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New York Law School Magazine, Vol. 28, No. 1, New York Law School

New York Law School Magazine

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Professor David Schoenbrod Breaks Through the Environmental Logjam

Graduate Programs Thrive and Multiply at New York Law School: Fifth Anniversary of the Graduate Tax Program and a New LL.M. in Real Estate

Everybody Is Making Love/Or Else Expecting Rain: Considering The Sexual Autonomy Rights Of Persons Institutionalized Because Of Mental Disability In Forensic Hospitals And In Asia, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

One of the most controversial policy questions in all of institutional mental disability law is the extent to which patients in psychiatric hospitals have a right to voluntary sexual interaction. The resolution of this matter involves the resolution of difficult and sensitive questions of law, social policy, clinical judgment, politics, religion, and family structures.

As difficult as these questions are in cases involving civil hospitals, the difficulties are exacerbated when the topic is the application of the right in forensic hospitals. Such facilities typically house individuals involved in the criminal justice system (either those who may be incompetent to stand …

Humanity Law: A New Interpretive Lens On The International Sphere, Ruti Teitel

Articles & Chapters

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Editorial-Transitional Justice Globalized, Ruti G. Teitel

Articles & Chapters

Interest in transitional justice has surged in legal scholarship, in the human rights field generally and most notably in the domain of politics. ‘Transitional justice’ is an expression I coined in 1991 at the time of the Soviet collapse and on the heels of the late 1980’s Latin American transitions to democracy. In proposing this terminology, my aim was to account for the self-conscious construction of a distinctive conception of justice associated with periods of radical political change following past oppressive rule. Today we see that an entire field of inquiry, analysis and practice has ensued that reflects scholarly interest; …

Simplify You, Classify You: Stigma, Stereotypes And Civil Rights In Disability Classification Systems, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

In this paper I consider the question of the extent to which sanism and pretextuality - the factors that contaminate all of mental disability law - do or do not equally contaminate the special education process, and the decision to label certain children as learning disabled. The thesis of this paper is that the process of labeling of children with intellectual disabilities implicates at least five conflicts and clusters of policy issues:

* The need to insure that all children receive adequate education

* The need to insure that the cure is not worse than the illness (that is, that …

2007 Commencement Program, New York Law School

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March 2007 Alumni Newsletter, New York Law School

Alumni Newsletters

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Faculty And Staff Facebook And School Directory: 2007-2008, New York Law School

New York Law School Facebooks

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Falling To Pieces: New York State Civil Legal Remedies Available To Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender Survivors Of Domestic Violence, Sharon Stapel

NYLS Law Review

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Rocks, Hard Places, And Unconventional Domestic Violence Victims: Expanding Availability Of Civil Orders Of Protection In New York, Sarah E. Warne

NYLS Law Review

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The Modern-Day Poll Tax: How Economic Sanctions Block Access To The Polls, Erika L. Wood, Neema Trivedi

Articles & Chapters

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Endless Emergency: The Case Of Egypt, Sadiq Reza

Articles & Chapters

The Arab Republic of Egypt has been in a declared state of emergency continuously since 1981 and for all but three of the past fifty years. Emergency powers, military courts, and other exceptional powers are governed by longstanding statutes in Egypt and authorized by the constitution, and their use is a prominent feature ofeveryday rule there today. This essay presents Egypt as a case study in what is essentially permanent governance by emergency rule and other exceptional measures. It summarizes the history and framework ofemergency rule in Egypt, discusses the apparent purposes and consequences of that rule, mentions judicial limitations …

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NYLS Bulletins and Catalogs

2007

But Did They Listen? The New Jersey Death Penalty Commission's Exercise In Abolitionism: A Detailed Reply, Robert Blecker

Articles & Chapters

Based upon the nearly unanimous recommendation of its Death Penalty Study Commission, New Jersey seems poised to become the first state in the modern era to legislatively abolish capital punishment and substitute life without parole. Hailed nationally and internationally as thoughtful and fair, the Commission's final report consistently distorts the evidence, displays an anti-retributive bias, and worst of all, ignores basic well-established perspectives framing the great debate, avoiding at all costs the question of justice.

Unbalanced and biased, the Commission does not even consider any alternative to abolition or standing pat. This essay directly engages the Report on its findings …

Ain't No Goin' Back: Teaching Mental Disability Law Courses Online, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

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An Internet-Based Mental Disability Law Program: Implications For Social Change In Nations With Developing Economies, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

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Hepatitis C In Prisons: Evolving Toward Decency Through Adequate Medical Care And Public Health Reform, Andrew Brunsden

Articles & Chapters

Hepatitis C (HCV) in prisons is a public health crisis tied to current drug policy's emphasis on the mass incarceration of drug users. Prison policy acts as a barrier to HCV care by limiting medical care for the infected, especially drug users, and by inhibiting public health measures addressing the epidemic. This Comment argues that courts mistakenly limit prisoners' Eighth Amendment right to basic medical care when they defer to prisons that apply HCV policies as categorical rules of treatment. Where current standards of care mandate individualized patient evaluation for treatment, prison policies that eschew this principle exhibit deliberate indifference …

Student Facebook And School Directory: 2006-2007, New York Law School

New York Law School Facebooks

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2006 Commencement Program, New York Law School

Commencement Programs

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Faculty And Staff Facebook And School Directory: 2006-2007, New York Law School

New York Law School Facebooks

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Faculty And Staff Facebook And School Directory: 2006-2007, New York Law School

New York Law School Facebooks

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Transnational Criminal Law And Procedure: An Introduction, Sadiq Reza

Articles & Chapters

This preface to papers from the criminal law and procedure panels of the AALS Workshop on Integrating Transnational Legal Perspectives Into the First-Year Curriculum, which took place in Washington D.C. in January 2006, suggests a typology of transnational criminal matters - namely, matters of foreign criminal law or procedure, comparative criminal law or procedure, international criminal law or procedure, and extraterritorial aspects of domestic criminal law or procedure - and points readers to other publications on teaching transnational criminal matters in law school. The piece thus introduces the reader not only to the papers from the workshop but to teaching …

Through The Looking-Glass At The Brady Doctrine: Some New Reflections On White Queens, Hobgoblins, And Due Process, Eugene Cerruti

Articles & Chapters

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Transitional Justice: Postwar Legacies (Symposium: The Nuremberg Trials: A Reappraisal And Their Legacy), Ruti Teitel

Articles & Chapters

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Judicial Review Under The Immigration And Nationality Act: Habeas Corpus And The Coming Of Real Id (1996-2005), David M. Mcconnell

NYLS Law Review

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Incarcerated Men And Women, The Equal Protection Clause, And The Requirement Of “Similarly Situated”, Natasha L. Carroll-Ferrary

NYLS Law Review

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Reforming The Crime Of Libel, Clive Walker

NYLS Law Review

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Reviving Constitutionalism In Iraq: Key Provisions Of The Interim Constitution, His Excellency Feisal Amin Al-Istrabadi

NYLS Law Review

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Worker Centers: Organizing Communities At The Edge Of The Dream, Janice Fine

NYLS Law Review

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People V. Yu, Barbara Yan

NYLS Law Review

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