Texas Law Review back issues from December 2007:
Democracy and Decriminalization
Dec 01, 2007; ... One of the great and intractable weaknesses of American democracy is its inability to create and maintain rational criminal law policy. The politics of crime are perennially perverse: the electorate demands that legislatures enact more crimes and tougher sentences, and no interest groups or ...
The Constitutional Right to Make Medical Treatment Decisions: A Tale of Two Doctrines
Dec 01, 2007; ... The Supreme Court has taken very different approaches to the question whether individuals have a right to make autonomous medical treatment choices, depending on the context. For example, in cases concerning the right to choose "partial-birth " abortion and the right to use medical marijuana, ...
On Misshapen Stones and Criminal Law's Epistemology
Dec 01, 2007; ... On Misshapen Stones and Criminal Law's Epistemology TRUTH, ERROR, AND CRIMINAL LAW: AN ESSAY IN LEGAL EPISTEMOLOGY. By Larry Laudan. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 254. $75.00. "[L]awyers have learned to love misshapen stones in grotesque structures. But the strain ...
A Legislative Solution: Solving the Contemporary Challenge of Forced Waiver of Privilege*
Dec 01, 2007; ... "The attorney-client privilege . . . is a fundamental element of the American system of justice, and I fear that we have been all too slow in recognizing how seriously the privilege has been undermined in the past several years by Government action." -Former Attorney General Dick ...
Rights and Regulations: Academic Freedom and a University's Right to Regulate the Student Press*
Dec 01, 2007; ... Among the multitude of roles the First Amendment serves, the creation of a marketplace of ideas is arguably its most basic and vital function. By protecting freedom of speech, press, assembly, and expression, the First Amendment acts as a true guardian of democracy, facilitating the thought, ...