| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Relevancy |
| Nikita McMillian |
FROM LOVING MOTHER TO WELFARE QUEEN TO DRUG ADDICT? LEBRON v. SECRETARY OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES AND THE EVOLVING PUBLIC VIEW OF THE POOR AS A CLASS OF SUB-HUMANS WITH SUB-RIGHTS |
35 Mississippi College Law Review 197 (2016) |
Don't Feed the Alligators! Those were the words that occupied the sign held by Florida's Congressional Representative John Mica during a 1995 House debate concerning welfare reform. Comparing welfare recipients to alligators, Representative Mica's sign exemplified how some in the public had come to perceive the poor as a class of dangerous... |
2016 |
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| Sarah Geraghty |
KEYNOTE REMARKS: HOW THE CRIMINALIZATION OF POVERTY HAS BECOME NORMALIZED IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE |
21 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 195 (Spring 2016) |
Thank you for the opportunity to be here today among such a distinguished group of scholars, advocates, and students. I am grateful to Christianna Kyriacou, Jessica Gingold, and others on the Michigan Journal of Race and Law for organizing this event. The subject of my talk today is how the criminalization of poverty has become normalized in... |
2016 |
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| Aneel L. Chablani |
LEGAL AID'S ONCE AND FUTURE ROLE FOR IMPACTING THE CRIMINALIZATION OF POVERTY AND THE WAR ON THE POOR |
21 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 349 (Spring 2016) |
INTRODUCTION. 349 I. Poverty, Race, and the Criminal Justice System. 350 II. Legal Aid and the War on the Poor. 353 III. A Model for the Future - Relevancy and Impact. 357 CONCLUSION. 360 Recent media coverage and advocacy efforts on behalf of individuals subjected to criminal sanctions as a result of their poverty status has resulted in increased... |
2016 |
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| Barbara L. Bezdek |
POLICING THAT PERPETUATES BALTIMORE'S ISLANDS OF POVERTY AND DESPAIR |
16 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 153 (Fall, 2016) |
Freddie Gray lived and died in the Sandtown neighborhood in west Baltimore, a 72-block area whose dismal, toxic, and episodically deadly physical and social realities should not be tolerable as part of the American landscape. More than one-third of its residents live below the poverty line, and 20% are unemployed. The unconstitutional policing... |
2016 |
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| Gregory R. Day , Salvatore J. Russo |
POVERTY AND THE HIDDEN EFFECTS OF SEX DISCRIMINATION: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF INEQUALITY |
37 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 1183 (Summer, 2016) |
Sexist laws are more prevalent in regions where poverty is endemic. The corollary is true as well: the places where women tend to experience better treatment are typically more highly developed. The legal academy has drawn several inferences from this observation, including the observations that poverty and the development process appear to be... |
2016 |
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| Latonia Haney Keith |
POVERTY, THE GREAT UNEQUALIZER: IMPROVING THE DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR CIVIL LEGAL AID |
66 Catholic University Law Review 55 (Fall, 2016) |
I. The Poverty Landscape--Who Needs Legal Help & Why?. 58 A. Demographics of Low-Income Populations. 59 1. Clients Eligible for LSC-Funded Civil Legal Aid. 59 2. Other Vulnerable Populations. 60 B. Civil Legal Needs of Low-Income Populations. 63 1. Cases or Matters Handled by LSC-Grantees. 63 2. Civil Legal Needs Studies. 63 3. Cases or Matters... |
2016 |
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| Maurice R. Dyson |
RETHINKING RODRIGUEZ AFTER CITIZENS UNITED: THE POOR AS A SUSPECT CLASS IN HIGH-POVERTY SCHOOLS |
24 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 1 (Fall, 2016) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 2 II. What Did Rodriguez Really Say?. 8 III. Determining Suspect Class. 12 IV. Suspect Identity & Manifestations of Poverty:. 15 A. Residential Segregation & the Racial Achievement Gap as Organizing Principles of Poverty Discrimination. 15 B. In Need of a New Theory: Poverty & Its Erection of Racial Barriers.... |
2016 |
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| Laurel Parker West, PhD |
SOCCER MOMS, WELFARE QUEENS, WAITRESS MOMS, AND SUPER MOMS: MYTHS OF MOTHERHOOD IN STATE MEDIA COVERAGE OF CHILD CARE DURING THE "WELFARE REFORMS" OF THE 1990S |
25 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 313 (Spring 2016) |
Throughout the evolution of American social policy, political debates surrounding child care have centered on competing maternal ideals--making mothers the primary target population for policy in this area. The construction of the deserving mother in child care policy debates has changed over time depending on particular economic circumstances... |
2016 |
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| Todd Jermstad, Belton, Texas |
SUBSIDIZING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM--THE COSTS OF BEING POOR A POUND OF FLESH: MONETARY SANCTIONS AS PUNISHMENT FOR THE POOR. BY ALEXES HARRIS. NEW YORK: RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION, 2016. 236 PP. $29.95 (PAPERBACK) |
80-DEC Federal Probation 55 (December, 2016) |
Much has been written about the structure and nature of the modern criminal justice system in this country. A significant focus has been placed on the phenomenon of mass incarceration, which has made the United States an outlier in Western countries, indeed the world. Researchers in turn have examined this phenomenon through the lens of class,... |
2016 |
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| Courtney G. Lee |
THE ANIMAL WELFARE ACT AT FIFTY: PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES IN ANIMAL TESTING REGULATION |
95 Nebraska Law Review 194 (2016) |
C1-3TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction. 195 II. Background of the Animal Welfare Act. 196 A. Enactment and Evolution. 196 B. Early Amendments. 197 C. Improved Standards for Laboratory Animals Act of 1985. 198 D. Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees. 201 E. IACUC Effectiveness. 203 III. Coverage of the AWA. 205 A. What Is an Animal under... |
2016 |
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| Jay Doran , Beth Leonard |
THE POWER OF STORY: HOW LEGAL AID NARRATIVES AFFECT PERCEPTIONS OF POVERTY |
15 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 333 (Fall, 2016) |
Federally funded civil legal aid was established in the 1960s as a resource for low-income populations experiencing legal issues that threatened their health, housing, family structure, personal safety, and financial security. Despite private and public investment of both time and money in civil legal aid, the critical need for legal services... |
2016 |
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| Reuben Jonathan Miller , Amanda Alexander |
THE PRICE OF CARCERAL CITIZENSHIP: PUNISHMENT, SURVEILLANCE, AND SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY IN AN AGE OF CARCERAL EXPANSION |
21 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 291 (Spring 2016) |
INTRODUCTION. 291 I. On Carceral Citizenship. 295 II. Putting Mass Supervision in its Place. 297 III. Policing Suitable Targets. 300 IV. On Risk and Responsibility. 303 V. Of Penological Interests and Varied Stakes. 306 VI. On Rights and Responsibility. 309 CONCLUSION. 311 |
2016 |
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| John N. Robinson III |
WELFARE AS WRECKING BALL: CONSTRUCTING PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY IN LEGAL ENCOUNTERS OVER PUBLIC HOUSING DEMOLITION |
41 Law and Social Inquiry 670 (Summer, 2016) |
Scholarship on welfare privatization illustrates how the process often curtails and undermines public responsibility for the poor. In this article, I examine how recipients, policy makers, and judges participate in the legal process as a means of challenging and defending privatization. I look at cases of litigation initiated by public housing... |
2016 |
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| Lisa R. Pruitt |
WELFARE QUEENS AND WHITE TRASH |
25 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 289 (Spring 2016) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 289 II. A BRIEF HISTORY OF WHITE TRASH. 291 III. WHITENESS IN CRITICAL RACE THEORY. 295 IV. CALLS FOR GREATER VISIBILITY OF WHITE POVERTY, BUT WITH WHAT CONSEQUENCES?. 299 V. HOW CAN WE ATTRACT MORE PUBLIC AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR THE POOR?. 304 VI. CONCLUSION. 309 The welfare queen is widely recognized as a racialized... |
2016 |
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| Ann Cammett |
WELFARE QUEENS REDUX: CRIMINALIZING BLACK MOTHERS IN THE AGE OF NEOLIBERALISM |
25 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 363 (Spring 2016) |
The recent outcry that has accompanied the killing of black men and boys has had the effect of shedding light on the ways in which black people are vilified in order to justify the fear and loathing of others. Historically, the high proportion of arrests and prosecutions of African American men also has shaped the discourse of crime itself,... |
2016 |
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| Kelly Elizabeth Orians |
"I'LL SAY I'M HOME, I WON'T SAY I'M FREE": PERSISTENT BARRIERS TO HOUSING, EMPLOYMENT, AND FINANCIAL SECURITY FOR FORMERLY INCARCERATED PEOPLE IN LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES OF COLOR |
25 National Black Law Journal 23 (2016) |
I. Introduction. 24 II. Context: Traditional Approaches to Reentry. 35 A. Controlling Employer Access to Information About Conviction History. 36 B. Rehabilitating People Who Are Convicted. 42 C. Providing Employers Incentives to Hire Formerly Incarcerated People and Focusing on Community Development More Generally.. 45 III. Using Conviction... |
2016 |
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| Kristin Niver |
CHANGING THE FACE OF URBAN AMERICA: ASSESSING THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT |
102 Virginia Law Review Online 48 (June, 2016) |
ON June 25, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) allocations could violate the Fair Housing Act (FHA) if used to perpetuate racially concentrated poverty. On the heels of this decision, on July 8, 2015, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued its final rule on the FHA's... |
2016 |
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| Myriam Gilles |
CLASS WARFARE: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LOW-INCOME LITIGANTS FROM THE CIVIL DOCKET |
65 Emory Law Journal 1531 (2016) |
At root, equal justice is simply the notion that law and the courts should be fair, even if life isn't. -- Justice Earl Johnson, Jr., California Court of Appeal In recent years, much attention has been paid to the startling disparities in income and wealth in contemporary U.S. society. The enormous concentration of economic power in the top 1% is... |
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| Aimee Constantineau |
FAIR FOR WHOM? WHY DEBT-COLLECTION LAWSUITS IN ST. LOUIS VIOLATE THE PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS RIGHTS OF LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES |
66 American University Law Review 479 (December, 2016) |
Debt collection has burgeoned into a thriving industry over the past decade, and it is estimated to be a $13 billion dollar business today. Yet, most of the 35% of American adults who owe an average debt of $5000 do not even know that a creditor is trying to collect the debt. In St. Louis, Missouri, over 100,000 judgments were handed down in debt... |
2016 |
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| Sarah Steadman |
FROM OUT TO IN: THE OPPORTUNITY AND NEED FOR CLINICAL LAW PROGRAMS TO EFFECTIVELY SERVE LOW-INCOME LGBT INDIVIDUALS |
26 Southern California Review of Law & Social Justice 1 (Fall, 2016) |
Although the recent legalization of same-sex marriage in the U.S. is heartening for lesbians and gays, the resulting discriminatory legislative backlash against the LGBT population shows that this community continues to be marginalized and at risk. Over two hundred anti-LGBT bills have been introduced in state legislatures since January 2016. North... |
2016 |
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| Brooke McGee |
PREGNANCY AS PUNISHMENT FOR LOW-INCOME SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS: AN ANALYSIS OF SOUTH DAKOTA'S DENIAL OF MEDICAID-FUNDED ABORTION FOR RAPE AND INCEST VICTIMS AND WHY THE HYDE AMENDMENT MUST BE REPEALED |
27 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 77 (Fall, 2016) |
Beginning at dawn, Jane drives over 450 miles from her small town of Buffalo, South Dakota to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to obtain an abortion for an unintended pregnancy. Spending over seven hours in her car without a break, Jane arrives at the only clinic that offers abortion services in the state. Once there, she meets with the doctor scheduled... |
2016 |
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| Deborah N. Archer , Tamara C. Belinfanti |
WE BUILT IT AND THEY DID NOT COME: USING NEW GOVERNANCE THEORY IN THE FIGHT FOR FOOD JUSTICE IN LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES OF COLOR |
15 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 307 (Fall, 2016) |
Meet Anthony. Anthony is eighteen years old and lives with his mother, Mary, in Anacostia, a residential neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C. There are no supermarkets in his neighborhood--the closest grocery store is 20 minutes away by bus. One or two corner stores in the neighborhood sell milk, cereal, and other packaged foods. Mary shops... |
2016 |
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| Stephen Wizner |
POVERTY LAW, POLICY, AND PRACTICE JULIET M. BRODIE, CLARE PASTORE, EZRA ROSSER & JEFFREY SELBIN. ASPEN/WOLTERS KLUWER, 2014 |
22 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 441 (Winter, 2015) |
What should law students learn about poverty and its relationship to law? What is the doctrinal or theoretical subject matter that justifies a separate course in law and poverty? Are there laws and legal issues that specifically or uniquely relate to people living in poverty? Does law play a role in creating and maintaining poverty? Can law reduce... |
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| Stephen B. Bright |
THE ROLE OF RACE, POVERTY, INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, AND MENTAL ILLNESS IN THE DECLINE OF THE DEATH PENALTY |
49 University of Richmond Law Review 671 (March, 2015) |
Capital punishment is a difficult and sensitive topic because it involves terrible tragedies, the murder of innocent people, loss and suffering, and the passions of the moment. It is used in only a very small percentage of cases in which it could be imposed and is currently in decline. Six states have recently abandoned it, and the number of death... |
2015 |
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| Bret D. Asbury |
"BACKDOOR TO EUGENICS"? THE RISKS OF PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS FOR POOR, BLACK WOMEN |
23 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 1 (Fall 2015) |
This article is situated at the intersection of three of the conference's stated subject areas: Race and Healthcare, Reproductive Rights, and Race and the Family. My recent research has focused on the manner in which pregnant women who learn of fetal genetic abnormalities prenatally receive counseling as they decide whether to terminate or bring... |
2015 |
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| Thomas H. Koenig, Michael L. Rustad |
DIGITAL SCARLET LETTERS: SOCIAL MEDIA STIGMATIZATION OF THE POOR AND WHAT CAN BE DONE |
93 Nebraska Law Review 592 (2015) |
I. Introduction. 593 II. The Benefits and Hidden Costs of Expanded Social Media Access. 602 A. Race, Class, and Internet Access. 602 B. The Persistence of the Digital Divide. 603 C. The Social Media Digital Divide. 604 D. The Benefits of Increased Social Media Access. 606 1. The Internet as an Engine of Equality. 606 2. Providing Economic and... |
2015 |
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| R.J. Delahunty |
DOES ANIMAL WELFARE TRUMP RELIGIOUS LIBERTY? THE DANISH BAN ON KOSHER AND HALAL BUTCHERING |
16 San Diego International Law Journal 341 (Spring, 2015) |
Western European governments since the eighteenth century Enlightenment have frequently enacted laws and regulations that have adverse effects (sometimes intended) on traditional Jewish ritual practices, including Sabbath observance, dress, and dietary practices. Regulations of the latter kind have often been adopted in the name of sparing animals... |
2015 |
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| Alexia Herwig , Gregory Shaffer |
EDITORS' INTRODUCTION: TRADE, ANIMAL WELFARE, AND INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES: A SYMPOSIUM ON THE WTO EC--SEAL PRODUCTS CASE |
108 AJIL Unbound 282 (March, 2014-July, 2015) |
The World Trade Organization (WTO) Appellate Body's (AB) decision in the EC-- Seal Products case of May 2014 has stirred considerable debate among legal academics regarding several of its findings and interpretations. The decision touches upon hotly debated issues in WTO law's reading and application that have broad public policy implications. The... |
2015 |
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| Dr. Mel Cousins |
EQUAL PROTECTION: IMMIGRANTS' ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE AND WELFARE BENEFITS |
12 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 21 (Winter 2015) |
The adoption of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (hereinafter PRWORA) led to considerable litigation over immigrants' rights to welfare benefits and access to health care. The approaches adopted by different courts (both federal and state) diverged significantly based on the various statutory schemes... |
2015 |
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| Matthew D. Adler |
EQUITY BY THE NUMBERS: MEASURING POVERTY, INEQUALITY, AND INJUSTICE |
66 Alabama Law Review 551 (2015) |
Introduction. 551 I. Equity Metrics: An Overview. 559 A. Inequality Metrics. 560 B. Social Welfare Functions. 566 C. Poverty Metrics. 569 D. Social-Gradient Metrics. 573 E. A Summary. 576 II. Why the Pigou-Dalton Principle? A Generic Justification. 579 III. What Is The Best Currency for the Pigou-Dalton Principle?. 583 IV. Should the Pigou-Dalton... |
2015 |
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| Alexandra Natapoff |
GIDEON'S SERVANTS AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF POVERTY |
12 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 445 (Spring, 2015) |
Table of Contents I. Introduction. 445 II. The Criminalization of the Welfare State. 450 III. Putting Welfare Back Into Criminal Law Enforcement. 453 A. Specialty Courts. 454 B. Community Prosecution. 455 C. Police. 456 IV. The Bridging Role of Public Defenders. 459 V. Crime, Poverty, Legal Roles and Rules. 462 Every day, in public defender offices... |
2015 |
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| Marc-Tizoc González |
HUNGER, POVERTY, AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF FOOD SHARING IN THE NEW GILDED AGE |
23 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 231 (2015) |
Introduction. 232 I. New Gilded Age?. 236 A. Critiquing the Imagery of Poverty in the New Gilded Age: Inequality in America . 238 B. What was Gilt? - The White Supremacy and Imperialism of the First Gilded Age. 245 1. What was Gilt? - The Ending of Radical Reconstruction, Destruction of Interracial Labor Populism, and Rise of Jim Crow. 250 2.... |
2015 |
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| Matthew Stockwell |
ON THE FRINGE OF DISABILITY: GENETICS, OBESITY, POVERTY, PREGNANCY AND THEIR PLACE IN SOCIETY |
3 Mid-Atlantic Journal on Law and Public Policy 118 (Summer, 2015) |
Disability is part of the human condition. Almost every one of us will be permanently or temporarily disabled at some point in life. We must do more to break the barriers which segregate people with disabilities, in many cases forcing them to the margins of society. ~ WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan I. INTRODUCTION. 118 II. EXAMPLE. 119... |
2015 |
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| Jaime Alison Lee |
POVERTY, DIGNITY, AND PUBLIC HOUSING |
47 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 97 (Winter 2015) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction II. Culturalism and its Harms III. Countering Culturalism with Dignity a. Conditions Cases and The Due Process Revolution b. Applications in Public Housing i. Conditions ii. Adjudications iii. Rulemaking c. Culturalist Challenges to Procedure d. The Persistence of Culturalism IV. Extending Dignity a. Dignity... |
2015 |
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| Alexander Wohl |
POVERTY, EMPLOYMENT, AND DISABILITY |
32 GPSolo 74 (July/August, 2015) |
At a time when many U.S. policymakers increasingly are focused on the issue of poverty and economic disparity as an important and neglected social problem, a particularly striking set of statistics is one often ignored: the disproportionately high level of poverty among Americans with disabilities. It is just the latest outgrowth of a long history... |
2015 |
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| Jennifer E.K. Kendrex |
PUNISHING THE POOR THROUGH WELFARE REFORM: CRUEL AND UNUSUAL? |
64 Duke Law Journal Online 121 (March, 2015) |
In America's earliest days, punishment for being poor extended beyond poverty's unpleasant, concomitant circumstances--nagging hunger, tattered clothing, vagrancy--to include community-inflicted sentences such as banishment, whippings, and auctioning off the poor like slaves. American attitudes towards the impoverished may have transitioned from... |
2015 |
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| Elizabeth L. MacDowell |
REIMAGINING ACCESS TO JUSTICE IN THE POOR PEOPLE'S COURTS |
22 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 473 (Spring, 2015) |
Access to justice efforts have been focused more on access than justice, due in part to the framing of access to justice issues around the presence or absence of lawyers. This article argues that access to justice scholars and activists should also think about social justice and provides a roadmap for running a legal services program geared toward... |
2015 |
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| Joy Moses |
REVISITING THE WAR ON POVERTY: HOW POLICY CAN BETTER SHAPE THE INCOME AND WAGES OF FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN |
18 University of the District of Columbia Law Review 78 (Spring, 2015) |
Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched a War on Poverty while delivering his first State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. His language conveyed ambitious plans to recreate American society: This budget, and this year's legislative program, are designed to help each and every American citizen fulfill his basic hopes--his... |
2015 |
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| Mirko Bagaric |
RICH OFFENDER, POOR OFFENDER: WHY IT (SOMETIMES) MATTERS IN SENTENCING |
33 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 1 (Winter, 2015) |
The problem of economically and socially disadvantaged offenders is one of the most perplexing issues in sentencing. It is a worldwide phenomenon that people from disadvantaged backgrounds are convicted of more crimes and sentenced to imprisonment than other people. It has been suggested that this often occurs for reasons that are not within the... |
2015 |
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| Karen M. Tani |
STATES' RIGHTS, WELFARE RIGHTS, AND THE "INDIAN PROBLEM": NEGOTIATING CITIZENSHIP AND SOVEREIGNTY, 1935-1954 |
33 Law and History Review 1 (February, 2015) |
What distinguishes the American Indians from other native groups is . the nature of their relationship with a government which, while protecting their welfare and their rights, is committed to the principles of tribal self-government and the legal equality of races. Felix S. Cohen, Chairman, Board of Appeals, United States Department of Interior... |
2015 |
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| Proshanti Banerjee |
THE HARM PRINCIPLE AT PLAY: HOW THE ANIMAL WELFARE ACT FAILS TO PROTECT ANIMALS ADEQUATELY |
15 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 361 (Fall 2015) |
A walk down the street in any urban setting presents a number of common scenarios. Some of the most distinct features of a city are social inequalities relating to wealth and power, non-agricultural production, and a heavy population within a restricted space. However, there are other subtle undertones occurring in a city that are not obvious to a... |
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THE NEW PROFILING: WHY PUNISHING BASED ON POVERTY AND IDENTITY IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND WRONG |
2015 Federal Sentencing Reporter 1911734 (April 1, 2015) |
Let's begin with a thought experiment. Suppose a judge is sentencing two co-defendants, Jones and Smith, for a smallscale cocaine trafficking offense, having found that both were equal contributors to their conspiracy. Neither has a criminal record, both express sincere remorse, and no mandatory minimum applies. The judge sentences Jones to... |
2015 |
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| Spencer Rand |
THE REAL MARRIAGE PENALTY: HOW WELFARE LAW DISCOURAGES MARRIAGE DESPITE PUBLIC POLICY STATEMENTS TO THE CONTRARY--AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT |
18 University of the District of Columbia Law Review 93 (Spring, 2015) |
Couples regularly complain about marriage penalties, discovering that the tax consequences of marrying make the cost of marriage prohibitive. Although attempts were made in the last decade to reduce those penalties for the middle class, the poor were not helped by these changes. Along with tax penalties, including low-income wage earners facing... |
2015 |
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| Starla J. Williams |
VIOLENCE AGAINST POOR AND MINORITY WOMEN & THE CONTAINMENT OF CHILDREN OF COLOR: A RESPONSE TO DOROTHY E. ROBERTS |
24 Widener Law Journal 289 (2015) |
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. On Friday, August 1, 2014--as I reflected on my remarks for this symposium-- an eight-year-old, little boy was found dead in his home two doors down from my house on Green Street. His mother and father were taken into custody by the Harrisburg police as his five brothers and... |
2015 |
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| Conor Colasurdo |
WELFARE ON FIRE: THE EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT IS NOT ENOUGH TO EXTINGUISH POVERTY |
54 Journal of Catholic Legal Studies 1 (2015) |
Introduction. 2 I. A Marxist Pope? The Francis-Rawlsian Framework for Social Institutions Based on Human Dignity. 5 II. Welfare Without Stigma? The EITC in Action. 9 A. Legal Aspects of the EITC. 10 B. Political History of the EITC. 11 C. Political Rhetoric and the Popularity of the EITC. 13 III. As the Big Gun in the War on Poverty, the EITC Is a... |
2015 |
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| Liz Clark Rinehart |
ZONED FOR INJUSTICE: MOVING BEYOND ZONING AND MARKET-BASED LAND PRESERVATION TO ADDRESS RURAL POVERTY |
23 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 61 (Fall, 2015) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 62 I. The Distinct Problems of Rural Communities. 63 A. Environmental Challenges: The Myth of the Pristine Countryside. 64 1. Sprawl. 64 2. Agricultural Pollution. 66 B. Social and Economic Problems. 68 1. Demographics. 68 2. Children, Families, and Welfare Programs. 69 3. Jobs. 70 4. Financial Infrastructure and... |
2015 |
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| John J. Infranca |
HOUSING RESOURCE BUNDLES: DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND FEDERAL LOW-INCOME HOUSING POLICY |
49 University of Richmond Law Review 1071 (May, 2015) |
Less than one in four income-eligible households receives some form of rental assistance from the federal government. In contrast with other prominent public benefit programs--including Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) and unemployment insurance--no time limit is placed on the assistance provided through the Department of Housing and Urban... |
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| Michael David Williams |
LAND COSTS AS NON-ELIGIBLE BASIS: ARBITRARY RESTRICTIONS ON STATE POLICYMAKING AUTHORITY IN THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT PROGRAM |
18 NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 335 (2015) |
Introduction. 336 I. The Location Decision. 339 A. Quantity Versus Quality. 339 B. The Importance of Neighborhood. 343 1. Education. 347 2. Health. 348 3. Economic Self-Sufficiency. 349 4. Public Safety. 350 II. Incentives in the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program. 351 A. The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program. 352 1. Applicable Fraction and... |
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| Ann Shalleck |
THOUGHT AND ADVOCACY ABOUT STUDENT DEBT: REPRESENTATION OF LOW-INCOME BORROWERS IN LAW SCHOOL CLINICAL PROGRAMS |
48 Suffolk University Law Review 751 (2015) |
The legal academy, through clinical legal education, has the potential to make a distinctive contribution to thought and advocacy about student debt. Clinical education can further, in immediate and powerful ways, the classic research, teaching, and service missions of legal education by addressing the problems posed by student debt for society and... |
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| Gene Nichol |
RACE, POVERTY, AND "CURRENT CONDITIONS" |
49 Wake Forest Law Review 791 (Fall 2014) |
I have been a constitutional law professor for a very long time. So it's not surprising, perhaps, that when the United States Supreme Court handed down the Shelby County decision--invalidating a core component of the iconic Voting Rights Act --I would receive some media calls about the opinion. Over and again, folks brought up Chief Justice... |
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