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
The Review: Volume 31
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- 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
- Police Use of Race in Suspect Descriptions: Constitutional Considerations
- The Trial of Bigger Thomas: Race, Gender, and Trespass
Issue 2
featuring
- 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
- 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
Issue 3
featuring
In Depth Reading
Volume 31 Issue 1
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Legal Education and the Formation of Professional Identity: A Critical Spirituo-humanistic - "Humanity Consciousness" - Perspective
Traditional legal education is alienating. Reform legal education to account for emotional, ethical, and practical implications of law in people's lives.
Notes on the General Economy of International Law & Governance
Absent flag-positions of "left" and "right" as the bases of our arguements, decision-making and political expression deform and become general indecision.
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.
Democracy, Sex and the First Amendment
Evaluation of arguments addressing whether obscenity doctrine permitting censorship of hardcore pornography violates modern free speech jurisprudence.
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.
Free Speech and Pornography: A Response to James Weinstein
Contrary to the argument advanced by James Weinstein, the suppression of pornography infringes on values that lie at the heart of free speech.