Publications
PILJ publishes twice a year, in the winter and in the summer. Since its creation, PILJ has published 32 volumes, all containing thought-provoking scholarship on a broad range of topics relating to the public interest.
Volume 32, Issue 2 (Summer 2023)
Article
Parental Alienation, Gender Bias, and Hypocrisy in the California Family Law Courts by Carrie Leonetti
Notes
You’re on Your Own, Kid: The Plight of Unaccompanied Minors Without Representation in Immigration Court by Catherine Kannam
Mass & Cass: City-Sanctioned Eighth Amendment Rights Violations by Elizabeth M. McDermott
Volume 32, Issue 1 (Winter 2023)
Articles
Bitter Roots: Discriminatory Taint and Gifted Programming in United States Education Law by Jeff Lingwall & Jennifer Oliphant
The So-Called Stateless: Firm Resettlement, African Migrants, and Human Rights Violations in Mexico by Claire R. Thomas
Notes
When Gatekeeping Works: The Impact of Restrictive Rules in the 117th Congress by Crystal Tolley Anderson
Volume 31, Issue 3 (Summer 2022)
Articles
Corpus Linguistics and Student Loan Debt by Kyra Babcock Woods
Children’s Rights and Human Rights Education through Museums by Jonatha Todres & Anissa Malik
Note
The Corrective Value of Prosecutorial Discretion: Reducing Racial Bias through Screening, Compassion, and Education by Christina Morris
Volume 31, Issue 2 (Symposium 2022)
Note from the Editor-in-Chief by Kennedy Barber-Fraser
Articles
A Penumbra of Rights at Risk: Human Trafficking Victims’ Rights in Federal Criminal Cases by Sarah Dohoney Byrne & Jules Carter
Filling the Gap between the T-Visa and Asylum Law: A Call to Expand the T-Visa to Cover Extraterritorial Trafficking by Arifa Raza
Volume 31, Issue 1 (Winter 2022)
Articles
The Havoc Death Wreaks: Civil Rights Challenges to Capital Punishment by Bailey D. Barnes
State-Sponsored Surveillance and Punishment: How Municipal Crime-Free Ordinances Exacerbate the Carceral Continuum by Kimberly J. Cullen
Notes
The Starkest Madness: Massachusetts’ Failure to Protect the Rights of People with Mental Disabilities by Daniel J. Lemieux
Expanding the Social Security Act to Reduce Old-Age Poverty: Creating Child Care Social Security Benefits by Jordan Fleisher
Volume 30, Issue 2 (Summer 2021)
Articles
The Patchwork Quilt of Gender Equality: How State Equal Rights Amendments Can Impact the Federal Equal Rights Amendment by MaryAnn Grover
Did President Trump’s 2020 Election Litigation Kill Rule 11? by Brendan Williams
Notes
De Facto Life Sentences Trigger Juvenile-Specific Eighth Amendment Protections: Why Bowling Was Wrongly Decided by Hanna Shah
Deadly Bias: Why North Carolina’s Legacy of Systemic Racism within Capital Sentencing Necessitates the Reinstatement of the Racial Justice Act by Laura G. Jensen
Volume 30, Issue 1 (Winter 2021)
Articles
Zero Tolerance for Pretrial Release of Undocumented Immigrants by Michael Neal
English Learners in K-12 Schools at the Perilous Intersection with Disability Laws: The Need for Guardias Bilingues by Perry A. Zirkel
Notes
Prayers and Pipelines: RFRA’s Possible Role in Environmental Litigation by Diana Stanley
Right or Burden: Victim Impact Statements at Court-Martial by Edward Meyers
Volume 29, Issue 2 (Summer 2020)
Articles
A Constitutional Right to Public Information by Chad G. Marzen
“Deepfakes” in the Courtroom by Riana Pfefferkorn
Notes
Municipalities Are Not Kingdoms: Regulating Gun Ownership in Cases Involving Domestic Violence in Light of the Pauler Decision by Kellie Desrochers
(Re)Counting Facts and Building Equity: Five Arguments for an Increased Emphasis on Storytelling in the Legal Curriculum by Jane K. Childs
Charters’ Disregard for Disability: An Examination of Problems and Solutions Surrounding Student Discipline by Maryrose Robson
Volume 29, Issue 1 (Winter 2019)
Articles
How Congress Can Craft a Felon Enfranchisement Law That Will Survive Supreme Court Review by John Crain
The Travel Ban Cases: A Tale of Two Governments by Vicki Lens
The Opinion Power of the State Attorney General and the Attorney General as a Public Law Actor by Ian Eppler
Establishment Clause Health on a Restricted, Artificial Lemon Diet by Mark Strasser
Volume 28, Issue 2 (Summer 2019)
Articles
Am I My Brother’s Keeper: How Technology Necessitates Reform of the Lack of Duty to Rescue or Duty to Report Laws in the United States by Sharon Yamen, Nanci K. Carr, & Aaron Bartholomew
Squeezed out of the Marketplace: Legal and Policy Issues Pertaining to Airline Seating Configurations by Daniel Friedenzohn & Stephen Shrewsbury
Justice Gorsuch’s Crusade: The Inviolable Power of Religion by Peter Manus
Corporation of the Presiding Bishop v. Amos after Thirty Years: Exploring Limits of Religious Freedom, Church Employment, and the Civil Rights Act by David W. Read, Konrad S. Lee, Jennifer Anderson, Chad S. Pehrson
Mark Pettit’s Classic: Modern Unilateral Contracts by Robert A. Hillman
Modern Unilateral Contracts by Mark Pettit Jr.
Volume 28, Issue 1 (Winter 2019)
Articles
Being Present: What a Sales Tax Case Demonstrates about Federalism, the Dormant Commerce Clause, and the Direction of Supreme Court Jurisprudence by Natasha N. Varyani
Civil Liability for Torture: The Victim’s Prayer for Relief by Benjamin Seth Bowden
On Account of Sex: How Massachusetts’s Equal Rights Amendment Can Protect Choice by Katherine Jones
The Terry Dilemma: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Qualified Immunity for Police Officers by Suzanne Barth
Volume 27, Issue 2 (Summer 2018)
Articles
When Regulation Becomes a Matter of Life or Death: Filling the Gaps of Heller and McDonald by Claire Perna
These Words May Not Mean What You Think They Mean: Toward a Modern Understanding of Children and Miranda Waivers by Raneta Lawson Mack
Of Courtrooms & Classrooms by Danielle R. Cover
Climate Change and Environmental Policy: An Analysis of the Final Guidance on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Effects of Climate Change in National Environment Policy Act Reviews by Nicole Rushovich
Challenging Growth Restrictive Zoning in Massachusetts on a Disparate Impact Theory by Michelle Shortsleeve
Equal Isn’t Always Equitable: Reforming the Use of Joint Custody Presumptions in Judicial Child Custody Determinations by Angela Marie Caulley
Volume 27, Issue 1 (Winter 2018)
Articles
He Ain’t Heavy, He’s my Brother: The Need for a Statutory Enabling of Sibling Visitation by Aaron Edward Brown
When Corporations Go to Church: Free Exercise under Hobby Lobby by Tesch Leigh West
“My Brain Is So Wired”: Neuroimaging’s Role in Competency Cases Involved Persons with Mental Disabilities by Michael L. Perlin & Alison J. Lynch
Holding Internet Advertising Providers Accountable for Sex Trafficking: Impediments to Criminal Prosecution and a Proposed Response by Sandra Elizabeth Kowalski
Examining the Value-Add on Non-Adversarial Processes in the Immediate Aftermath of Police Shootings by Katelyn Rowe
Up in Smoke: Removing Marijuana from Schedule I by David R. Katner
Volume 26, Issue 2 (Summer 2017)
Articles
The Unconstitutionality of Bulk Data Collection by Richard A. Robertson
Retail Canyon: The Failure of Environmental Law within an American Treasure by Shane Wright
Fulfilling the Promise of Gideon in Massachusetts: Providing a Post-Conviction Right to Counsel for Prisoners Asserting Innocence by Samuel D. Jockel
Volume 26, Issue 1 (Winter 2017)
Articles
Should Everyone Now Use the Royal We: The Microbiome’s Implications for Fourth Amendment Rights by George M. Dery III
Still Serving Two Masters: Evaluating the Conflict between School Choice and Desegregation under the Lens of Critical Race Theory by Steven L. Nelson
OPM Data Breach Case Study: Mitigating Personnel Cybersecurity Risk by Alan Wehbe
Swipe Right for ISIS: Social Media and Material Support to Foreign Terrorist Organizations by Kasey A. Feltner
Our Moral Obligation: The Message Massachusetts Can Send to Sexual and Physical Child Abusers by Misael Carlos Sanchez
Volume 25, Issue 2 (Summer 2016)
Articles
Religious Freedom versus Public Health: The Necessity of Compulsory Vaccination for Schoolchildren by Rebecca Bucchieri
The Unthinkable Choice: The Constitutional Due Process Right to Parent Or the Legal Right to Use Medical Marijuana by Marka B. Fleming & Gwendolyn McFadden-Wade
Murder Was the Case That They Gave Me: Defendant’s Rap Lyrics as Evidence in a Criminal Trial by Michael Gregory
Rubbing the Rabbit’s Foot: Gallows, Superstitions and Public Healthcare in England during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries by Roberta M. Harding
Participation in Primary Elections and the Dispositive Election Test by Alexander Macheras
Wait, My Former Lawyer Represents Who? How Lackadaisical Side-Switching in the California National Guard Creates Conflicts of Interest, Imperils Client Confidences, and Erodes Trust in the Militia Legal System by Dwight Stirling & Corey Lovato
Volume 25, Issue 1 (Winter 2016)
Articles
Legislating Foregiveness: A Study of Post-Conviction Certificates as Policy to Address the Employment Consequences of a Conviction by Heather J. Garretson
The U.S. Asylum Pre Se-Dures for for Unaccompanied and Undocumented Children: Cost and Fear v. Child’s Best Interest by Violeta K. Haralampieva
The Merciful Corpus: The Rule of Lenity, Ambiguity and Corpus Linguistics by Daniel Ortner
Hobby Lobby, RFRA, and Family Burdens by Mark Strasser
Volume 24, Issue 2 (Summer 2015)
Articles
Baptized by Fire: Protocol III’s Imperfect Ban on Incendiary Weapons against Civilians in Times of War by Michael Callan & Christopher Henry
It’s a Trap: The Constitutional Dangers of Admitting Privileges for Both Women and Abortion Providers by Jason Del Rosso
Toward a Comprehensive Gender-Based Violence Court System by Aaron Horth
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Banality of Race, the Housing and Foreclosure Crisis, and the Financial Genocide of Minorities by Aleatra P. Williams
Case Comment
Hey, Hey, the Gang’s All Here: The Fourth Circuit Fights for Former Gang Members in Martinez v. Holderby Scott M. Henry
Volume 24, Issue 1 (Winter 2015)
Articles
How Students Became Criminals: The Similarities between Stop and Frisk and School Searches and the Effect on Delinquency Rates by Rachel N. Johnson
Extending Statutes of Limitations for Victims of Child Sexual Abuse Based on the Developmental Model and International Law by Rebecca Lowe
Missing the Metaphor: Compulsory Decryption and the Fifth Amendment by Jeffrey Kiok
Special Delivery: Allow Two to Three Weeks for Shipping and NSA Bugging by Sarah O’Donohue
The Presentment Clause Meets the Suspension Power: The Affordable Care Act’s Long and Winding Road to Implementation by Mitchell J. Widener
Case Comment
An Interpretation and Application of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009: How Courts Got It Wrong Twice by Julia M. Fox
Volume 23, Issue 2 (Summer 2014)
Articles
Government Regulation and Private Litigation: The Law Should Enhance Harmony, Not War by Victor E. Schwartz & Christopher E. Appel
Insuring Equitable Lives: Why All States Should Amend Their Insurable Interest Laws to Provide Equal Protection for Same-Sex Partners by Brian M. Balduzzi
Judicial Answer to Political Question: The Political Question Doctrine in the United States and Israel by Elad Gil
Sorry, That’s Classified: Post 9/11 Surveillance Powers, the Sixth Amendment, and Niebuhrian Ethics by Sejal H. Patel
Notes
A New NEPA to Take a Bite out of Environmental Injustice by Marissa Tripolsky
Big Brother’s Grown Wings: The Domestic Proliferation of Drone Surveillance and the Law’s Response by Douglas Y. Yang
Putting Every Student First: The State Constitutionality of Last-in, First-out Seniority Protections When Economic Layoffs Disproportionately Impact Poor and Minority Students by Alysha Stein-Manes
Volume 23, Issue 1 (Winter 2014)
Articles
Punishing the Publishing of Classified Materials: The Espionage Act and Wikileaks by Christopher J. Markham
Filling up from the Right Source: Why HUD’s Interpretation of What Makes a Housing Accommodation Reasonable Should Be Given Chevron Deference by Brett Werenski
Probable Cause on a Leash by Taylor Phipps
Fifteen Years and Death: Double Jeopardy, Multiple Punishments, and Extended Stays on Death Row by Michael Johnson
Lights, Camera, Arrest: The Stage Is Set for a Federal Resolution of a Citizen’s Right to Record the Police in Public by Taylor Robertson
Case Comment
Take a Step Back: The Constitutionality of Stricter Funeral-Picketing Regulations after Snyder v. Phelpsby Margaret Greco
Volume 22, Issue 2 (Summer 2013)
Articles
Qualified Immunity and the First Amendment Right to Record Police by Geoffrey J. Derrick
Governors: Seize the Law: A Call to Expand the Use of Pardons to Provide Relief for Deportation by Stacy Caplow
The Endangered School District: The Promise and Challenge of Redistributing Control of Public Education by Daniel Kiel
Notes
The Problem of Low Crime: Constitutionally Inadequate Criminal Defense in Rural America by Zachary Cloud
New Fathers, Old Rights: How the Massachusetts Maternity Leave Act Discriminates against Men by Ayelet R. Weiss
Volume 22, Issue 1 (Winter 2013)
Articles
Fourth Amendment beyond Katz, Kyllo and Jones: Reinstating Justifiable Reliance as a More Secure Constitutional Standard for Privacy by Richard Sobel, Barry Horowitz, & Gerald Jenkins
Some Reasons for Our Ambivalence about the Value of Privacy by George R. Wright
Property, Privacy and Power: Rethinking the Fourth Amendment in the Wake of U.S. v. Jonesby Dana Raigrodski
Legal Education in the Age of Innocence: Integrating Wrongful Conviction Advocacy into the Legal Writing Curriculum by Stephanie Roberts Hartung
Notes
The Massachusetts Care and Protection System: Is a Low Tolerance for Risk Really in the Best Interest of Children by Jacinta Patterson
A Taxing Divorce: A Solution to DOMA’s Tax Inequities in Same-Sex Divorce by Brian M. Balduzzi
Volume 21, Issue 2 (Spring 2012)
Article
Legal Aid Affairs: Collaborating with Local Governments on the Side by Jesse Newmark
Notes
Putting the Heat on the Fossil Fuel Industry: Using Products Liability in Climate Change Litigation by Lindsay Leone
An Illegal Rub: Analyzing Craigslist’s First Amendment Right to Host Adult Service Ads by Annie Ross
Volume 21, Issue 1 (Fall 2011)
Articles
No Knights in Shining Armor: Why Separation of Powers Benefits Children and Social Services Systems by Jessica Jean Hu
Chance and Litigation by F.E. Geurra-Pujol
Following Thayer: The Many Faces of Judicial Restraint by Zachary Baron Shemtob
Ignore the Man behind the Curtain: On the Government Speech Doctrine and What It Licenses by Mark Strasser
Notes
Eminent Domain Conversion of Vacant Luxury Condominiums into Low-Income Housing by David Linhart
Eroding the Public’s Right to Clean Air: Examination of the Hazardous Air Pollutants Exemption for Natural Gas Drilling under the Clean Air Act by Kaitlyn R. Maxwell
Volume 20, Issue 2 (Spring 2011)
Articles
Deja Vu: A Federal Judge Revisits the War on Drugs, or Life in a Balloon by Juan R. Torruella
Environmental Disclosure: Toward an Investor Based Corporate Environmentalism Norm by Jason C. Jones
On the Take: The Black Box of Credit Scoring and Mortgage Discrimination by Cassandra Jones Havard
From Substance to Shadows: An Essay on Salazar v. Buono and Establishment Clause Remedies by David B. Owens
The CHINS Don’t Stand a Chance: The Dubious Achievements of Child in Need of Services (CHINS) Jurisdiction in Massachusetts & a New Approach to Juvenile Status Offenses by David Aaron Michel
Volume 20, Issue 1 (Fall 2010)
Articles
Sovereign Rules of the Game: Requiring Campaign Finance Disclosure in the Face of Tribal Sovereign Immunity by Mary-Beth Moylan
And I Don’t Know Why It is That You Threw Your Life Away: Abolishing Life without Parole, the Supreme Court in Graham v. Florida Now Requires States to Give Juveniles Hope for a Second Chance by Leslie Patrice Wallace
Notes
Making the Grade: An Analysis of Rights- and Due Process-Based Concerns Related to John School Diversion Programs by Adrian Guzman
Deported before Dawn: Bridging Policy and Funding Gaps to Discourage Hospitals from Privately Repatriating Immigrant Patients by Kristie-Anne Padron
Obesity as an Impairment for Employment Discrimination Purposes under the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008 by Shannon Liu
Volume 19, Issue 2 (Spring 2010)
Articles
The Fallacy of Legal Certainty: Why Vague Legal Standards May Be Better for Capitalism and Liberalism by Ofer Raban
Batson Challenges in Criminal Cases: After Snyder v. Louisiana, is Substantial Deference to the Trial Judge Still Required by Bobby Marzine Harges
Aesthetic Regulation and the Development of First Amendment Jurisprudence by Darrel C. Menthe
Notes
Why Mandatory Vaccination of Males against HPV is Unconstitutional: Offering a New Approach to an Old Problem by Benjamin Lemke
Trial by Legislature: Why Statutory Mandatory Minimum Sentences Violate the Separation of Powers Doctrine by Kieran Riley
Volume 19, Issue 1 (Fall 2009)
Articles
The Short, Puzzling Life of the Civil Union by John G. Culhane
Of Permission Slips and Homophobia: Parental Consent Policies for School Club Participation Aimed at Gay-Positive Student Groups by Ian Vandewalker
Sexual Orientation and the Public School Teacher by Todd A. DeMitchell, Suzanne Eckes, & Richard Fossey
Notes
Fourth Wave of Education Funding Litigation: How Education Standards and Costing-Out Studies Can Aid Plaintiffs in Pennsylvania and Beyond by Jill Ambrose
The 2008 FBI Guidelines: Contradiction of Original Purpose by Allison Jones
Volume 18, Issue 2 (Spring 2009)
Articles
Let the Small Changes Begin: President Obama, Executive Power, and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell by Jackie Gardina
What Really is at Stake with the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 and Ideas for Future Surveillance Reform by Stephanie Cooper Blum
Notes
America’s Lost Cause: The Unconstitutionality of Criminalizing Our Country’s Homeless Population by Jamie Michael Charles
A Preventable Tragedy at Virginia Tech: Why Confusion over FERPA’s Provisions Prevents Schools from Addressing Student Violence by Katrina Chapman
Symposium
Introduction: Symposium on Remedies for Exonerated Prisoners by Jack M. Beermann
Declaring Innocence: Use of Declaratory Judgements to Vindicate the Wrongly Convicted by Frederick Lawrence
A Short Overview of the Statutory Remedies for the Wrongly Convicted: What Works, What Doesn’t and Why by Adele Bernhard
Rebuilding a Life: The Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated by Heather Weigand
Obstacles to Litigating Civil Claims for Wrongful Conviction: An Overview by Michael Avery
Volume 18, Issue 1 (Fall 2008)
Articles
Foreclosure Fallout: The Banking Industry’s Attack on Disparate Impact Race Discrimination Claims under the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act by Michael Aleo & Pablo Svirsky
Shifting Out of Neutral: Intelligent Design and the Road to Nonpreferentialism by Kelly S. Terry
The Supreme Common Law Court of the United States by Jack M. Beermann
Notes
The Unconstitutionality of the Protect America Act of 2007 by Emily Arthur Cardy
Specialized Domestic Violence Courts: Are They Worth the Trouble in Massachusetts by Anat Maytal
Volume 17, Issue 2 (Spring 2008)
Articles
Silence in the Hallways: The Impact of Garcetti v. Ceballos on Publi School Educators by Martha M. McCarthy & Suzanne E. Eckes
Not Waiving but Drowning: The Anatomy of Death Row Syndrome and Volunteering for Execution by Amy Smith
Notes
Denying Undocumented Immigrants Access to Medicaid: A Denial of Their Equal Protection Rights by Elizabeth R. Chesler
Breaking the Norm: Accurate Evaluation of English Language Learners with Special Education Needs by Emilie Richardson
Proposal 2 and the Ban on Affirmative Action: An Uncertain Future for the University of Michigan in Its Quest for Diversity by Monica L. Rose
Volume 17, Issue 1 (Fall 2007)
Articles
Prescribing Justice: The Law and Politics of Discipline for Physician Felony Offenders by Milton Heumann, Brian Pinaire, & Jennifer Lerman
Preventative Detention of Terrorist Suspects in Australia and the United States: A Comparative Constitutional Analysis by Katherine Nesbitt
Terminal Ambiguity: Law, Ethics and Policy in the Assisted Dying Debate by Ruth C. Stern & J. Herbie DiFonzo
Notes
The Legal Implications of Unauthorized Promises and Other Military Recruited Misconduct by Anna M. Schleelein
What’s In a Name: Why the New Jersey Equal Protection Guarantee Requires Full Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage by Matthew K. Yan
Book Review
Harry A. Blackmun: The Outsider Justice by Tinsley E. Yarbrough, reviewed by Katie M. Gray
Volume 16, Issue 2 (Spring 2007)
Articles
Forgetting Freud: The Courts’ Fear of the Subconscious in Date Rape (and other) Cases by Andrew E. Taslitz
No Due Process: How the Death Penalty Violates the Constitutional Rights of the Family Members of Death Row Prisoners by Rachel King
Notes
Bloggers as Public Figures by Anthony Ciolli
Better Seen Than Herded: Residency Restrictions and Global Positioning System Tracking Laws for Sex Offenders by Megan A. Janicki
The Pickering Paper Shield: The Erosion of Public School Teachers’ First Amendment Rights Jeopardizes the Quality of Public Education by Anthony N. Moshirnia
Volume 16, Issue 1 (Fall 2006)
Articles
Taxing Development: The Law and Economics of Traffic Impact Fees by Jack Estill, Benjamin Powell, & Edward Stringham
Race-Conscious Funding Strategies and School Finance Litigation by Preston C. Green III, Bruce D. Baker, & Josephy O. Oluwole
Notes
Has Sandoval Doomed the Private Right of Action under the National Historic Preservation Act by Timothy J. Famulare
The Special Motion Requirements of the Massachusetts Anti-SLAPP Statute: A Real Slap in the Face for Traditional Civil Practice and Procedure by Rebecca Ariel Hoffberg
Lowery v. Klemm: A Failed Attempt at Providing Unpaid Interns and Volunteers with Adequate Employment Protections by James J. LaRocca
Volume 15, Issue 2 (Spring 2006)
Symposium on Children and Immigration
Are They Human Children or Just Border Rats by Susan M. Akram
Not a Sack of Potatoes: Moving and Removing Children across Borders by Jaqueline Bhabha
Whose Children are These – Towards Ensuring the Best Interests and Empowerment of Unaccompanied Alien Children by Christopher Nugent
Our Responsibility to Unaccompanied and Separated Children in the United States: A Helping Hand by Linda A. Piwowarczyk
Children and Immigration: International, Local, and Social Responsibilities by Berta Hernandez-Truyol & Justin Luna
Notes
Duck Hunting, Deliberating, and Disqualification: Cheney v. U.S. District Court and the Flaws of 28 U.S.C. Sec. 455(A) by David Feldman
The Digital Transition and the First Amendment: Is It Time to Reevaluate Red Lion’s Scarcity Rationale by Josephine Soriano
Volume 15, Issue 1 (Fall 2005)
Articles
A Foolish Consistency: Keeping Determinism out of the Criminal Law by Michele Cotton
An Uncertain Privilege: Why the Common Interest Doctrine Does Not Work and How Uniformity Can Fix It by Katharine Traylor Schaffzin
The Nature of Representation: The Cherokee Right to a Congressional Delegate by Ezra Rosser
Notes
Rule 60(B): A Rule Suitable for a Sua Sponte Motion by Henry Brownstein
The Supreme Court’s Destruction of Incentive to Participate in the Justice Department’s Cartel Leniency Program by Grant Butler
Volume 14, Issue 2 (Spring 2005)
Articles
An Impediment to Police Accountability – An Analysis of Statutory Law Enforcement Officers’ Bills of Rights by Kevin M. Keenan & Samuel Walker
The Supreme Court’s Influence on the Death Penalty in America: A Hollow Hope by Eric Tennen
Notes
Meeting the Best Interest of the Child: Reconsidering Massachusetts’ Foster Care System by Ariana L. Johnson
The Critical Mass and Law Enforcement by Allan N. MacLean
Volume 14, Issue 1 (Fall 2004)
Symposium on Goodridge v. Department of Public Health
The (Relative) Passivity of Goodridge v. Department of Public Health by Lawrence Friedman
How Brown Is Goodridge – The Appropriation of a Legal Icon by Dwight G. Duncan
Goodridge and the Rule of Law Same-Sex Marriage in Massachusetts: The Meaning and Implications of Goodridge v. Department of Public Healthby William C. Duncan
Goodridge and the Justiciary of Massachusetts by Lynn D. Wardle
Fear and Loathing in Massachusetts: Same-Sex Marriage and Some Lessons from the History of Marriage and Divorce by Joanna L. Grossman
Notes
The Kids Are Not Alright: Addressing Discriminatory Treatment of Queer Youth in Juvenile Detention and Correctional Facilities by Peter A. Hahn
Privacy and Property: Two Sides of the Same Coin: The Mandate for Stricter Scrutiny for Government Uses of Eminent Domain by Katherine M. McFarland
To Recall or Not to Recall by Paul S. Mistovich
Volume 13, Issue 2 (Spring 2004)
Articles
De Sciuridae et Homo Sapiens: The Origin of Rights and Duties by Hugh Gibbons
To Certify or Not to Certify: A Circuit-by-Circuit Primer on the Varying Standards for Class Certification in Actions under the Federal Labor Standards Act by Scott Edward Cole & Matthew R. Bainer
Notes
Making Prisoners Pay for Their Stay: How a Popular Correctional Program Violates the Ex Post Facto Clause by Joshua Michtom
Ready…Aim…FOIA! – A Survey of the Freedom of Information Act in the Post-9/11 United States by Ava Barbour
A Queer by Any Other Name: Advocating a Victim-Centered Approach to Title VII and Title IX Same-Sex Sexual Harassment Claims by Erin Kate Ryan
Volume 13, Issue 1 (Fall 2003)
Articles
A Miscarriage of Justice in Massachusetts: Eyewitness Identification Procedures, Unrecorded Admissions, and a Comparison with English Law by Stanley Z. Fisher & Ian McKenzie
Grandparent Visitation Claims: Assessing the Multiple Harms of Litigation to Families and Children by Stephen A. Newman
The Biological Basis of Human Rights by Hugh Gibbons & Nicholas Skinner
Notes
The School Choice Provision of the No Child Left Behind Act and Its Conflict with Desegregation Orders by Cathryn Vaughn
Justifying Punishment for White-Collar Crime: A Utilitarian and Retributive Analysis of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act by Michael D. Silberfarb
Defining Religion for Constitutional Purposes: A New Approach Based on the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg by Eli A. Echols
Volume 12, Issues 2&3 (Spring/Summer 2003)
Articles
Defining Reasonable Efforts: Demystifying the State’s Burden under Federal Child Protection Legislation by Will L. Crossley
Consumer Bankruptcy Reform and 11 U.S.C. 707(b): A Case-Based Analysis by Ann Morales Olazabal & Andrew J. Foti
Spiritual Healing and the Free Exercise Clause: An Argument for the Use of Strict Scrutiny by Zaven T. Saroyan
Corporate Advertising’s Democracy by Bruce Ledewitz
Notes
The Public Policy Exception to Arbitral Finality: Protecting Children and Preserving the Sanctity of Arbitration by Daryl DeValerio Andrews
Installation of Internet Filters in Public Libraries: Protection of Children and Staff vs. the First Amendment by Kiera Meehan
Commentary
The Lawyer Is In: Why Some Doctors Are Prescribing Legal Remedies for Their Patients, and How the Legal Profession can Support This Effort by Pamela Tames, Paul Tremblay, Thuy Wagner, & Ellen Lawton
Volume 12, Issue 1 (Fall 2002)
Articles
Convictions of Innocent Persons in Massachusetts by Stanley Z. Fisher
The Corporatization of the University: Distance Learning at the Cost of Academic Freedom by Risa L. Lieberwitz
Something Old, Something New: Does the Massachusetts Constitution Provide for Same-Sex Marriage by Wendy Herdlein
Notes
Campaign Finance Reform after Colorado Republic II: The Constitutionality of the Campaign Reform Act’s Soft Money Ban by Wendy Fritz
Strict Scrutiny, Biracial Children, and Adoption by Stephanie R. Richardson
Current Treatment of Environmental Justice Claims: Plaintiffs Face a Dead End in the Courtroom by Suzanne Smith
Volume 11, Issues 2&3 (Spring/Summer 2002)
Articles
The Missing Jurisprudence of Merit by Allen R. Kamp
Determining Charter Schools’ Responsibilities for Children with Disabilities: A Guide through the Legal Labyrinth by Julie F. Mead
Substantial Compliance Permits Substantial Suffering: Debunking the Myth of a Principled Split in the Circuits over Mandatory Timeliness Requirements in Federal Benefits Law by Armen H. Merjian
After Bragdon v. Abbott: Why Legislation Is Still Needed to Mandate Infertility Insurance by James B. Roche
Note
Dipping Into Uncle Sam’s Pockets: Federal Funding of Stem Cell Research: Is It Legal Now by Carly Goldstein
United States v. Morrison: A Critique of the Supreme Court’s Restriction of Congress’ Fourteenth Amendment Powers by Deena Hausner
Morrison Overcome: Protecting Red Wolves and the Administrative State by Walter Partain
Comment
After Woodward v. Commissioner of Social Services: Where Do Posthumously Conceived Children Stand in the Line of Descent by Amy L. Komoroski
Volume 11, Issue 1 (Fall 2001)
Articles
Redefining the Relationship between the States and the Federal Government: A Focus on the Supreme Court’s Expansion of the Principle of State Sovereign Immunity by Joseph M. Pellicciotti
Institutionalized, Legal Racism: Housing Segregation and Beyond by Deborah Kenn
The Malleability of Constitutional Doctrine and Its Ironic Impact on Prisoners’ Rights by Christopher E. Smith
Notes
Stimulant Drug Therapy for Hyperactive Children: Adjudicating Disputes between Parents and Educators by Amy L. Komoroski
Using Popular Referendums to Declare Fundamental Rights by Benjamin N. Smith
Volume 10, Issue 3 (Summer 2001)
Articles
Arbitration of Consumer Claims: The Sad Case of Two-Time Victim Terry Johnson or Where Have You Gone Learned Hand by Richard B. Cappalli
Smart Growth: Maryland’s Innovative Answer to Sprawl by Parris N. Glendening
Note
The New Scylla and Charybdis: Student Speech vs. Student Safety after Columbine by Richard C. Demerle
Current Developments in the Law
Workers’ Compensation Act, Federal Arbitration Act and the Fourth Amendment
Volume 10, Issue 2 (Spring 2001)
Articles
Hunting the Dragon: Reforming the Massachusetts Murder Statutes by Sean J. Kealy
Violence against Lawyers: The Increasingly Attacked Profession by Stephen Kelson
Due Process Rights of Grade School Students Subjected to High-Stakes Testing by William P. Quigley
Notes
The Inadequate Protection Afforded an Absent Tenant’s Property during an Eviction by Jason Weidle
The Public Use Clause, Common Sense and Takings by Derek Werner
Book Review
Not In Front of the Children: “Indecency,” Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth by Marjorie Heins, reviewed by David Greene
Volume 10, Issue 1 (Fall 2000)
Articles
Predatory Lending Prevention Project: Prescribing a Cure for the Home Equity Loss Ailing the Elderly by Donna S. Harkness
State Educational Agencies and Special Education: Obligation and Liabilities by Thomas A. Mayes & Perry A. Zirkel
Supplemental Needs Trusts for People with Disabilities: The Development of a Private Trust in the Public Interest by Jason A. Rosenberg
Notes
I Gotta Get out of This Case: Withdrawal from Representation as a Public Defender by Jessica R. John
Reconciling the Internal Inconsistency and Resolving the Denominator Problem in Takings by Christopher S. Kiefer
Book Review
The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America by Jeffrey Rosen, reviewed by William T. Bogaert
Volume 9, Issues 2&3 (Spring 2000)
Special Report
Gender, Race and Ethnic Bias Task Forces
Article
Presidential Disability: The Twenty-Fifth Amendment Still an Untried Tool by Calvin Bellamy
Notes
Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth and Faragher v. City of Boca Raton: A Step in the Wrong Direction by Cynthia Fair
An Offer You Can’t Refuse – United States v. Singleton and the Effects of Witness/Prosecutorial Agreements by Timothy Hollis
Bang the Gavel Slowly: A Call for Judicial Activisim Following the Curt Flood Act by Peter M. Macaluso
Current Developments in the Law
A Survey of Federal Cases Involving the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 by Rashmi Luthra
Book Reviews
Book NotesReligion and the American Constitutional Experiment by Angelin J. Ho
Legal Battles That Shaped the Computer Industry by Kevin H. Vanderleeden
Volume 9, Issue 1 (Fall 1999)
Articles
Prosecuting Sex Tour Operators in U.S. Courts in an Effort to Reduce the Sexual Exploitation of Children Globally by Jonathan Todres
The Benefits of Voluntary Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitalization: Myth or Reality by Donald H. Stone
Notes
Massachusetts Rule of Professional Conduct 6.1: One Small, But Needed, Step for Lawyers, an Even Smaller Step for the Commonwealth’s Poor by Erika Martin-Doyle
Utilization Review as the Practice of Medicine: Scaling the Wall of ERISA by Judith Feinberg
Dying for the Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel in State Post-Conviction Proceedings: State Statute & Due Process in Capital Cases by Letty S. Di Giulio
Current Developments in the Law
A Survey of Federal Cases Involving the Constitutionality of the Violence Against Women Act
Book Review
Blue vs. Black: Let’s End the Conflict Between Cops and Minorities by John L. Burris with Catherine Whitney, reviewed by William D. McColl II
Book Note
Immigrants in Courts by Richard Flores
Volume 8, Issue 3 (Spring 1999)
Articles
Legal Research and Writing Programs as Vehicles for Law Student Pro Bono Service by Rebecca A. Cochran
The First Amendment and the Labor Relations of Religiously-Affiliated Employers by David L. Gregory & Charles J. Russo
Lawyers and the Myth of Rights in Civil Rights and Poverty Practice by Ann Southworth
Notes
The Unconstitutionality of State Legislation Banning Partial-Birth Abortion by Rebecca L. Andrews
The Mandatory Arbitration Clause: Forum Selection or Employee Coercion by Victoria J. Craine
Current Developments in in the Law
A Survey of Federal Cases Involving the Constitutionality of the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act
Book Review
Campus Hate Speech on Trial by Timothy C. Shiel, reviewed by Melanie Jacobs
Book Note
Fragments on the Deathwatch by Christie M. Charles
Volume 8, Issue 2 (Winter 1999)
Articles
Inverts, Perverts, and Converts: Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy and Liability by Laura A. Gans
The President’s Guidelines on Religious Exercise and Religious Expression in the Federal Workplace: A Restatement or Reinterpretation of Law by Stephen S. Kao
The Objective Mind and Search Incident to Citation by Robert R. Rigg
Notes
Strengthening Victims’ Rights in Domestic Violence Cases: An Argument for 30-Day Mandatory Restraining Orders in Massachusetts by Jennifer R. Adler
Proposition 227: A Burning Issue for California’s Bilingual Students by Marilyn Farquharson
Protecting the Charitable Investor: A Rationale for Donor Enforcement of Restricted Gifts by Lisa Loftin
Current Developments in the Law
A Survey of Federal Cases Involving the Constitutionality of Suspicionless Drug Testing
Book Review
In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings, edited by Catherine A. MacKinnon & Andrea Dworkin, reviewed by Christine M. Durkin
Book Notes
The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law by Timothy Bove
Cornered: Big Tobacco at the Bar of Justice by Brendan J. Murphy
Volume 8, Issue 1 (Fall 1998)
Profile
Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.: A Pragmatic Relativist by Craig Evan Klafter
Articles
Should Social Workers Engage in the Unauthorized Practice of Law by Anthony Bertelli
Never Let Me Slip, Cause If I Slip, Then I’m Slippin’: California’s Paranoid Slide from Bakke to Proposition 209 by Andre Douglas Pond Cummings
A New Standing Requirement for First Amendment Litigants: Bar Owners Resting on Their Own Bottoms or Still Resting on the Bare Bottoms of Nude Dancers by Angela Maw Kupenda, Leslie P. Barry, & Mark D. Fijman
Notes
The Americans with Disabilities Act: Advocating Judicial Deference to the EEOC’s Mitigating Measures Guidelines by Sheryl Rebecca Kamholz
Kids with the Kissies and Schools with the Jitters: Finding a Reasonable Solution to the Problem of Student-to-Student Sexual Harassment in Elementary Schools by Lisa M. Kelsey
Hate Speech over the Internet: A Traditional Constitutional Analysis or a New Cyber Constitution by Rachel Weintraub-Reiter
Current Developments in the Law
A Survey of Federal Cases Involving Employer Vicarious Liability for Sexual Harassment
Book Review
Getting Away with Murder: How Politics Is Destroying the Criminal Justice System by Susan Estrich, reviewed by Georgia Wilemon
Book Note
The Best Interests of the Child: The Least Detrimental Alternative by Jennifer L. Schatzman
Volume 7, Issue 2 (Summer 1998)
Articles
Early Efforts to Suppress Protest: Unwanted Abolitionist Speech by Katherine Hessler
An African-American Sense of Fact: The O.J. Trial and Black Judges on Justice by Andrew E. Taslitz
Notes
The Trend toward Medicaid Managed Care: Is the Government Selling out the Medicaid Poor by Lisa Axelrod
The Problem with Juvenile Sex Offender Registration: The Detrimental Effects of Public Discourse by Stacey Hiller
Illiterate Inmates and the Right of Meaningful Access to the Courts by John Matosky
Divergent Conceptions: Procreational Rights and Disputes over the Fate of Frozen Embryos by Daniel I. Steinberg
Current Developments in the Law
A Survey of Federal Cases which Involve Campaign Financing
Book Note
Spectral Evidence The Ramona Case: Incest, Memory, and Truth on Trial in Napa Valley by Tracy Frederick
Turnaround: How America’s Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic by Michelle L. Gallimore
A New Birth of Freedom: Human Rights, Named & Unnamed by Stacey Hiller
Volume 7, Issue 1 (Winter 1998)
Profiles
Justice William Joseph Brennan, Jr., 1906-1997 – Eulogy at the Funeral Mass of Justice Brennan, delivered by Justice Souter
Morning Coffee with Justice Brennan by Evan Carminker
Articles
Child Welfare Law Curricula in Legal Education: Massachusetts’ Untried Opportunity by Jennifer R. Gavin
Understanding Artists’ Moral Rights: Rimer by Susan P. Liemer
Notes
Wielding the Consumer Protection Shield: Sensible Handgun Regulation in Massachusetts – A Paradigm for a National Model by Benjamin Bejar
Punishment or Politics – New York State’s Death Penalty by Andrea E. Girolamo
Current Developments in the Law
Book Note
Black Rage Confronts the Lawby Shuba Satyaprasad
Volume 6, Issue 3 (Spring 1997)
Articles
Race-Based Adoption in a Post-Loving Frame by Jane Maslow Cohen
Threats, Harassment, and Hate On-line: Recent Developments by Sally Greenberg
Commentaries
Evaluating the Current Judicial Interpretation of Serious Health Conditions under the FMLA by William McDevitt
False Confessions and Fundamental Fairness: The Need for Electronic Recording of Custodial Interrogations by Gail Johnson
Notes
Reinstitution of the Chain Gang: A Historical and Constitutional Analysis by Nancy A. Ozimek
Privacy or Safety: A Constitutional Analysis of Public Housing Sweep Searches by Zionne N. Pressley
Current Developments in the Law
A Survey of Cases Affecting Obscene and Indecent Communications
Volume 6, Issue 2 (Winter 1997)
Symposium on Transracial Adoption
Foreword by Katharine B. Silbaugh
A Race-Conscious Argument for Transracial Adoption by Hawley Fogg-Davis
Transracial Adoption (TRA): Old Prejudices and Discrimination Float under a New Halo by Ruth-Arlene W. Howe
Plaintiff’s Opposition to Defendant’s Amended Motion for Summary Judgement and Brief in Support
Commentaries
Protecting Children Exposed to Domestic Violence in Contested Custody and Visitation Litigation by Pauline Quirion
Give Me Liberty and Give Me Death: Assisted Suicide as a Fundamental Liberty Interest by Robert L. Kline
Notes
Can Civil Damage Suits Stop Stalkers by Kristin J. Bouchard
Post-Johnson v. Jones Confusion: The Impact of United States Immigration Laws on Battered Immigrant Women by Tien-Li Loke
Alternative Education in Massachusetts: Giving Every Student a Chance to Succeed by Amy E. Mulligan
Volume 6, Issue 1 (Fall 1996)
Criminal Law Symposium
One Judge’s Attempt at a Rational Discussion of the So-Called War on Drugs by Juan R. Torruella
Federal Evidentiary Hearings under the New Habeas Corpus Statute by Larry W. Yackle
The Gallows to the Gurney: Analyzing the (Un)Constitutionality of the Methods of Execution by Roberta M. Harding
Remembering William Kunstler by Sean M. Maher
Civil Remedies in Acquaintance Rape Cases by Corinne Casarino
The War on Drugs: Evening the Odds through Use of the Airport Drug Courier Profile by Brian A. Wilson
Combatting Hate Crimes: The Use of Civil Alternatives to Criminal Prosecutions by David G. Braithwaite
The Indigent Driminal Defendant, DNA Evidence and the Right to an Expert Witness: A Comparison of the Requirements of Due Process in State v. Dubose and Harris v. State by Sonja L. DeWitt
A Survey of Cases Affecting the Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
Symposium on Megan’s Law
Pursuing Public Protection through Mandatory Community Notification of Convicted Sex Offenders: The Trials and Tribulations of Megan’s Law by Robert J. Martin
Constitutional Challenges to Megan’s Law: A Year’s Retrospective by Ronald K. Chen
Volume 5, Issue 2 (Winter 1996)
Commentary
The Attorney General of Massachusetts’ Bill Relative to the Trial and Sentencing of Serious Juvenile Offenders by Scott Harshbarger & Carolyn Keshian
Articles
Life at Lorton: An Examination of Prisoners Rights at th District of Columbia Correctional Facilities by Katya Lezin
The Right to Assisted Suicide in Washington and Oregon: The Courts Won’t Allow a Northwest Passage by Robert L. Kline
The HUD Reinvention: A Critical Analysis by Jenifer J. Curhan
Notes
Gangs and Law Enforcement: The Necessity of Limiting the Use of Gang Profiles by Suzin Kim
The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act: In Support of Enactment by Tara K. Weinman
Application of the Civil Liberties Act to Japanese Peruvians: Seeking Redress for Deportation and Internment Conducted by the United States Government during World War II by Manjusha P. Kulkarni
Current Developments in the Law
A Survey of Cases Addressing the Family and Medical Leave Act
Volume 5, Issue 1 (Spring 1995)
Articles
Restrictions on Equal Treatment of Unmarried Domestic Partners by William V. Vetter
War on Drugs or on Drug Users – Drug Treatment and the Nimby Syndrom by Herbert A. Eastman
The Problematic Status of Employee Compensation and Retiree Pension Security: Resisting the State, Reforming the Corporation by David L. Gregory
Paradise Unfound: The American Dream of Housing Justice for All by Deborah Kenn
Note
Using Discourse Ethics to Provide Equality in Education for African-American Children Forty Years after Brown v. Board of Education by Norman Williams, Jr.
Volume 4, Issue 2 (1995)
Symposium: New Approaches to Poverty Law, Teaching, and Practice
Introduction by Louise G. Trubek
Toward New Strategies for Law-Wage Workers by Karl E. Klare
Law School Initiatives in Houseing and Community Development by Peter Pitegoff
Changing Economy, Changing Lives: Unemployment Insurance and the Contingent Workforces by Deborah Maranville
Domestic Violence and Feminist Jurisprudence: Towards a New Agenda by Naomi Cahn & Joan Meier
Challenging Legal Culture from Classroom to Practice: A Case Study of New College’s Politics of Law Practice Course by Susan Senger Bowyer
Cesarean Section Epidemic: Defining the Problem – Approaching Solutions by Kelly F. Bates
Notes
Austin v. United States: Forfeiture as Punishment and the Implications for Warrantless Seizures by Joseph B. Harrington
Profile
The N. Neal Pike Institute on Law and Disability by Emanuel Bardanis
Commentary
Disability Ideaology and the Law School Curriculum by Allan H. Macurdy
Current Developments in the Law
A Survey of Cases Addressing the Americans with Disabilities Act
Volume 4, Issue 1 (Spring 1994)
Commentary
The Crisis and Opportunity in Public Interest Law: A Challenge to Law Students to Be Rebellious Lawyers in the 90s by Luke Cole
Articles
The Price of Political Independence: The Unconstitutional Status of the Legal Services Corporation by Charles J. Cooper & Michael A. Carvin
Restrictions on Lobbying by Legal Services Attorneys: Redefining Professional Norms and Obligations by Paula Galowitz
Profiles
Steven Forester by Stephen F. Armbruster
Anthony P. Griffin by Delida Costin
Notes
Public Right of Passage along the Massachusetts Coast: An Argument for Implementation without Compensation by Sharon M. P. Nicholls
Case Comment: A Hard Look at a Soft Analysis, Corrosion Proof Fittings v. Environmental Protection Agencyby Rita L. Wecker
Current Developments in the Law
Volume 3, Issue 2 (Fall 1993)
Commentaries
The Attorney General’s Sponsored Bill to Amend the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act by Scott Harshbarger & Richard W. Cole
Your Money or Your Life: A Modest Proposal for Mandatory Pro Bono Services by Mary Coombs
Articles
The Duty of a Public Utility to Mitigate Damages from Nonpayment through the Offer of Conservation Programs by Roger D. Colton & Doug Smith
Congressional Power and the Right to Choose: A Constitutional Analysis of the Freedom of Choice Act by Todd A. Lorenz
Profiles
Michael Avery by Luis M. Ramos
Angela Oh by Sabrina Fang
Notes
The 1953 United States-Japan FCN Treaty: Can Title VII Protect American Women by Andrew B. Thorson
Rape Prosecutions and Privileged Psychological Counselling Records: How Much Does a Defendant Have a Right to Know about His Accuser by Chauncey B. Wood
Current Developments in the Law
A Survey of Recent Cases Affecting the Rights of Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals
Volume 3, Issue 1 (Spring 1993)
Commentaries
Justice Thurgood Marshall: A Reminiscence by Kenneth W. Simons
Holistic Lawyering: A Comprehensive Approach to Dispute Resolution by William van Zyverden
Articles
Supreme Court’s Tilt to the Property Right: Procedural Due Process Protections of Liberty and Property Interests by Jack M. Beermann, Barbara A. Melamend, & Hugh F. Hall
Directiveness in Clinical Supervision by James H. Stark, Jon Bauer, & Jams Papillo
Foreword to an Interview with Fred Korematsu by Larry W. Yackle
Japanese American Internment: An Interview with Fred Korematsu
Notes
Punishing the Messenger for the Message: An Analysis of the Criminalization of Panhandling by Pavel Wonsowicz
Cause and Prejudice: The Rehnquist Court Habeas Corpus and Judicial Activism by Steven C. Reingold
Prosecution for Maternal Substance Abuse: Shortcomings of a Punitive Approach by Anne J. Seigel
Volume 2 (1992)
Commentary
Meeting the Demand for Pro Bon Services by Justice O’Connor
Articles
Public Interest Law and Legal Education: What Role Should Law Schools Play in Meeting the Legal Needs Crisis by Jonathan O. Hafen
Poetic Justice: An Interview with Martin Espada
Note
Living Benefits: A Right of the Terminally Ill by Andrew L. Lee
Volume 1 (1991)
Dedication
Mary Joe Frug and the Public Interest by Martha Minow
Commentaries
Lawyers and the Public Interest by Archibald Cox
The Americans with Disabilities Act: What It Means to All Americans by Dick Thornburgh
The Americans with Disabilities Act: Time for Celebration, or Time for Caution by Allan H. Macurdy
In Pursuit of the Public Interest: The Massachusetts Experience by Edward F. Hennessey
Critical Lawyering: Toward a New Public Interest Practice by Louise G. Trubek
Articles
The Role of Competition in Making Grants for the Provision of Legal Services to the Poor by Gerry Singsen
In the Wake of Cardoza-Fonseca: Doctrinal Puzzles in Asylum Law by Mark M. Hager
The New Public Interest Law: From Old Theories to a New Agenda by Lois H. Johnson
Point/Counterpoint – Topic: Whether Law Schools Should Require Students to Provide Some Amount of Free Legal Services to Indigents
Pro Bono and Legal Education by Michael Caudell-Feagan
Forced Pro Bono for Law Students Is a Bad Idea by Alan M. Slobodin
Book Review
The Poor in Court by Susan E. Lawrence, reviewed by Vincent Luizzi