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
The Review: Volume 31
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- Trial of Bigger Thomas: Race, Gender, and Trespass, The
- 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
- Police Use of Race in Suspect Descriptions: Constitutional Considerations
Issue 2
featuring
- 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, The
- Toward Gender Equality: Affirmative Action, Comparable Worth, and the Women's Movement
- Derrick Bell's Narratives as Parables
Issue 3
featuring
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
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
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
Doctor Won't See You Now: Rights of Transgender Adolescents to Sex Reassignment Treatment, The
Advocates should use existing medical protocols and legal doctrines to assist transgender adolescents in accessing necessary sex reassignment treatment
Asthma Crisis in Low-Income Communities of Color: Using the Law as a Tool for Promoting Public Health, The
Disparaties 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. Concludes they were complementary.
Volume 31 Issue 3
View from the Left: International Economic Law, A
When teaching international economic law it is essential to address "common sense" notions and how they inform students' ideas and approaches.
Anxiety of the Law Student at the Socratic Impasse - An Essay on Reductionism in Legal Education, The
Legal teaching has a limiting, centralizing, homogenizing tendency. Professors should not present techniques and doctrine as established truths.
Other Side of the Picket Line: Contract, Democracy, and Power in a Law School Classroom, The
Recounts author's experience of reshaping his contracts class around discussing a custodial workers' strike at the school that was happening at the time
Legal Education and the Formation of Professional Identity: A Critical Spirituohumanistic - Humanity Consciousness - Perspective
Traditional legal education is alienating. Reform legal education to account for emotional,ethical, and practical implications of law in people's lives
Volume 31 Issue 4
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.
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.
Eros, Civilization, and Harry Clor
A critical appreciation of Harry Clor's scholarship defending morals legislation and the censorship of pornography.
Origins of Obscenity
Overview of the origins of modern obscenity laws.