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
- Planned Failure: California's Denial of Reunification Services to Parents with Mental Disabilities
- The Trial of Bigger Thomas: Race, Gender, and Trespass
- 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
Issue 2
featuring
- Toward Gender Equality: Affirmative Action, Comparable Worth, and the Women's Movement
- 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
- 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
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.
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
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
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.
One, Two, Three, Many Legal Orders: Legal Pluralism and the Cosmopolitan Dream
Legal pluralism is good for professional moral health and pluralism of professional perspective allows us to put aside quesitons about the unified nature of the legal order and focus on projects of identity, power and ethics.
A View From the Left: International Economic Law
When teaching international economic law it is essential to address "common sense" notions and how they inform students' ideas and approaches.
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).
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.
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.
All Porn All the Time
Pornography has become central to our culture, in large part due to technological innovation, requiring us to reassess our approach to its legal regulation.