Barred from Bankruptcy: Recently Incarcerated Debtors In and Outside Bankruptcy
Recently incarcerated individuals with lots of debt are often unable to discharge debt through bankruptcy. Bankruptcy should be more widely available to them.
The Review: Volume 34
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- Because of Intersex: Intersexuality, Title VII, and the Reality of Discrimination "Because of . . . (Perceived) Sex"
- Barred from Bankruptcy: Recently Incarcerated Debtors In and Outside Bankruptcy
- Law Enforcement and Intelligence Gathering in Muslim and Immigrant Communities After 9/11
- Teach Your Children Well: Proposed Challenges to Inadequacies of Correctional Special Education for Juvenile Inmates
Issue 2
featuring
- A Penny Saved Can Be a Penalty Earned: Nursing Homes, Medicaid Planning, the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, and The Problem of Transferring Assets
- Using Laws Designed to Protect as a Weapon: Prosecuting Minors under Child Pornography Laws
- Gay-Straight Alliances and Sanctioning Pretextual Discrimination under the Equal Access Act
- Using Laws Designed to Protect as a Weapon: Prosecuting Minors under Child Pornography Laws
Issue 3
featuring
Issue 4
featuring
- Ain't I a Parent: The Exclusion of Kinship Caregivers from the Debate over Expansions of Parenthood
- Intra-Group Preferencing: Proving Skin Color and Identity Performance Discrimination
- Sex on the Brain: Adolescent Psychosocial Science and Sanctions for Risky Sex
- Debts, Disasters, and Delinquencies: A Case for Placing a Mandatory Force Majeure Provision into Consumer Credit Agreements
In Depth Reading
Volume 34 Issue 1
Because of Intersex: Intersexuality, Title VII, and the Reality of Discrimination "Because of . . . (Perceived) Sex"
As our comprehension of sex progresses towards an acknowledgment of its social construction, our interpretation of the protections provided by the phrase"because of ... sex" in Title VII should do the same.
Law Enforcement and Intelligence Gathering in Muslim and Immigrant Communities After 9/11
Just because the law says that police can use informants at almost any time, in any setting, does not mean that they should do so.
Teach Your Children Well: Proposed Challenges to Inadequacies of Correctional Special Education for Juvenile Inmates
Juvenile inmates incarcerated as adults may be legally deprived of their freedom, but they should not also be deprived of an education tailored to their educational disabilities.
Volume 34 Issue 2
Using Laws Designed to Protect as a Weapon: Prosecuting Minors under Child Pornography Laws
The law should have a fine-tuned distinction between different types of child-produced child pornography; in certain instances, we serve children better by acknowledging their rights and allowing their speech rather than silencing expressions of their sexuality.
Gay-Straight Alliances and Sanctioning Pretextual Discrimination under the Equal Access Act
Rather than protecting LGBTQ student organizations, the EAA safe harbor provisions could be used to legitimize private discrimination and further marginalize LGBTQ students.
Using Laws Designed to Protect as a Weapon: Prosecuting Minors under Child Pornography Laws
The law should have a fine-tuned distinction between different types of child-produced child pornography; in certain instances, we serve children better by acknowledging their rights and allowing their speech rather than silencing expressions of their sexuality.
A Penny Saved Can Be a Penalty Earned: Nursing Homes, Medicaid Planning, the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, and The Problem of Transferring Assets
Deficit Reduction Act makes it difficult for senior citizens to transfer assets and qualify for Medicaid; analyzes whether intended purpose is served by this.
Volume 34 Issue 3
From Page to Practice and Back Again: Broken Windows Policing and the Real Costs to Law-Abiding New Yorkers of Color
My theory, and the theory behind Broken Lives from Broken Windows, is that the combined economic and legitimacy costs of aggressively policing minor offenses undermine the efficacy of policing social order to reduce crime.
The Human Lawyer
Humans are frail, weak, irrational, and insecure. But they are also beautiful, kind, thoughtful, and strong. At their worst, they are automatic flesh robots. At their best, they are dynamic, biological thinking machines.So what is the law student? She is
From Page to Practice: An Introduction
Now, just as in 1969, Social Change remains committed to providing a forum for progressive legal thought and to promoting work that bridges the gaps between page and practice.
Looking Forward to Forty More Years of Movement Building: Meditations on From Page to Practice
Institutions like Social Change can play an important role in this-providing a forum for sharing ideas and strategies, questioning prevailing wisdom, and reminding us of the importance of bringing the ideas on the page to practice.
Volume 34 Issue 4
Ain't I a Parent: The Exclusion of Kinship Caregivers from the Debate over Expansions of Parenthood
Indeed, to the degree that marriage creates, protects, and privileges families-and inevitably defines parenthood-kinship caregiving families who depart from the marital norm continue to suffer from marginalization, exclusion, and stigma.
Sex on the Brain: Adolescent Psychosocial Science and Sanctions for Risky Sex
In the end, the legal system's most productive role in addressing this public health crisis may be a legislative and executive, not a punitive, one: to create and fund programs designed to increase teen self-efficacy and connectedness with parents and
Debts, Disasters, and Delinquencies: A Case for Placing a Mandatory Force Majeure Provision into Consumer Credit Agreements
An administrative or legislative mandate to include force majeure provisions in consumer debt agreements could serve a constructive purpose.
Intra-Group Preferencing: Proving Skin Color and Identity Performance Discrimination
As discrimination has become more sophisticated, subtle, and nuanced, so too must conceptual frameworks lest the promise of anti-discrimination law be rendered more illusory than real.