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
- Police Use of Race in Suspect Descriptions: Constitutional Considerations
- Policing Protest: Protecting Dissent and Preventing Violence through First and Fourth Amendment Law
- 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
Issue 2
featuring
- The Asthma Crisis in Low-Income Communities of Color: Using the Law as a Tool for Promoting Public Health
- Derrick Bell's Narratives as Parables
- 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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Left Learning: Theory and Practice in Teaching from the Left in Law School
Depoliticized legal education is disconnected from politicized reality. Leftist education must help students be critical thinkers to enable institutional change.
Volume 31 Issue 4
Origins of Obscenity
Overview of the origins of modern obscenity laws.
Eros, Civilization, and Harry Clor
A critical appreciation of Harry Clor's scholarship defending morals legislation and the censorship of pornography.
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.
Democracy, Sex and the First Amendment
Evaluation of arguments addressing whether obscenity doctrine permitting censorship of hardcore pornography violates modern free speech jurisprudence.