Dec 3, 2012 | Lead Articles, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 45
Work-family policy debate in the United States has focused on work and the workplace, and has presumed its primary beneficiaries are women. Women’s increased participation in the workplace brought the conflict between work and family sharply into view, and generated...
Nov 13, 2012 | Lead Articles, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 45
Federal sentencing law is in the midst of a period of profound change. In 1984, responding to concerns about excessive judicial discretion in sentencing, Congress created the United States Sentencing Commission to promulgate the United States Sentencing Guidelines...
Nov 12, 2012 | Lead Articles, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 45
Chapter 278, section 33E of the Massachusetts General Laws guarantees every first-degree murder defendant direct review in the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), skipping the intermediate Massachusetts Appeals Court. It also grants a more lenient standard of review. This...
Nov 12, 2012 | Lead Articles, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 45
Since its founding in 1878 the American Bar Association (ABA) has served the legal profession in two principal ways: by limiting membership in the profession, and by protecting its prerogatives. It has done so by: advocating a system of licensing backed by...
