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 Review: Volume 31
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- Detaining Due Process: The Need for Procedural Reform in "Joseph" Hearings after Demore v. Kim
- Planned Failure: California's Denial of Reunification Services to Parents with Mental Disabilities
- The Trial of Bigger Thomas: Race, Gender, and Trespass
- Policing Protest: Protecting Dissent and Preventing Violence through First and Fourth Amendment Law
Issue 2
featuring
- Toward Gender Equality: Affirmative Action, Comparable Worth, and the Women's Movement
- Derrick Bell's Narratives as Parables
- The Doctor Won't See You Now: Rights of Transgender Adolescents to Sex Reassignment Treatment
- The Asthma Crisis in Low-Income Communities of Color: Using the Law as a Tool for Promoting Public Health
Issue 3
featuring
In Depth Reading
Volume 31 Issue 1
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Urgent Times
This generation should form a "People's Movement" as a response to right wing domination and the many urgent problems of our time.
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.
Pedagogy of the Suppressed: A Class on Race and the Death Penalty
Even traditional law school pedagogy of reading opinions can facilitate progressive insights when doctrine is contextualized and underlying values are exposed.
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.
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.
Origins of Obscenity
Overview of the origins of modern obscenity laws.
Democracy, Sex and the First Amendment
Evaluation of arguments addressing whether obscenity doctrine permitting censorship of hardcore pornography violates modern free speech jurisprudence.