by JASON M. SZANYI and KATARINA GUTTMANNOVA
This past term, in Ricci v. DeStefano,[1] the Supreme Court reshaped employment discrimination litigation. In a decision that garnered significant notoriety both for its potential impact on the future …
by WILLIAM M. SAGE
Last year, retail medical clinics seemed to be the next wave in American health care. Following the example set by banks and beauticians, dozens of cheap, convenient sites offering basic medical diagnosis …
by DANIEL P. TOKAJI
Posterity will recall 2008 as the year in which the United States of America elected its first African American President. It may also be remembered as heralding a new era in American …
by ADAM J. LEVITIN
The United States is in the midst of the most serious home foreclosure crisis since the Great Depression, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke of “one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.” Over …
by DOUGLAS A. BERMAN
Progressives have long played a leading role in reforming punishment practices and sentencing norms in the United States. In the nineteenth century, progressives pioneered a move away from brutal physical punishments toward …
by KEVIN M. CLERMONT and STEWART J. SCHWAB
Five years ago we surveyed how employment discrimination plaintiffs fared in federal court.1 We wrote in summary that they have a tough row to hoe. Compared to other …
by DEBORAH M. GOLDEN
The United States incarcerates a higher percentage of its residents than any other country on earth. One out of every hundred people in this country lives behind bars. One in every thirty …
by ANDREW BRUCK
The first New York Times wedding announcement to feature a gay couple described how Steven Goldstein and Daniel Gross met. The relationship began with a self-deprecating personal ad in the Washington City Paper, …
by SERGE GROSSMAN and MICHAEL SIMON
On September 11, 2001, the United States witnessed devastating attacks on the nation’s political and financial capitals. Almost immediately, the American people demanded answers as to how their intelligence agencies, …
by Cheryl S. Bratt, Bradley W. Moore, and Colin W. Reingold
In 1973, the Supreme Court decided in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez that education is not a fundamental right. The Court noted that …
by PRISCILLA HUANG
At the start of 2008, news of a “baby boomlet” made headlines. For the first time in 35 years, the U.S. fertility rate, or average number of children born to each woman, reached …
by WILLIAM P. QUIQLEY
When Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005, I was inside a New Orleans hospital with my wife, who is a nurse, and about 2000 other people. Windows in our hospital started exploding …
