by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | May 7, 2016 | Volume 67, Issue 4
Kate E. Bloch and Jeffrey Gould Volume 67, Issue 4, 913-56 Insanity law in the United States embodies a convoluted collection of often ill-defined standards. The wrongfulness test, which is used in most U.S. jurisdictions, requires a determination of whether the...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | May 7, 2016 | Volume 67, Issue 4
Netta Barak-Corren Volume 67, Issue 4, 957-1022 What role should the behavioral reality of conflicts regarding gender, sexuality, and religious convictions play in the theory and doctrine of antidiscrimination law? Although the past several decades have seen...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | May 7, 2016 | Volume 67, Issue 4
Sarah Sherman-Stokes Volume 67, Issue 4, 1023-66 In this Article, I examine the current regime for making mental competency determinations of mentally ill and incompetent noncitizen respondents in immigration court. In its present iteration, mental competency...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | May 7, 2016 | Volume 67, Issue 4
Teneille R. Brown, James Tabery, and Lisa G. Aspinwall Volume 67, Issue 4, 1067-86 What makes a study valid or invalid? In 2013, the Hastings Law Journal published a law review article by law professor Deborah Denno entitled What Real-World Cases Tell Us About Genetic...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | May 7, 2016 | Volume 67, Issue 4
Taryn Jones Volume 67, Issue 4, 1087-118 In Williams v. Illinois, the division of the U.S. Supreme Court created substantial confusion as to the proper application of the Confrontation Clause to forensic witnesses. In the decision, the Court affirmed the conviction of...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | May 7, 2016 | Volume 67, Issue 4
Michael J. Montgomery Volume 67, Issue 4, 1119-52 The U.S. health care system is expensive, fragmented, poorly organized, and fails too often to deliver high quality care that is both accessible and cost efficient. In 2014, Americans spent an estimated $3.1 trillion...
by technology@hastingslawjournal.org | May 7, 2016 | Volume 67, Issue 4
Sarah M. Winfield Volume 67, Issue 4, 1153-80 After over a decade of advocacy on behalf of women fleeing their home countries because of horrific domestic violence, practitioners and legal scholars obtained a precedential legal victory in August 2014. In In re...