Today the American system of criminal justice in every phase is suffering from a severe case of deferred maintenance. (Author)

Review of legislative trends focuses upon Australian statutory provisions. (KW)

List of legal and moral rights and responsibilities of foster parents, to which readers are invited to submit additions or revisions in preparation for a National Conference of Foster Parents, October, 1970. (NH)

Emphasis on winning, instead of sportsmanship, and a surge in spectator demand for brute force are factors used to explain why sports are becoming increasingly violent. Legal questions are identified related to sports violence that have emerged from criminal and civil court cases. (SR)

Recent sports labor disputes emphasize unionism and collective action, not individual negotiations. Legal and economic parallels between the 1982 National Football League strike, the Los Angeles Raiders antitrust case, and the importance of collective bargaining to football players are discussed. (SR)

Reports that daily newspaper editors feel that they are no less aggressive but may be more careful as a result of recent decisions by the United States Supreme Court. (FL)

Discusses the issue of protection of computer software in an expanding market. Presents the legal questions arising from attempts to invoke protection from patent, copyright, and trade secret laws. (JMF)

Considers systems for the classification of handwriting features, discusses computer storage of information about handwriting features, and summarizes recent studies that give an idea of the range of forensic handwriting research. (GT)

Discusses varying viewpoints on the legality of videotaping commercial television broadcasts off the air for classroom and library use. (LS)

The internship program at Illinois State University provides quality control without resorting to a contractual system that introduces potential legal problems. (KS)

States that the Supreme Court's 1996 ruling in Romer v. Evans is widely seen as a significant extension of civil rights to gays and lesbians. Offers a reading of the case that eschews traditional and formalistic legal analysis in favor of more critical approaches to understanding the role of law in lived experience and communal life. (PA)

Surveys 1,000 practitioners' knowledge of legal issues connected with professional public relations activities. Finds that most practitioners consider themselves only somewhat familiar with the law in the areas of commercial speech, contracts, financial public relations, copyright, privacy, libel, access to information, Securities and Exchange…

This volume lays out the essential arguments for the need for standard setting in educational assessment, discusses standard-setting methods and applications, and reviews current issues in standard setting, including legal challenges. (SLD)

Reviews ten Web sites that are designed to answer basic legal questions for the layperson. They provide resources on a broad range of legal topics, such as divorce, real estate, and criminal justice, as well as legal forms and information on finding a lawyer. (LRW)