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When Self Abuse Becomes Child Abuse: The Need For Coercive Prenatal Government Action In Response To The Cocaine Baby Problem, Kevin Drendel
When Self Abuse Becomes Child Abuse: The Need For Coercive Prenatal Government Action In Response To The Cocaine Baby Problem, Kevin Drendel
Northern Illinois University Law Review
This Commentary identifies prenatal drug exposure of infants as a problem with which our society must come to terms. The judicial system is capable of providing solutions, but a void of appropriate legislation hampers that ability. Among the legal vehicles available are criminal laws, child abuse and neglect laws, civil and criminal injunctions, and involuntary commitment laws. A balancing of the maternal, societal, and fetal interests involved can be accomplished on a case by case basis in the absence of enabling and guiding legislation. However, legislation in this highly sensitive area is a better way. This commentary explores the problem, …
Vol. 10, No. 3, 1991: Table Of Contents, Northern Illinois University Law Review
Vol. 10, No. 3, 1991: Table Of Contents, Northern Illinois University Law Review
Northern Illinois University Law Review
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Privacy And The Other Miss M, Dorothy Glancy
Privacy And The Other Miss M, Dorothy Glancy
Northern Illinois University Law Review
By contrasting the lawsuits of Marion Manola and Bette Midler, this article demonstrates that the property right, often called the right of publicity, is theoretically based in the right to privacy, as extolled by Warren and Brandeis. The author concludes that it is important to understand the theoretical framework of these rights, and how they fit together, in order to appreciate the reasons for the law's protection of these particular interests.
Hedonic Damages: Emerging Issue In Personal Injury And Wrongful Death Claims, Gretchen L. Valentine
Hedonic Damages: Emerging Issue In Personal Injury And Wrongful Death Claims, Gretchen L. Valentine
Northern Illinois University Law Review
This comment provides an overview of hedonic damages by reviewing how they have been measured, when they have been awarded, and what objections have been raised to their recovery. The relationship between hedonic damages and more traditional tort damages is considered. This comment concludes that hedonic damages are a distinct form of injury that may be adequately represented and argued to a jury within the categories of disability or pain and suffering in personal injury claims. In addition, this comment urges that limited hedonic damages be awarded to the victim who is deceased or comatose.
How Privacy Got Its Gender, Anita L. Allen, Erin Mack
How Privacy Got Its Gender, Anita L. Allen, Erin Mack
Northern Illinois University Law Review
This article suggests that the right to privacy, as it was originally described by Warren and Brandeis, reflects their era's gender bias. The authors describe the social, economic and legal background for the original, gender-biased pronouncement of the right, as well as its subsequent development, and how this bias affects legal scholarship in the area today. The authors suggest that legal scholars need to be more sensitive to the gender bias that exists in privacy law, and that alternative analyses which recognize this bias already exist.
The "Inviolate Personality"--Warren And Brandeis After One Hundred Years: Introduction To A Symposium On The Right Of Privacy, Sheldon W. Halpern
The "Inviolate Personality"--Warren And Brandeis After One Hundred Years: Introduction To A Symposium On The Right Of Privacy, Sheldon W. Halpern
Northern Illinois University Law Review
An analytical groundwork for a discussion of the right to privacy, is provided by this introduction. It presents an overview of the other articles which follow, and it provides commentary on the positions of the other authors who have contributed to this symposium.
Law And Information--A Review Of The Electronic Media And The Transformation Of Law, Stephen M. Barkan
Law And Information--A Review Of The Electronic Media And The Transformation Of Law, Stephen M. Barkan
Northern Illinois University Law Review
Professor Barkan critiques the recent work of M. Ethan Katsh and concludes it is a worthy comment and analysis of the often ignored topic of law and information. Professor Barkan takes issue with some of the basic theses in the book but overall finds it to provide some intriguing insights and arguments.