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
- Police Use of Race in Suspect Descriptions: Constitutional Considerations
- Detaining Due Process: The Need for Procedural Reform in Joseph Hearings after Demore v. Kim
- Trial of Bigger Thomas: Race, Gender, and Trespass, The
- Policing Protest: Protecting Dissent and Preventing Violence through First and Fourth Amendment Law
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
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
Trial of Bigger Thomas: Race, Gender, and Trespass, The
The amorphous nature of the law-and-literature discipline contributes to its value, as demonstrated by the novel Native Son by Bigger Thomas
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
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
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
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
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.
Notes on the General Economy of International Law &(and) Governance
Absent flag-positions of "left" and "right" as the bases of our arguements, decision-making and political expression deform and become general indecision.
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
Left: In Memoriam, The
Teaching from the left is urging students to engage in historical evolution of left thought deploying reason to improve human tradition.
Volume 31 Issue 4
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.
Democracy, Sex and the First Amendment
Evaluation of arguments addressing whether obscenity doctrine permitting censorship of hardcore pornography violates modern free speech jurisprudence.
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.