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
- 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
Issue 2
featuring
- Derrick Bell's Narratives as Parables
- 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
Issue 3
featuring
In Depth Reading
Volume 31 Issue 1
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
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
Volume 31 Issue 2
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.
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
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.
You Will Never Finish Paying: Contract and Regulation, Globalization and Control
Teaching from the left in contract law requires awareness of its partiality and evolution in the context of globalization that increases social stratification
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.
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 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.
All Porn All the Time
Pornography has become central to our culture, in large part due to technological innovation, requiring us to reassess our approach to its legal regulation.
Democracy, Sex and the First Amendment
Evaluation of arguments addressing whether obscenity doctrine permitting censorship of hardcore pornography violates modern 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.