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.
The Review: Volume 31Issue 1
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.
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.
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
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
Other Issues in this Volume
Issue 2
featuring
- Derrick Bell's Narratives as Parables
- 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
- Toward Gender Equality: Affirmative Action, Comparable Worth, and the Women's Movement
Issue 3
featuring
- The Other Side of the Picket Line: Contract, Democracy, and Power in a Law School Classroom
- The Anxiety of the Law Student at the Socratic Impasse - An Essay on Reductionism in Legal Education
- Left Learning: Theory and Practice in Teaching from the Left in Law School
- Legal Education and the Formation of Professional Identity: A Critical Spirituo-humanistic - "Humanity Consciousness" - Perspective
Issue 4
featuring
- Free Speech and Pornography: A Response to James Weinstein
- Drawing the Line on Virtual Child Pornography: Bringing the Law in Line with the Research Evidence
- Free Speech Values, Hardcore Pornography and the First Amendment: A Reply to Professor Koppelman
- It Will Take More than Parental Use of Filtering Software to Protect Children from Internet Pornography