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Book Reviews
The Review: Volume 8
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Volume 8 Issue 1
First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti: Corporate Political Speech In Ballot-Measure Campaigns
Analysis of Bellotti, in which the Supreme Court held that could not be barred from spending money to influence referendums because of their right to political speech
Board of Education, Levittown Union Free School District v. NYQUIST: A Return to Federal Equal Protection In School Financing Cases
Analysis of Levittown and equal protection implications on school financing laws.
Copyright: Gone with the Betamax
Considers the legality of the Betamax (TV recorder) and other home recorders under copyright law and suggests need for legislative solutions.
Volume 8 Issue 2
Pornography and the First Amendment
Federal and state governments can constitutionally puish the purveyors of obscenity.
Images of Women In Pornography and Media
Overview of presentaiton at a colloquium, focusing changing attitudes we hold twoards men, women and violence by changing images that reinforce the attitudes
If the Trumpet Sounds an Uncertain Note...
In a democracy, it is imperative that all new and unconventional ideas, no matter how offensive, be heard or read.
Private Action against Pornography: An Exercise of First Amendment Rights
A civil libertarian feminist can become involved in group efforts to end violence against women without abandoning civil liberties principles.
Volume 8 Issue 3
Homosexuality and the Constitutional Right to Privacy
Discussion of legal theories attacking anti-sodomy laws; argues that establishment clause claims and constituional right to privacy are stronger theroies
New Jersey Education Association v. Burke: Res Judicata, the Younger Doctrine, and the Captive State Litigant
Examination of Third Circuit's reformulation of Younger abstention to permit federal civil rights claims not raised and decided in state court
Securing Gay Rights through Constitutional Litigation
Discussion of state courts as forum for constitutional litigation, particularly with respect to gay rights
Determinism and the Drug Addiction Defense to Criminal Prosecution
Proposal of an alternative moral theory that enables courts to recognize a drug addiction defense