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
- Detaining Due Process: The Need for Procedural Reform in "Joseph" Hearings after Demore v. Kim
- Police Use of Race in Suspect Descriptions: Constitutional Considerations
- 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
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.
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
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
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.
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 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
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.
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.
The Left: In Memoriam
Teaching from the left is urging students to engage in historical evolution of left thought deploying reason to improve human tradition.
The Spirit of 1968: Toward Abolishing Terry Doctrine
Calls for abolishment of Terry doctrine and advocates probable cause standard for police stops instead of reasonable suspicion.
Volume 31 Issue 4
Eros, Civilization, and Harry Clor
A critical appreciation of Harry Clor's scholarship defending morals legislation and the censorship of pornography.
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.
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.