The Review: Volume 31

Preview

Issue 2

featuring

Toward Gender Equality: Affirmative Action, Comparable Worth, and the Women's Movement
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
Derrick Bell's Narratives as Parables

In Depth Reading

Volume 31 Issue 1

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Law as Trauma & Repetition

A meditation on the transference of trauma within the legal system.

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.

N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change

Legal Scholarship for Systemic Change