INTRODUCTION|In Stone v. Powell, the Supreme Court of the United States put the states on notice that they would become increasingly the last fora for the adjudication of the rights of criminally accused. The decision's ...

INTRODUCTION|"Dissent," Daniel J. Boorstin has written, "is the great problem of America today. It overshadows all others. It is a symptom, an expression, a consequence, and a cause of all others." Indeed, one cannot escape ...

FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|When all is said and done, Barbara Green will be remembered as a person who loved to teach. An accomplished pianist, a gourmet chef, a doting mother, this Smith College graduate joined the Creighton ...

FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|The tension between church and state is most glaringly highlighted in the issues surrounding education. The question of prayer in the public schools, while resolved in the Supreme Court of the United ...

INTRODUCTION|The collegiate press is big business. In the state of Nebraska alone, the newspapers of the University of Nebraska system and the state colleges reach more than thirty-four thousand readers. In some communities ...

Despite more than a generation of superb and often provocative literature concerning it,' informed consent remains the bete noire of the medical malpractice doctrine.

For six decades, American schools have been the major battleground in the controversy surrounding the doctrine of separation of church and state. This struggle, inevitably, pits claims that public agents have violated the ...

The 2000 presidential election spotlighted an ancient institution and focused attention on the question of whether it should be altered or abolished as America enters the 21st century.