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Mariana Mora, Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology, Mexico City AYOTZINAPA AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF RACIALIZED POVERTY IN LA MONTAÑA, GUERRERO, MEXICO 40 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 67 (May, 2017) This article situates the dramatic case of the forced disappearance of forty-three peasant and indigenous students from the teachers college, Ayotzinapa, in the city of Iguala, in Guerrero, on September 26, 2014, in a broader context of state violence in Mexico. What are the forces that operate to classify indigenous and peasant lives as waste,... 2017 Yes
Michael Stamm BETWEEN A ROCK AND DISCRIMINATORY PLACE: HOW SENTENCING GUIDELINES AND MANDATORY MINIMUMS SHOULD BE EMPLOYED TO REDUCE POVERTY DISCRIMINATION IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM 24 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 399 (Spring, 2017) Engraved into the United States Supreme Court Building are the words, Equal justice under law. For indigent defendants, this maxim is far from true. Indigent defendants experience discrimination at every stage of the criminal justice system because of their lower economic status. People living in poverty are arrested more often, receive... 2017 Yes
Chanae L. Wood BLACK AND POOR: THE GRAVE CONSEQUENCES OF UTAH v. STRIEFF 30 Saint Thomas Law Review 68 (Fall, 2017) Suppose a nineteen-year-old Black male, Jason, decides to watch a late night movie with friends. The group of friends meet on the corner outside of the local convenience store. However, Jason arrives early. Out of habit, he paces back and forth, as he waits for the others to arrive. Two police officers, patrolling the area for drug activity, notice... 2017 Yes
Anne M. Robertson BLOWING PAST MINNESOTA NICE: NEW OPPORTUNITIES ARISE TO UTILIZE DISPARATE-IMPACT THEORY AND PRACTICE IN TWIN CITIES LOW-INCOME HOUSING DISCRIMINATION LITIGATION 43 Mitchell Hamline Law Review 63 (2017) I. Introduction. 64 II. Housing Discrimination: What Legal Aid Sees in the Twin Cities. 67 III. The Supreme Court's 2015 Stamp of Approval for Fair-Housing Disparate-Impact Claims' Cognizability in Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. 69 A. New Jersey Legal Aid Defends Fair-Housing Rights for Low-... 2017  
Meghan Looney Paresky CHANGING WELFARE AS WE KNOW IT, AGAIN: REFORMING THE WELFARE REFORM ACT TO PROVIDE ALL DRUG FELONS ACCESS TO FOOD STAMPS 58 Boston College Law Review 1659 (November, 2017) Approximately half a million Americans are currently incarcerated for drug convictions at the state and federal level. President Clinton's 1996 enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) affects this enormous class of individuals by including a provision that places a lifetime ban on access... 2017 Yes
Emily A. Benfer CONTAMINATED CHILDHOOD: HOW THE UNITED STATES FAILED TO PREVENT THE CHRONIC LEAD POISONING OF LOW-INCOME CHILDREN AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR 41 Harvard Environmental Law Review 493 (2017) Lead poisoning has plagued society for centuries, dating back to the Roman Empire. Children and adults exposed to the neurotoxin regularly experience an elevated risk for permanent brain damage, disability, and, at higher levels, death. Despite scientific evidence of the dangers of lead, the heavy metal was commonly used throughout civilization and... 2017  
Nantiya Ruan CORPORATE MASTERS & LOW-WAGE SERVANTS: THE SOCIAL CONTROL OF WORKERS IN POVERTY 24 Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice 103 (Fall, 2017) C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 104 II. Poverty Governance as a Means of Social Control. 110 A Brief History of American Poverty Governance. 110 1. Poor Masters and Poorhouses: Early Colonial America. 110 2. Moralistic Campaigns to Improve Poor People: Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth Century Poverty Policy. 114 3. Regulating the Poor... 2017 Yes
Norman I. Silber DISCOVERING THAT THE POOR PAY MORE: RACE RIOTS, POVERTY, AND THE RISE OF CONSUMER LAW 44 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1319 (November, 2017) Introduction. 1319 I. Unraveling Dreams for a Great Society. 1320 II. Race and Economic Justice. 1321 III. The Search for Good Explanations. 1322 IV. Explaining Urban Unrest as Consumer Revolt. 1325 Conclusion. 1327 2017 Yes
Taifha N. Baker HOW TOP LAW SCHOOLS CAN RESUSCITATE AN INCLUSIVE CLIMATE FOR MINORITY AND LOW-INCOME LAW STUDENTS 9 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 123 (Fall, 2017) Diversity is being invited to the party. Inclusion is being asked to dance. --Vernâ Myers, Esq., TED Talk presenter, nationally-recognized diversity expert specializing in law school and law firm diversity trainings, and Principal of Vernâ Myers Consulting Group, LLC. C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L3124 I. Defining Terms: Minority and... 2017  
Judge Lisa Foster (Ret.) INJUSTICE UNDER LAW: PERPETUATING AND CRIMINALIZING POVERTY THROUGH THE COURTS 33 Georgia State University Law Review 695 (Spring, 2017) In 1962, in a speech to the American Bar Association, former Attorney General Robert Kennedy asked, do . minorities or people who speak our language imperfectly . or those who are poor really receive the same protection before the courts as the rest of our citizens? [A]ll too often, he said, they do not. Today, our justice system is no longer... 2017 Yes
Anthony V. Alfieri INNER-CITY ANTI-POVERTY CAMPAIGNS 64 UCLA Law Review 1374 (December, 2017) This Article offers a defense of outsider, legal-political intervention and community triage in inner-city anti-poverty campaigns under circumstances of widespread urban social disorganization, public and private sector neglect, and nonprofit resource scarcity. In mounting this defense, the Article revisits the roles of lawyers, nonprofit legal... 2017 Yes
Jonathan Simon IS MASS INCARCERATION HISTORY? FROM THE WAR ON POVERTY TO THE WAR ON CRIME: THE MAKING OF MASS INCARCERATION IN AMERICA. BY ELIZABETH HINTON. CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2016. 464 PAGES. $29.95 95 Texas Law Review 1077 (April, 2017) Introduction: The End of Mass Incarceration The Owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk. Despite Hegel's ultimately reassuring premise, it never seemed inevitable that the emergence of mass incarceration as a proper historical subject would occur simultaneously with its institutional and political demise. History, as a... 2017 Yes
Alice O'Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara KAREN M. TANI, STATES OF DEPENDENCY: WELFARE, RIGHTS, AND AMERICAN GOVERNANCE, 1935-1972 (NEW YORK: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2016). PP. XIII + 427. $34.99 (PAPERBACK). ISBN: 978-1-107-43408-0 57 American Journal of Legal History 257 (June, 2017) In this vigorously argued book, Karen Tani offers a revisionist history of the system of federally-funded poor relief put in place by the Social Security Act of 1935 and anchored in the Old Age Assistance and Aid to Dependent Children (later Aid to Families with Dependent Children, or AFDC) programs. In Tani's view this system was both... 2017 Yes
Joseph Robinson Jr. LIVE BLACK . RETIRE POOR . DIE EARLY: HOW SOCIAL SECURITY AS AN INSTITUTION CONTINUES TO PERPETUATE THE SOCIAL RACISM OF THE 1930S 24 Elder Law Journal 487 (2017) Social Security has a disparate impact on minorities. The expected rate of return for a white twenty-year-old male is over twice the rate of return that an African-American twenty-year-old male can expect. Legislative history and the circumstances surrounding the passing of the Social Security Act of 1935 indicate that there was intent to... 2017 Yes
Wendy A. Bach POOR SUPPORT / RICH SUPPORT: (RE)VIEWING THE AMERICAN SOCIAL WELFARE STATE 20 Florida Tax Review 495 (2017) Since at least the 1970s a variety of scholars have redefined the U.S. social welfare state to include not only traditional benefit programs (for example, Food Stamps and Social Security) but also a variety of tax benefits that are hidden or submerged forms of welfare for the wealthy. Including these benefits in the overall picture of U.S.... 2017 Yes
Mary Madden , Michele Gilman , Karen Levy , Alice Marwick PRIVACY, POVERTY, AND BIG DATA: A MATRIX OF VULNERABILITIES FOR POOR AMERICANS 95 Washington University Law Review 53 (2017) This Article examines the matrix of vulnerabilities that low-income people face as a result of the collection and aggregation of big data and the application of predictive analytics. On one hand, big data systems could reverse growing economic inequality by expanding access to opportunities for low-income people. On the other hand, big data could... 2017 Yes
Philip C. Aka , Chidera V. Oku , Murna Habila PROMOTING RETIREMENT SECURITY FOR LOW-INCOME WORKERS IN ILLINOIS: AN ANALYSIS AND LESSONS FOR OTHER STATES 51 Akron Law Review 367 (2017) I. Introduction. 368 II. Defining Retirement Security and Low-Income Workers. 376 III. The Janus-Face Nature of Retirement (In)Security in Illinois and Its Ramifications for Low-Income Workers. 378 A. Private-Sector Face. 379 B. Public-Sector Face. 383 C. Ramifications for Low-Income Workers. 389 IV. Six Saving Techniques for Promoting Retirement... 2017  
Sruti Swaminathan REACTION TO: WE CAN'T BREATHE: HOW TOP LAW SCHOOLS CAN RESUSCITATE AN INCLUSIVE CLIMATE FOR MINORITY & LOW-INCOME STUDENTS 9 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 153 (Fall, 2017) Taifha N. Baker powerfully uses her own experience as an African-American law student from a welfare-reliant household studying at a top law school to highlight the lack of institutional inclusivity that fosters a harmful environment for minority and low-income students. Baker's Note is unique in that it challenges institutions to not only increase... 2017  
Daniel L. Hatcher REMEMBERING ANTI-ESSENTIALISM: RELATIONSHIP DYNAMICS STUDY AND RESULTING POLICY CONSIDERATIONS IMPACTING LOW-INCOME MOTHERS, FATHERS, AND CHILDREN 35 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 239 (Summer, 2017) The Relationship Dynamics and Social Life Study (RDSL) is a new and important longitudinal study that examines the relationships, and the partners, of young unmarried women who become pregnant. One of the particularly concerning findings of the RDSL is that the relationships resulting in pregnancies were more likely to include intimate partner... 2017  
Sanford F. Schram REVISIONIST HISTORY AND THE CONTRADICTIONS OF THE NEOLIBERAL WELFARE STATE 52 Tulsa Law Review 599 (Spring, 2017) Felice Batlan, Women and Justice for the Poor: A History of Legal Aid, 1863-1945 (Cambridge University Press 2015). Pp. 250. Hardcover $98.00. Paperback $33.99.9. Eva Bertram, The Workfare State: Public Assistance Politics from the New Deal to the New Democrats (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015). Pp. 336. Hardcover $75.00. The welfare state as... 2017 Yes
Louis S. Rulli SEIZING FAMILY HOMES FROM THE INNOCENT: CAN THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT PROTECT MINORITIES AND THE POOR FROM EXCESSIVE PUNISHMENT IN CIVIL FORFEITURE? 19 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 1111 (June, 2017) Civil forfeiture laws permit the government to seize and forfeit private property that has allegedly facilitated a crime without ever charging the owner with any criminal offense. The government extracts payment in kind--property-- and gives nothing to the owner in return, based upon a legal fiction that the property has done wrong. As such, the... 2017 Yes
Amanda Arrington, Michael Markarian SERVING PETS IN POVERTY: A NEW FRONTIER FOR THE ANIMAL WELFARE MOVEMENT 18 Sustainable Development Law & Policy 40 (Fall, 2017) This article is dedicated to JC Ramos who meant so much to the Pets for Life (PFL) program. He not only inspired PFL to do more in the fight against injustice and discrimination, but he served his community with extreme dedication and compassion. There will never be another person like JC, and the PFL team was lucky to call him family. Most people... 2017 Yes
Vicki Been, Leila Bozorg SPIRALING: EVICTIONS AND OTHER CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF HOUSING INSTABILITY EVICTED: POVERTY AND PROFIT IN THE AMERICAN CITY. BY MATTHEW DESMOND. NEW YORK, N.Y.: CROWN PUBLISHERS. 2016. PP. XI, 418. $28.00 130 Harvard Law Review 1408 (March, 2017) Our discussions about the nation's housing affordability crisis usually begin with challenges in the market: the population of renters is increasing in metropolitan areas across the United States, the supply of rental housing is not keeping pace, and the supply that does exist is increasingly priced out of reach for the typical renter. Changes in... 2017 Yes
Alicia Alvarez, Susan Bennett, Louise Howells, Hannah Lieberman TEACHING AND PRACTICING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT POVERTY LAW: LAWYERS AND CLIENTS AS TRUSTED NEIGHBORHOOD PROBLEM SOLVERS 23 Clinical Law Review 577 (Spring, 2017) This article draws from the authors' experiences as lawyers and law teachers whose practices focus on resource-deprived communities. We trace our roots to the poverty and legal services lawyering similar to what Jerry López describes. Our lineage also extends from a practice which López did not describe: that of community development law, focusing... 2017 Yes
Cassandra Jones Havard THE COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACT, BANKS, AND THE LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT INVESTMENT 26 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 415 (2017) I. Introduction. 415 II. Identifying Congruencies. 417 A. LIHTC and the CRA. 417 B. Affordable Housing Success. 418 1. CRA and the LIHTC Program. 418 2. CRA and Housing Finance Agencies (HFAs). 421 III. CRA and LIHTC. 423 A. Pricing. 424 B. Syndication. 425 C. Geography. 427 IV. Proposed Reforms. 430 A. Pricing. 430 B. Syndication. 431 C.... 2017 Yes
La Darien Harris THE CRIMINALIZATION OF SCHOOL CHOICE: PUNISHING THE POOR FOR THE INEQUITIES OF GEOGRAPHIC SCHOOL DISTRICTING 44 Journal of Legislation 306 (2017) The traditional mechanism for assigning students to a given public school relies heavily on place of residence. As a result, America's public schools vary widely in racial and socioeconomic diversity. We find that inner-city schools are densely populated with minorities and low-income students, whereas schools located in suburban districts are... 2017 Yes
Khiara M. Bridges THE DESERVING POOR, THE UNDESERVING POOR, AND CLASS-BASED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION 66 Emory Law Journal 1049 (2017) This Article is a critique of class-based affirmative action. It begins by observing that many professed politically conservative individuals have championed class-based affirmative action. However, it observes that political conservatism is not typically identified as an ideology that generally approves of improving the poor's well-being through... 2017 Yes
Conor Arpey THE MULTIFACETED MANIFESTATIONS OF THE POOR DOOR: EXAMINING FORMS OF SEPARATION IN INCLUSIONARY HOUSING 6 American University Business Law Review 627 (2017) Introduction. 628 II. The Development of Inclusionary Housing Programs. 630 A. The MPDU Program's Legal and Demographic Context. 631 B. Federal Housing Discrimination Standards for Municipal Zoning Ordinances. 632 C. Statutory Changes to New York's 421-a Program. 637 III. Assessing the Viability of a Potential Disparate Impact Claim and the... 2017 Yes
Kate Masur THE PEOPLE'S WELFARE, POLICE POWERS, AND THE RIGHTS OF FREE PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT 57 American Journal of Legal History 238 (June, 2017) In addition to offering hilariously long lists of local regulations, The People's Welfare addresses some of the largest and most interesting questions in the field of U.S. history, for instance what Novak calls the fundamental tension in the coexistence of a heightened American rhetoric of individual liberty with a constant and historic readiness... 2017 Yes
Stephen B. Bright THE RICHARD J. CHILDRESS MEMORIAL LECTURE 2016 KEYNOTE: THE CONTINUING DENIAL OF COUNSEL AND ASSEMBLY-LINE PROCESSING OF POOR PEOPLE ACCUSED OF CRIMES 61 Saint Louis University Law Journal 605 (Summer, 2017) My address today concerns the problem of poverty in our court system. There are many poor people with urgent, unmet legal needs who lack access to the courts and have no ability to even confer with a lawyer about their legal problems. I am going to discuss people in the criminal courts, but it is important to mention the people with civil legal... 2017 Yes
Vanita Saleema Snow THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE JUSTICE GAP: INTEGRATING POVERTY LAW INTO THE LAW SCHOOL CURRICULUM 37 Pace Law Review 642 (Spring, 2017) Once upon a time, not so long ago, a student entered law school with a commitment to change the world. The student quickly recognized that success in first-year classes required understanding the black letter law and applying the law to various scenarios that had little to do with social justice. During the second year, the student's... 2017 Yes
Amy J. Cohen TRAUMA AND THE WELFARE STATE: A GENEALOGY OF PROSTITUTION COURTS IN NEW YORK CITY 95 Texas Law Review 915 (April, 2017) At least since the early twentieth century, informal specialized prostitution courts have tried to double as social welfare agencies. For this reason, prostitution courts illustrate in particularly explicit ways how public welfare administration and criminal court administration share similar ideas and practices and how these ideas and practices... 2017 Yes
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  
Lyanne Prieto "SHOCKING THE CONSCIENCE" OR SUFFERING AS SCAPEGOATS?: WHY THE VERGARA OPINION MISINTERPRETED THE ROLE THAT TEACHERS AND TENURE PLAY IN DISADVANTAGING POOR AND MINORITY STUDENTS 17 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 85 (2016) Since the beginning of the 20 century, tenure laws have, in many states, operated as a staple of the American education system that have served to protect public school teachers from dismissal for arbitrary reasons. Tenure laws have been an important source of teachers' procedural rights by setting forth what is required of them in order to attain... 2016 Yes
Reginald Leamon Robinson A DARK SECRET TOO SCANDALOUS TO CONFRONT: DID THE MOYNIHAN REPORT IMPLY THAT POOR BLACK CAREGIVERS' PARENTING STYLE AND CHILDHOOD CRUELTIES WERE STRONGLY CORRELATED WITH SELF-PERPETUATING PATHOLOGIES? 8 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 103 (Spring, 2016) The resistance to seeing the pain of deprived neglected, or abused children has a long history. All psychopathology constitutes primary or secondary disorders of bonding or attachment and manifests itself as disorders of self- and/or interactional regulation. In 1965 or today, any existential murder of a child, especially in the earliest years of... 2016 Yes
Raquel Smith A SEAT AT THE TABLE: CHANGING THE GOVERNING STRUCTURE OF LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION TO REFLECT CIVIL RIGHTS VALUES AND FAIR HOUSING 6 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 193 (2016) The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program is the largest existing program for the development of low-income affordable rental housing in the country. The program is administered by the United States Department of Treasury and the Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), federal agencies by statute that have regulatory and... 2016 Yes
Khaled A. Beydoun, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law; Affiliated Faculty, University of California, Berkeley Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project AMERICA, ISLAM, AND CONSTITUTIONALISM: MUSLIM AMERICAN POVERTY AND THE MOUNTING POLICE STATE 31 Journal of Law and Religion 279 (November, 2016) The Cambridge Companion to American Islam. Edited by Julianne Hammer and Omar Safi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 386. $34.99 (paper). ISBN: 9780521175524. On the Muslim Question. By Anne Norton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. 288. $28.99 (cloth). ISBN: 978-0691157047. What Is an American Muslim? Embracing Faith... 2016 Yes
Khaled A. Beydoun BETWEEN INDIGENCE, ISLAMOPHOBIA, AND ERASURE: POOR AND MUSLIM IN "WAR ON TERROR" AMERICA 104 California Law Review 1463 (December, 2016) Nearly half of the Muslim American population is interlocked between indigence and Islamophobia, or anti-Muslim animus. Of the estimated eight million Muslim Americans, 45 percent of this population earns a household income less than $30,000 per year. While this statistic clashes with pervasive stereotyping of Muslim Americans as middle class,... 2016 Yes
Jonathan Oberman , Kendea Johnson BROKEN WINDOWS: RESTORING SOCIAL ORDER OR DAMAGING AND DEPLETING NEW YORK'S POOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR? 37 Cardozo Law Review 931 (February, 2016) On February 8, 2014, with the temperature below freezing, two New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers performing a routine vertical patrol found Jerome Murdough, a homeless 56-year-old Marine veteran with a diagnosed history of mental illness, sleeping in a stairwell near the roof of an East Harlem housing project. Instead of taking him... 2016 Yes
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  
Jed Goodfellow CHAPTER 10 REGULATORY CAPTURE AND THE WELFARE OF FARM ANIMALS IN AUSTRALIA 53 IUS Gentium 195 (2016) Abstract Recent controversies over the treatment of animals within Australia's agricultural sector have raised questions over the adequacy of current governance and regulatory arrangements for farm animal welfare. Concerns have been expressed over perceived conflicts of interest on behalf of State and Federal Departments of Agriculture in... 2016 Yes
Neil L. Sobol CHARGING THE POOR: CRIMINAL JUSTICE DEBT & MODERN-DAY DEBTORS' PRISONS 75 Maryland Law Review 486 (2016) Debtors' prisons should no longer exist. While imprisonment for debt was common in colonial times in the United States, subsequent constitutional provisions, legislation, and court rulings all called for the abolition of incarcerating individuals to collect debt. Despite these prohibitions, individuals who are unable to pay debts are now regularly... 2016 Yes
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... 2016  
David N. Cassuto , Cayleigh Eckhardt DON'T BE CRUEL (ANYMORE): A LOOK AT THE ANIMAL CRUELTY REGIMES OF THE UNITED STATES AND BRAZIL WITH A CALL FOR A NEW ANIMAL WELFARE AGENCY 43 Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 1 (2016) No man who has passed a month in the death cells believes in cages for beasts. --Ezra Pound (from the Pisan Cantos) In the United States and around the world, animals exploited for human use suffer cruel and needless harm. The group bearing the brunt of this exploitation--agricultural animals--is routinely exempted from the largely... 2016 Yes
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  
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 Yes
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  
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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