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
- Detaining Due Process: The Need for Procedural Reform in "Joseph" Hearings after Demore v. Kim
- Policing Protest: Protecting Dissent and Preventing Violence through First and Fourth Amendment Law
- The Trial of Bigger Thomas: Race, Gender, and Trespass
- Planned Failure: California's Denial of Reunification Services to Parents with Mental Disabilities
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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).
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 Future Will Not Stop Escaping Us
Teaching tools of self-reflection is essential to creating a program of teaching from the left in the field of property and heritage law.
Volume 31 Issue 4
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.
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.
Democracy, Sex and the First Amendment
Evaluation of arguments addressing whether obscenity doctrine permitting censorship of hardcore pornography violates modern free speech jurisprudence.
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.