The Trial of Bigger Thomas: Race, Gender, and Trespass
The amorphous nature of the law-and-literature discipline contributes to its value, as demonstrated by the novel Native Son by Richard Wright.
The Review: Volume 31
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- The Trial of Bigger Thomas: Race, Gender, and Trespass
- Police Use of Race in Suspect Descriptions: Constitutional Considerations
- Policing Protest: Protecting Dissent and Preventing Violence through First and Fourth Amendment Law
- Detaining Due Process: The Need for Procedural Reform in "Joseph" Hearings after Demore v. Kim
Issue 2
featuring
- Toward Gender Equality: Affirmative Action, Comparable Worth, and the Women's Movement
- The Doctor Won't See You Now: Rights of Transgender Adolescents to Sex Reassignment Treatment
- Derrick Bell's Narratives as Parables
- The Asthma Crisis in Low-Income Communities of Color: Using the Law as a Tool for Promoting Public Health
Issue 3
featuring
- The Paradox of Hierarchy - or Why We Always Choose the Tools of the Master's House
- One, Two, Three, Many Legal Orders: Legal Pluralism and the Cosmopolitan Dream
- Legal Education and the Formation of Professional Identity: A Critical Spirituo-humanistic - "Humanity Consciousness" - Perspective
- Teaching from the Left in My Anecdotage
In Depth Reading
Volume 31 Issue 1
Policing Protest: Protecting Dissent and Preventing Violence through First and Fourth Amendment Law
A comprehensive analysis of police response to public protests requires the courts consider the interplay between the 1st and 4th amendment rights.
Planned Failure: California's Denial of Reunification Services to Parents with Mental Disabilities
California's reunification bypass law fails to accurately determine if a mentally disabled parent may use such services, and does more harm than good
Detaining Due Process: The Need for Procedural Reform in "Joseph" Hearings after Demore v. Kim
The impact of Demore v. Kim on immigration decisions, deportations, and procedural reform in Joseph hearings
Volume 31 Issue 2
Derrick Bell's Narratives as Parables
Legal narratives, like the literary works of Derrick Bell on race, function as parables in providing new knowledge and insights, contributing to legal debates.
The Doctor Won't See You Now: Rights of Transgender Adolescents to Sex Reassignment Treatment
Advocates should use existing medical protocols and legal doctrines to assist transgender adolescents in accessing necessary sex reassignment treatment.
Toward Gender Equality: Affirmative Action, Comparable Worth, and the Women's Movement
Compares efficacy of affirmative action and comparable worth as different strategies in advancing women's employment rights.
The Asthma Crisis in Low-Income Communities of Color: Using the Law as a Tool for Promoting Public Health
Disparities in the asthma epidemic fall along racial and socio-economic lines, and legal advocacy can play a crucial role in combatting the issue.
Volume 31 Issue 3
The Left: In Memoriam
Teaching from the left is urging students to engage in historical evolution of left thought deploying reason to improve human tradition.
Left Learning: Theory and Practice in Teaching from the Left in Law School
Depoliticized legal education is disconnected from politicized reality. Leftist education must help students be critical thinkers to enable institutional change.
The Other Side of the Picket Line: Contract, Democracy, and Power in a Law School Classroom
Recounts author's experience of reshaping his contracts class around discussing a custodial workers' strike at the school that was happening at the time.
The Paradox of Hierarchy - or Why We Always Choose the Tools of the Master's House
The nature of legal education creates a paradox for leftist professors, who are forced to either use existing legal tools to change the system from within (activism) or move outside the existing legal system altogether (revolution).
Volume 31 Issue 4
It Will Take More than Parental Use of Filtering Software to Protect Children from Internet Pornography
Argues the need for enforceable laws requiring commercial pornography providers to restrict children's access to pornography on the internet.
Origins of Obscenity
Overview of the origins of modern obscenity laws.
Possessing Pollution
The metaphor of "moral pollution" was used by the Supreme Court to refashion obscenity regulations as public interest regulations.
All Porn All the Time
Pornography has become central to our culture, in large part due to technological innovation, requiring us to reassess our approach to its legal regulation.