mask of objectivity.
Compares Japanese Internment with post 9/11 programs targeting Muslims such as the Absconder Apprehension Initiative and explores its constitutionality.
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.
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 absence of state-sanctioned barriers to educational access in Latin American, segregation in Brazil and the rhetorical value of Brown v. Board.
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