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Alan J. Meese REFRAMING THE (FALSE?) CHOICE BETWEEN PURCHASER WELFARE AND TOTAL WELFARE 81 Fordham Law Review 2197 (April, 2013) This Article critiques the role that the partial equilibrium trade-off paradigm plays in the debate over the definition of consumer welfare that courts should employ when developing and applying antitrust doctrine. The Article contends that common reliance on the paradigm distorts the debate between those who would equate consumer welfare with... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
Mark Neal Aaronson REPRESENTING THE POOR: LEGAL ADVOCACY AND WELFARE REFORM DURING REAGAN'S GUBERNATORIAL YEARS 64 Hastings Law Journal 933 (April, 2013) Justice, justice shall you pursue . . . --Deuteronomy 16:20 Introduction. 935 I. Perspectives on Lawyering for Social Change. 937 A. The Case Study and Its Contemporary Relevance. 937 B. The Political Controversy over Policy Impact Legal Advocacy for the Poor. 942 1. The Functions of Group Legal Representation. 942 2. Separating Political Rhetoric... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
Vicki Lens REVISITING THE PROMISE OF KELLY v. GOLDBERG IN THE ERA OF WELFARE REFORM 21 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 43 (Fall, 2013) Over forty years ago, the Supreme Court in Kelly v. Goldberg held that due process protections applied to statutorily provided welfare benefits. The Goldberg Court spoke graciously and generously about the poor, observing that we have come to recognize that forces not within the control of the poor contribute to their poverty and that welfare was... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
Christopher Watts ROAD TO THE POLL: HOW THE WISCONSIN VOTER ID LAW OF 2011 IS DISENFRANCHISING ITS POOR, MINORITY, AND ELDERLY CITIZENS 3 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 119 (2013) The right to vote has been irrefutably established as one of the most treasured and fundamental rights guaranteed to citizens by the United States Constitution, and Wisconsin's Act 23 (Act 23) violates this standard. In May 2011, the Wisconsin legislature passed this act, which mandated that any person attempting to vote in person or via absentee... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
Terence Dougherty SECTION 501(C)(4) ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS: POLITICAL CANDIDATE-RELATED AND OTHER PARTISAN ACTIVITIES IN FURTHERANCE OF THE SOCIAL WELFARE 36 Seattle University Law Review 1337 (Spring, 2013) In the wake of the 2012 presidential election, tax and political law lawyers are left with a number of unanswered questions concerning the political activities of tax-exempt organizations. Under what circumstances may a tax-exempt advocacy organization conduct activities in support of candidates for political office and in furtherance of other... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
Khiara M. Bridges TANF AND THE END (MAYBE?) OF POOR MEN 93 Boston University Law Review 1141 (May, 2013) I. Defining the End of Men. 1141 II. TANF's Ambivalence: Get a Job/Get a Husband. 1147 A. The Call to Work. 1148 B. The Call to Marry. 1151 C. The Call to Marry Within the Call to Work. 1153 III. Excising Pathology from Descriptions of Indigent, Female-Headed Households. 1155 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
Stephanie Brault THE DIMINISHED PRIVACY RIGHTS OF WELFARE RECIPIENTS: LEGITIMACY DERIVED FROM SOURCES BEYOND LEGALITY 18 Nexus: Chapman's Journal of Law & Policy 81 (2012-2013) Since 2007, policy makers in over thirty states have proposed more than sixty bills to impose drug testing requirements as a condition to receiving public assistance. This surge in mandatory drug testing proposals has its origins in the federal welfare reforms of 1996. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
Emily Naser-Hall THE DISPOSABLE CLASS: ENSURING POVERTY CONSCIOUSNESS IN NATURAL DISASTER PREPAREDNESS 7 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 55 (Fall 2013) Jackie, a woman of mixed race heritage and mother of four children, lost her home during Hurricane Katrina. After the storm, she and her children lived for months in a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) trailer outside her hometown of New Orleans. Jackie, her children and her boyfriend shared a small trailer registered in her boyfriend's... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
Joshua D. Wright , Douglas H. Ginsburg THE GOALS OF ANTITRUST: WELFARE TRUMPS CHOICE 81 Fordham Law Review 2405 (April, 2013) The evolution of U.S. Supreme Court antitrust jurisprudence over the past fifty years is well known. As one of us has written, [f]orty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court simply did not know what it was doing in antitrust cases. The Court interpreted the Sherman and Clayton Acts to reflect a hodgepodge of social and political goals, many with an... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
Michele Estrin Gilman THE POVERTY DEFENSE 47 University of Richmond Law Review 495 (January, 2013) Is stealing a loaf of bread to feed a starving family of eight a crime? Or, is poverty a defense? In Victor Hugo's classic, Les Misérables, the protagonist, Jean Valjean, commits this crime and is sentenced to five years of hard labor. Hugo clearly intends the reader to sympathize with Valjean. The punishment not only seems grossly disproportionate... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
John P. Gross TOO POOR TO HIRE A LAWYER BUT NOT INDIGENT: HOW STATES USE THE FEDERAL POVERTY GUIDELINES TO DEPRIVE DEFENDANTS OF THEIR SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO COUNSEL 70 Washington and Lee Law Review 1173 (Spring, 2013) I. Introduction. 1174 II. Meaningful Access to Justice or Meaningless Ritual. 1175 III. How States Decide Who Is Too Poor to Hire a Lawyer. 1184 IV. Using the Federal Poverty Guidelines to Determine Eligibility. 1193 V. Using the Economy Food Plan to Determine Who Can Afford to Hire an Attorney. 1204 VI. Eligible for Food Stamps but Ineligible... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
Jackie Baker WELFARE, TAXPAYERS, AND THE CONSTITUTION: A LOOK INTO MANDATORY DRUG TESTING FOR THE NEEDY 14 Thomas M. Cooley Journal of Practical and Clinical Law 199 (2013) Crisis surrounds our economy. The unemployment rate in our country has reached nearly ten percent of the working population, with less than sixty percent of the labor force actually employed. Schools face budget cuts, forcing academics and extracurricular activities to suffer. Our nation's children are no longer getting the best education possible... 2013 Relevant (Poverty)
Cameryn Rivera A FRESHER LAW: AMENDING THE FLORIDA RIGHT TO FARM ACT TO INCLUDE URBAN MICRO FARMING AS A KEY INITIATIVE TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABILITY, FOOD ACCESS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOR LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES 8 Florida A & M University Law Review 385 (Spring, 2013) Introduction. 386 I. The History and Evolution of Urban Micro Farming: From Victory Gardens to Big City Farms. 388 II. Food Policy Concerns in Florida. 395 A. Tallahassee: Maintaining Sustainable Principles. 396 B. Jacksonville: The Necessity of Food Security. 397 C. Orlando: The Negative Impacts of Food Injustice. 401 III. The Florida Right To... 2013  
Kaaryn Gustafson DEGRADATION CEREMONIES AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF LOW-INCOME WOMEN 3 UC Irvine Law Review 297 (May, 2013) This Article, a call for both empirical social scientists and critical race theorists to engage with each other in careful interpretive analysis, applies sociologist Harold Garfinkel's concept of ceremonial degradation to policies, practices, and proposals targeting low-income women of color in the United States. This Article offers several... 2013  
Laurie S. Kohn ENGAGING MEN AS FATHERS: THE COURTS, THE LAW, AND FATHER-ABSENCE IN LOW-INCOME FAMILIES 35 Cardozo Law Review 511 (December, 2013) Introduction. 512 I. Trends in Father-Absence. 516 II. Barriers to Paternal Engagement. 519 A. Relational Barriers to Paternal Engagement. 521 B. Structural Barriers to Father-Presence. 523 C. Role Barriers to Paternal Engagement. 525 1. Role Ambiguity. 525 2. Dissatisfaction with the New Role. 526 D. Social Norm Barriers to Paternal Engagement.... 2013  
The Honorable Shannon E. Avery, Aaron Merki THE LEGAL NEEDS OF LOW-INCOME LGBT MARYLANDERS 46-OCT Maryland Bar Journal 38 (September/October, 2013) For same-sex couples in Maryland, 2012 was a victorious year. Marriage equality is profoundly sig-nificant to same-sex families, both pragmatically and symbolically For low-income people, marriage equality is, in essence, a short form contract that makes available thousands of rights, benefits, and to hire tax and estate counsel. In addition,... 2013  
Robert A. Rapoza and Sarah Mickelson THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT: OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN RURAL AMERICA 23-NOV Journal of Multistate Taxation and Incentives 26 (November/December, 2013) It is critically important that lawmakers and the public understand the role the LIHTC plays in financing affordable rental housing in rural communities. Although the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC, codified in IRC Section 42) is widely considered one of the nation's most successful housing programs, many lawmakers and advocates are often... 2013  
Rabia Belt "AND THEN COMES LIFE": THE INTERSECTION OF RACE, POVERTY, AND DISABILITY IN HBO'S THE WIRE 13 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 1 (2012) Despite its low ratings and lack of Emmys or Golden Globes, The Wire has caught and kept the attention of critics, academics, and others interested in the urban landscape. More than one critic has called The Wire the greatest show ever on television. The brainchild of David Simon, a former journalist at the Baltimore Sun and the author of Homicide:... 2012 Most Relevant
Cristina Gallo MARRYING POOR: WOMEN'S CITIZENSHIP, RACE, AND TANF POLICIES 19 UCLA Women's Law Journal 61 (Spring 2012) I. Introduction. 62 II. The Legacy of the Family Wage. 67 A. Work and Citizenship in the Civil War Era. 67 B. The Emergence of the Family Wage. 68 C. Freedom, Citizenship, and the Family Wage in the Postbellum Era. 72 III. Women's Welfare: Mother's Pensions, Aid to Dependent Children, and the Advent of the Modern U.S. Welfare State. 78 A. The... 2012 Most Relevant
Wendy A. Bach MOBILIZATION AND POVERTY LAW: SEARCHING FOR PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY AMID THE ASHES OF THE WAR ON POVERTY 20 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 96 (Fall 2012) In 1964, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, the federal government launched Community Action, a program that was to be designed and implemented with the maximum feasible participation of the poor. Today in governance theory, we are told once again that participation by affected communities in the mechanisms of governance has the ability to... 2012 Most Relevant
Priscilla A. Ocen THE NEW RACIALLY RESTRICTIVE COVENANT: RACE, WELFARE, AND THE POLICING OF BLACK WOMEN IN SUBSIDIZED HOUSING 59 UCLA Law Review 1540 (August, 2012) This Article explores the race, gender, and class dynamics that render poor Black women vulnerable to racial surveillance and harassment in predominately white communities. In particular, this Article interrogates the recent phenomenon of police officers and public officials enforcing private citizens' discriminatory complaints, which ultimately... 2012 Most Relevant
Kaitlyn Murphy THE PRICE OF PROGRESSIVE POLITICS: THE WELFARE RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN AN ERA OF COLOR BLIND RACISM BY ROSE ERNST. NEW YORK: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2010, 189 PP. $49.00 HARDBACK 27 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 350 (Summer 2012) Even single-interest advocacy groups are not monolithic. Although everyone in the women's movement ostensibly cares about women's rights, the policy changes that benefit some women do not benefit all women equally. The priorities for a working mother who is African American may not be the same priorities as those of white college students with no... 2012 Most Relevant
Matthew Shin THE RACE TO GET IN, AND THE STRUGGLE TO GET OUT: THE PROBLEM OF INTER-GENERATIONAL POVERTY IN FEDERAL HOUSING PROGRAMS 40 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 337 (2012) Escap[ing] public housing projects is a colloquial phrase describing the plight of people struggling to escape publicly subsidized housing projects and assistance programs. This feat often entails overcoming obstacles of considerable magnitude. Even in a modestly performing economy, a given federally subsidized tenant will find innumerable... 2012 Most Relevant
Benjamin Zimmer A DEREGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR ALLEVIATING CONCENTRATED AFRICAN-AMERICAN POVERTY 9 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 555 (Summer 2012) In 1967, Norman Rockwell released the painting New Kids in the Neighborhood, which depicts an African-American family moving to a white suburb. The painting focuses on the interaction of the family's children with three white children in the driveway of their new home. The children eye each other with trepidation, but their faces convey more... 2012 Relevant (Poverty)
Jeremy Kaplan-Lyman A PUNITIVE BIND: POLICING, POVERTY, AND NEOLIBERALISM IN NEW YORK CITY 15 Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal 177 (2012) Narrowly conceived, neoliberalism is a system of economic ideas and policy initiatives that emphasize small government and market-based solutions to social and economic problems. Adopted in response to the fiscal, welfare and racial crises of the Keynesian state, neoliberalism has become the dominant governing principle in the United States over... 2012 Relevant (Poverty)
john a. powell CONSTITUTIONALISM AND THE EXTREME POOR: NEO-DRED SCOTT AND THE CONTEMPORARY "DISCRETE AND INSULAR MINORITIES" 60 Drake Law Review 1069 (Summer 2012) This symposium issue addresses a range of questions concerning the Constitution and the poor. In this Essay, I will share some initial thoughts responsive to what has already been presented in this issue of the Drake Law Review and what was discussed during the symposium, and then I will turn to the question at hand and attempt to introduce a few... 2012 Relevant (Poverty)
Tamar R. Birckhead DELINQUENT BY REASON OF POVERTY 38 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 53 (2012) This Article, written for the 12th Annual Access to Equal Justice Colloquium, explores the disproportionate representation of low-income children in the U.S. juvenile justice system. It examines the structural and institutional causes of this development, beginning with the most common points of entry into delinquency court--the child welfare... 2012 Relevant (Poverty)
Daniel L. Hatcher DON'T FORGET DAD: ADDRESSING WOMEN'S POVERTY BY RETHINKING FORCED AND OUTDATED CHILD SUPPORT POLICIES 20 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 775 (2012) Introduction. 775 I. Modern Day Bastardy Acts. 777 A. Historical Treatment of Children and Unwed Parents. 778 B. Child Support Cooperation Requirements Today. 779 1. TANF and Other Public Assistance. 780 2. Impact of Forced Paternity and Child Support. 781 C. Incarcerated Fathers.. 784 D. Interaction with the Child Welfare System. 785 II. Gender,... 2012 Relevant (Poverty)
Betsy Walters ISLAMIC MICROFINANCE: SUSTAINABLE POVERTY ALLEVIATION FOR THE MUSLIM POOR 11 Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal 255 (Spring-Summer, 2012) At the end of 2010, despite long-fought, multi-lateral wars on poverty and billions of dollars in aid to poverty-stricken countries, half of the world's population-over three billion people-was still living below the poverty line. These people know a world where 22,000 children under age five die every day as a direct result of poverty; a world... 2012 Relevant (Poverty)
Janet L. Wallace , Lisa R. Pruitt JUDGING PARENTS, JUDGING PLACE: POVERTY, RURALITY, AND TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS 77 Missouri Law Review 95 (Winter, 2012) Parents are judged constantly, by fellow parents and by wider society. But the consequences of judging parents may extend beyond community reputation and social status. One of the harshest potential consequences is the state's termination of parental rights. In such legal contexts, the state assesses parents' merits as parents in relation to a wide... 2012 Relevant (Poverty)
Emily M. Cordell MRS. GAY MEET MISS POOR: WHAT THE GAYS HAVE DONE FOR POOR PEOPLE 47 University of San Francisco Law Review 133 (Summer 2012) THIS COMMENT WILL LOOK at the recent developments in constitutional jurisprudence emerging from the major gay rights decisions and consider how the developments may apply to poor people. First, this comment will examine how the attention given to the responsible procreation argument in the same-sex marriage debate has the potential to halt its... 2012 Relevant (Poverty)
Khiara M. Bridges POOR WOMEN AND THE PROTECTIVE STATE 63 Hastings Law Journal 1619 (August 1, 2012) This Article puts poor, pregnant women's current experience with the state into conversation with the science of prenatal and early childhood brain development and looks at the effect on women's autonomy of government regulation of individual behaviors that may harm fetal brain development. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork with poor, pregnant... 2012 Relevant (Poverty)
Frank I. Michelman POVERTY IN LIBERALISM: A COMMENT ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL ESSENTIALS 60 Drake Law Review 1001 (Summer 2012) I. Introduction: Antipoverty Liberalism?. 1001 II. A State Obligation to Counteract Poverty: Two Kinds of Reasons. 1006 A. Humanity-Based Reasons. 1006 B. Political Reasons. 1008 III. A Fly in the Ointment? The Reduction of Justice by Legitimacy. 1014 IV. Substance and Procedure. 1017 V. Transparency and Adjudication. 1019 VI. Philosophy,... 2012 Relevant (Poverty)
Ezra Rosser POVERTY OFFSETTING 6 Harvard Law & Policy Review 179 (Winter 2012) The market now offers consumers an expanding array of options to offset the harms of their consumption. Travel websites and politicians alike sell the advantages of carbon offsetting. But offsetting options need not be limited to correcting for environmental harm; consumption is also associated with worker exploitation and people struggling with... 2012 Relevant (Poverty)
Dawinder S. Sidhu THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF URBAN POVERTY 62 DePaul Law Review 1 (Fall 2012) The founding generation, stung and aggrieved by a history of repeated injuries and usurpations in England, laid down a charter of laws that placed a robust set of individual liberties beyond governmental intrusion or interference. Thomas Jefferson termed the United States an empire of liberty that would safeguard and perpetually restore... 2012 Relevant (Poverty)
Julie Andersen Hill TRANSACTION ACCOUNT FEES: DO THE POOR REALLY PAY MORE THAN THE RICH? 15 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law 65 (Fall 2012) During the Great Recession and its aftermath, customers became increasingly concerned about the fees banks charge for checking (transaction) accounts. Some believe that banks' fee structures are unfair. In particular, commentators often assert that high overdraft and other fees paid by poor consumers cross-subsidize free accounts for rich consumers... 2012 Relevant (Poverty)
Karen M. Tani WELFARE AND RIGHTS BEFORE THE MOVEMENT: RIGHTS AS A LANGUAGE OF THE STATE 122 Yale Law Journal 314 (November, 2012) In conversations about government assistance, rights language often emerges as a danger: when benefits become rights, policymakers lose flexibility, taxpayers suffer, and the poor lose their incentive to work. Absent from the discussion is an understanding of how, when, and why Americans began to talk about public benefits in rights terms. This... 2012 Relevant (Poverty)
Matthieu Chemin , McGill University WELFARE EFFECTS OF CRIMINAL POLITICIANS: A DISCONTINUITY-BASED APPROACH 55 Journal of Law & Economics 667 (August, 2012) This paper uses unique data on the criminal records of Indian bureaucrats to examine the relationship between politicians' criminality and consumption, crime, and corruption. The identification relies on a regression discontinuity design by which individuals living in districts where a criminal politician was barely elected are compared with... 2012 Relevant (Poverty)
Julie A. Nice WHITHER THE CANARIES: ON THE EXCLUSION OF POOR PEOPLE FROM EQUAL CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION 60 Drake Law Review 1023 (Summer 2012) I. Introduction. 1024 II. The Economic and Political Predicament of Poor People. 1025 III. The Exclusionary Effects of Constitutional Interpretation. 1029 A. The Instrumental Role of Constitutional Interpretation. 1030 B. Recent Examples of Constitutional Disregard. 1031 C. Deconstitutionalization and Dandridge v. Williams. 1033 D. Constitutional... 2012 Relevant (Poverty)
Tonya L. Brito FATHERS BEHIND BARS: RETHINKING CHILD SUPPORT POLICY TOWARD LOW-INCOME NONCUSTODIAL FATHERS AND THEIR FAMILIES 15 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 617 (Spring 2012) Since September 2005, Michael Turner has been incarcerated on six different occasions for nonpayment of child support. His prison terms total over three years in jail. He currently owes over $20,000 in unpaid child support, and while he remains in prison on his current sentence, he will accumulate even more debt that he is unable to pay. After his... 2012  
Anthony J. Guida Jr , David Figuli HIGHER EDUCATION'S GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT AND 90/10 RULES: UNINTENDED "SCARLET LETTERS" FOR MINORITY, LOW-INCOME, AND OTHER AT-RISK STUDENTS 79 University of Chicago Law Review 131 (Winter 2012) Proprietary institutions of higher education, sometimes called career colleges since they focus on degrees that are more vocationally oriented postgraduation, provide a pathway to a postsecondary credential for approximately 3.2 million students across the country. Due to access to capital and scalable infrastructures, which allow proprietary... 2012  
Joseph Karl Grant A CONVERSATION WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA: A DIALOGUE ABOUT POVERTY, RACE, AND CLASS IN BLACK AMERICA 1 University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review 25 (2011) Introduction. 26 I. Housing in Black America. 31 II. Education in Black America. 35 III. Employment in Black America. 38 IV. Access to Capital in Black America. 40 Conclusion. 45 2011 Most Relevant
Jose R. Padilla CALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE: THE STRUGGLES AND CONTINUED SURVIVAL OF A POVERTY LAW PRACTICE 30 Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review 163 (2011) In the small towns of America and the State of California . . . [the migrant and the Chicano migrant] had no one to resort to except the lawyer that was representing the Chamber of Commerce or the farmer or the farm corporation, the fellow that would hesitate to take a case because once having taken it, he would lose the business of the commercial... 2011 Most Relevant
Bruce A. Boyer , Amy E. Halbrook ADVOCATING FOR CHILDREN IN CARE IN A CLIMATE OF ECONOMIC RECESSION: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POVERTY AND CHILD MALTREATMENT 6 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 300 (Spring, 2011) In a groundbreaking paper published nearly fifty years ago, Dr. Henry Kempe and his colleagues coined the term battered-child syndrome, defining for the first time child maltreatment in pathological terms. Dr. Kempe's work is often recognized as the catalyst for our modern child welfare system due to its role in generating heightened public... 2011 Relevant (Poverty)
Brian Gilmore AGAIN AND AGAIN WE SUFFER: THE POOR AND THE ENDURANCE OF THE "WAR ON DRUGS" 15 University of the District of Columbia Law Review 59 (Fall 2011) Our drug policy has become a tale of two cities, or more accurately a tale of two classes - one rich and one poor. - Congressmen Donald Payne Rather, the drug war is crafted to target poor peasants abroad and poor people at home; by use of force, not constructive measures to alleviate the problems that allegedly motivate it, at a fraction of... 2011 Relevant (Poverty)
Krista Yacovone BROWNFIELDS AND THE POOR: IS CLEANUP A HAZARDOUS WASTE OF TIME? AN ANALYSIS OF THE UNITED STATES' EFFORTS AT REMEDIATION AND THEIR APPLICABILITY TO BRAZIL 35 Fordham International Law Journal 201 (December, 2011) L1-2INTRODUCTION . R3202. I. BROWNFIELD REMEDIATION EFFORTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE EFFECTS ON THE POOR. 207 A. Brownfield Revitalization Framework in the United States. 207 B. Brownfield Revitalization and Poverty Amelioration. 215 1. Brownfield Sites and the Connection to Poverty. 215 2. Sustainable Development and Positive Effects on the... 2011 Relevant (Poverty)
Sagit Mor DISABILITY AND THE PERSISTENCE OF POVERTY: RECONSTRUCTING DISABILITY ALLOWANCES 6 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 178 (Winter, 2011) Disability policy has always been deeply immersed in questions relating to the relationships between disability and poverty. These efforts began as early as the Poor Laws of eighteenth century England. They were further enhanced by the rise of the modern welfare state, and culminated twenty years ago with the enactment of the Americans with... 2011 Relevant (Poverty)
Mark C. Weber DISABILITY RIGHTS, WELFARE LAW 32 Cardozo Law Review 2483 (July, 2011) This Article asks how disability rights ideas can be reconciled with--and might transform--the law of public assistance. The social model of disability forms the basis of most disability rights thinking. This model recognizes that impairments do not by themselves disable, but disability instead arises from a dynamic between a person's physical and... 2011 Relevant (Poverty)
Daniel J. Gifford DOMINANCE, INNOVATION, AND EFFICIENCY: MODIFYING ANTITRUST AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DOCTRINES TO FURTHER WELFARE 40 Hofstra Law Review 437 (Winter 2011) I. Introduction. 437 II. Patent Law and Price Discrimination. 439 A. The Patent System's Tradeoff Between Innovation and Market Power. 439 B. Section 271 of the Patent Act. 443 1. Independent Ink, Inc. and the Patent Misuse Doctrine. 443 3. A Tentative Economic Evaluation of Section 271. 448 a. The Economics of Section 271. 448 b. The Case of the... 2011 Relevant (Poverty)
CT Turney GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, AND YOUR QUEER: THE NEED AND POTENTIAL FOR ADVOCACY FOR LGBTQ IMMIGRANT DETAINEES 58 UCLA Law Review 1343 (June, 2011) As immigration detention has increased in the United States over the past two decades, legislative changes have placed LGBTQ immigrants at a higher risk of being detained because of deportation policies that focus on poverty-related crime and increasingly stringent asylum requirements. Once detained, these immigrants are subjected to significantly... 2011 Relevant (Poverty)
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