The Review: Volume 31

Preview

Issue 1

featuring

Detaining Due Process: The Need for Procedural Reform in "Joseph" Hearings after Demore v. Kim
The Trial of Bigger Thomas: Race, Gender, and Trespass
Policing Protest: Protecting Dissent and Preventing Violence through First and Fourth Amendment Law
Police Use of Race in Suspect Descriptions: Constitutional Considerations

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
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

In Depth Reading

Volume 31 Issue 1

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.

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 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

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.

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.

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.

Notes on the General Economy of International Law & Governance

Absent flag-positions of "left" and "right" as the bases of our arguements, decision-making and political expression deform and become general indecision.

The Anxiety of the Law Student at the Socratic Impasse - An Essay on Reductionism in Legal Education

Legal teaching has a limiting, centralizing, homogenizing tendency. Professors should not present techniques and doctrine as established truths.

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).

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

Legal Scholarship for Systemic Change