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11 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. [iii] (1990-1991)
Table of Contents - Issue 1

handle is hein.journals/niulr11 and id is 3 raw text is: Northern Illinois University Law Review Volume 11 1990 Number 1 Articles Settlement Week: Measuring The Promise James G. Woodward ................................................. Consistent with a growing trend in urban trial courts, the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois has experimented with an alternative dispute resolution technique known as Settlement Week. This article examines the experience courts around the nation have had with Settlement Week and reports the findings of an empirical assessment designed to measure Settlement Week's performance as an alternative dispute resolution program in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. Waiver of Constitutional Issues in Criminal Cases: Confusion in the Illinois Supreme Court Tim othy P. O 'N eill ................................................... 55 For years, a serious problem has faced an Illinois criminal defendant who challenged the consitutionality of the statute supporting his conviction for the first time on appeal. Two contradictory lines of Illinois Supreme Court authority came to opposite conclusions on whether the issue had been waived. This article examines the failure of the Illinois Supreme Court squarely to confront this issue. Comment and Casenotes When Self Abuse Becomes Child Abuse: The Need for Coercive Prenatal Government Action in Response to the Cocaine Baby Problem Kevin D rendel .......................................................... 73 This Commentary identifies prenatal drug exposure of infants as a problem with which our society must come to terms. The judicial system is capable of providing solutions, but a void of appropriate legislation hampers that ability. Among the legal vehicles available are criminal laws, child abuse and neglect laws, civil and criminal injunc- tions, and involuntary commitment laws. A balancing of the maternal, societal, and fetal interests involved can be accomplished on a case by case basis in the absence of enabling and guiding legislation. However, legislation in this highly sensitive area is a better way. This commentary explores the problem, the possible solution, and suggests an appropriate balancing of interests.

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