The Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to furthering discussion of legal aspects of public interest priorities relating to the many crucial political, economic, and social issues facing under-represented people.
Submissions from 2005
The Battle for Public Interest Law: Exploring the Orwellian Nature of the Freedom Based Public Interest Movement, Timothy L. Foden
Not All Children are Created Equal: A Proposal to Address Equal Protection Inheritance Rights of Posthumously Conceived Children, Julie E. Goodwin
Reassessing Packer in the Light of International Human Rights Norms, Farkhanda Zia Mansoor
The Transparency Myth: A Conceptual Approach to Corruption and the Impact of Mandatory Disclosure Laws, Justin M. Sadowsky
Submissions from 2004
Singleton v. Norris: Exploring the Insanity of Forcibly Medicating, then Eliminating the Insane, Sarah F. DePanfilis
The Patient and Physician Safety and Protection Act: Crucial Federal Legislation to Improve the Lives of Residents and Patients, Tracey B. Ehlers
Post-Gideon Developments in Law and Lawyering, Timothy H. Everett
Police Brutality and Citizen Complaints, Harvey Gee
The Role of Child's Counsel in State Intervention Proceedings: Toward a Rebuttable Presumption in Favor of Family Reunification, Andrew Hoffman
One Man's Junk Mail Is Another Man's Treasure: Proxy Contests and Corporate Governance, Erica Laudano
The Transparency Myth: A Conceptual Approach to Corruption and the Impact of Mandatory Disclosure Laws, Jeffrey Matrullo
Live and Let Live:Healthcare is a Fundamental Human Right, Anita Pereira
Maintaining the Legitimacy of the High Court:Understanding the “25 Years” in Grutter v. Bollinger, Vijay S. Sekhon
The End of the World as We Know It? The State of Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Technologies in the Wake of Metro-Goldwin-Mayer Studios v. Grokster, Michael Suppappola
Identity Theft: Are the Elderly Targeted?, Erin L. Sylvester
The Legal Rights of Disabled Infants to Receive Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment, Jeannine Wyszkowski
Submissions from 2003
"NO, NO, NO, NO!": Three Sons of Connecticut Who Opposed the Chinese Exclusion Acts, Henry S. Cohn and Harvey Gee
Megan's Law Symposium - Presented Paper, Robert Del Tufo
The Zoning of Group Homes for the Disabled...Zeroing in on a Reasonable Accommodation, Elizabeth A. L. Leamon
Defending an Unjust System: How Johnson v. Bush Upheld Felon Disenfranchisement and Perpetuated Voter Inequality in Florida, Nathan P. Litwin
Book Review: Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court v. the American People, by Jamin B. Raskin, Brian P. Marron
Margin of Appreciation Gone Awry: The European Court of Human Rights' Implicit Use of the Precautionary Principle in Frette v. France to Backtrack on Protection from Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Orientation, Thomas Willoughby Stone