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
The Review: Volume 31
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- Planned Failure: California's Denial of Reunification Services to Parents with Mental Disabilities
- Policing Protest: Protecting Dissent and Preventing Violence through First and Fourth Amendment Law
- The Trial of Bigger Thomas: Race, Gender, and Trespass
- Police Use of Race in Suspect Descriptions: Constitutional Considerations
Issue 2
featuring
- The Asthma Crisis in Low-Income Communities of Color: Using the Law as a Tool for Promoting Public Health
- Derrick Bell's Narratives as Parables
- The Doctor Won't See You Now: Rights of Transgender Adolescents to Sex Reassignment Treatment
- Toward Gender Equality: Affirmative Action, Comparable Worth, and the Women's Movement
Issue 3
featuring
Issue 4
featuring
- Drawing the Line on Virtual Child Pornography: Bringing the Law in Line with the Research Evidence
- Free Speech Values, Hardcore Pornography and the First Amendment: A Reply to Professor Koppelman
- Democracy, Sex and the First Amendment
- It Will Take More than Parental Use of Filtering Software to Protect Children from Internet Pornography
In Depth Reading
Volume 31 Issue 1
Police Use of Race in Suspect Descriptions: Constitutional Considerations
The changing role of race in police suspect descriptions especially post 9-11, and legal challenges to its use on 4th and 14th amendment grounds.
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
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.
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 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.
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.
Volume 31 Issue 3
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.
Teaching from the Left in My Anecdotage
In the law school context, the Left can focus producing leftist policy alternatives, and helping students resist cooptation into the oppressive system.
Reconstruction of a Lost Performance through Literary Theory
Truth commissions seek to overcome limitations with criminal system by giving victims a public voice, but in fact merely shift narrative power to transcriber.
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.
Volume 31 Issue 4
Drawing the Line on Virtual Child Pornography: Bringing the Law in Line with the Research Evidence
Examines the impact of Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition on child pornography laws and reviews empirical research on pornography and its effects.
Free Speech Values, Hardcore Pornography and the First Amendment: A Reply to Professor Koppelman
Responding to Koppelman's critique, Weinstein argues he failed to address whether obscenity doctrine is aligned with larger free speech jurisprudence.
Origins of Obscenity
Overview of the origins of modern obscenity laws.
Eros, Civilization, and Harry Clor
A critical appreciation of Harry Clor's scholarship defending morals legislation and the censorship of pornography.