Journal of Contemporary Law Vol. 24 nos. 1-2

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Articles: Cumulative Voting and the Religious Right: In the Best Interest of Democracy?; "We're All Stuck Here for a While": Law and the Social Construction of the Black Male; Recent Developments: Kansas v. Hendricks: Civil Commitment of Violent Sexual Predators Upheld as Constitutional by the United States Supreme Court; National Basketball Association v. Motorola, Inc.: Does the copyright Act Partially Preempt State Misappropriation Claims?; Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union: Supreme Court Strikes down Portions of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 as Facially Overbroad in Violation of the First Amendment; Klehr v. A.O. Smith Corporation: The Supreme Court Attempts to Define the Statute of Limitations and the Application of the Fradulent Concealment Doctrine in Civil RICO Actions; City of Boerne v. Flores: Supreme Court Strikes Down Religious Freedom Restoration Act as Unconstitutional Exercise of Legislative Authority; Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western New York: Floating Buffer Zonese Created by Injunctioin Violate First Amendment Free Speech; Washington v. Glucksberg and Vacco v. Quill: Prohibitions on Assisted Suicide Do Not Violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution; Fay Printz v. united States: Supreme Court Declares Brady Act's Review of Handgun Application Requirement Unconstitutional; Agostini v. Felton: The Gnat is Swallowed, the Camel Goes Free; clinton v. Jones: The Supreme Court Refuses to Expand the Doctrine of Presidential Immunity to Encompass a President's Unofficial Acts. No. 2: CONTENTS: Articles: Romer and the Limits of Legitimacy: stripping Opponents of Gay and Lesbian Rights of Their "First Line of Defense" in the Same-Sex marriage Fight; The Rationality of Normative Expectations; Essay: Rethinking Rethinking; Comment: Utah's Children: Better Protected than Most by New Civil Sex Offender Incapacitation Lwas; Notes: From Baby m. to Jaycee B.: Fathers, Mothers, and Children in the Brave new World; Midwifery: Do Parents have a Constitutional Right to Choose the Site, Process, and Attendant for the Birth of Their Baby?