The Review: Volume 31

Preview

Issue 1

featuring

Planned Failure: California's Denial of Reunification Services to Parents with Mental Disabilities
Detaining Due Process: The Need for Procedural Reform in "Joseph" Hearings after Demore v. Kim
Police Use of Race in Suspect Descriptions: Constitutional Considerations
Policing Protest: Protecting Dissent and Preventing Violence through First and Fourth Amendment Law

Issue 2

featuring

The Asthma Crisis in Low-Income Communities of Color: Using the Law as a Tool for Promoting Public Health
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

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.

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.

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

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

Volume 31 Issue 2

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 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.

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.

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.

Volume 31 Issue 3

Anxiety and Affirmation: Critical Legal Studies and the Critical "Tradition(s)"

Distinguishes critical legal thought an an elaboration on critical legal studies in different contexts and is constituted by anxiety from challenging tradition.

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 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).

N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change

Legal Scholarship for Systemic Change