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The Civil Rights Hydra, Neal Devins May 1991

The Civil Rights Hydra, Neal Devins

Faculty Publications

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Book Review, Bert B. Lockwood Jr. Jan 1991

Book Review, Bert B. Lockwood Jr.

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

The authors have made the advancements in the science of forensic anthropology achieved in these cases understandable to the lay audience and they have done so in a book that is difficult to put down once opened.


Dependency In The Welfare State: Beyond The Due Process Vision, Richard O. Lempert Jan 1991

Dependency In The Welfare State: Beyond The Due Process Vision, Richard O. Lempert

Reviews

The due process revolution has failed. Never mind that this verdict is an oversimplified exaggeration. It is closer to the truth than its opposite. Giving powerless, dependent, poor people property interests in their welfare benefits and the right to call those who exercise discretion over them legally into account does not magically cure the poverty, powerlessness, or dependency that motivated the extension of rights in the first instance. The optimistic view of legality that motivated much of the social activism of the late sixties and early seventies inevitably gives way before the reality of being poor.


Love And Chicken Soup For Free: Goldstein's Mother-Love And Abortion, Elizabeth B. Clark Jan 1991

Love And Chicken Soup For Free: Goldstein's Mother-Love And Abortion, Elizabeth B. Clark

Publications

In 1904 the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission set out its criteria for awarding medals for heroism: an unpaid actor must have voluntarily risked life and limb to rescue a victim to whom he or she was unrelated by any family tie. Such behavior toward family members was expected. In these days of perilous family life the performance of obligations associated with ongoing family relations is no longer taken for granted but has taken on new, heroic dimensions. The volunteer mother, who renders her services to her child amply and without reward, is the hero of Robert Goldstein's new book, Mother-Love …


The Myth Of The Litigation Explosion, Randy M. Mastro Jan 1991

The Myth Of The Litigation Explosion, Randy M. Mastro

Fordham Law Review

The Litigation Explorsion: What Happened When America Unleashed the Lawsuit. By Walter K. Olson. Truman Talley Books: Dutton, 1991. Pp. 338. $24.95


Book Review Of Our Lady The Common Law: An Anglo-American Legal Community, 1870-1930, By Richard A. Cosgrove, William P. Lapiana Jan 1991

Book Review Of Our Lady The Common Law: An Anglo-American Legal Community, 1870-1930, By Richard A. Cosgrove, William P. Lapiana

Other Publications

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Harlan Without Relish. Review Of John Marshall Harlan: Great Dissenter Of The Warren Court, By Tinsley E. Yarbrough, Jethro K. Lieberman Jan 1991

Harlan Without Relish. Review Of John Marshall Harlan: Great Dissenter Of The Warren Court, By Tinsley E. Yarbrough, Jethro K. Lieberman

Other Publications

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Out Of Bedlam: The Truth About Deinstitutionalization, By Ann Braden Johnson, Michael L. Perlin Jan 1991

Book Review: Out Of Bedlam: The Truth About Deinstitutionalization, By Ann Braden Johnson, Michael L. Perlin

Other Publications

No abstract provided.