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Daniel J. Hemel, Lisa Larrimore Ouellette VALUING MEDICAL INNOVATION 75 Stanford Law Review 517 (March, 2023) Abstract. Scholars and policymakers across the ideological spectrum agree that the U.S. drug pricing system is deeply flawed. Most reform proposals focus on one symptom: high prices for existing drugs. But high prices aren't all that ails the U.S. drug pricing system: Current law also provides weak incentives for medical innovation across wide... 2023  
Catherine Powell WAR ON COVID: WARFARE AND ITS DISCONTENTS 70 UCLA Law Review Discourse 2 (2023) L1-2TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction. 4 I. Wartime Framework: Presidential Overreach and Underreach. 10 A. Presidential Rhetoric: Using a War Framing for the COVID-19 Crisis. 10 B. Presidential Power and Legal Authority. 12 C. Executive Underreach and Overreach. 14 D. Executive Underreach and Overreach during the Trump Administration. 15 E. Executive... 2023  
Heather Payne, Jennifer D. Oliva WARRANTYING HEALTH EQUITY 70 UCLA Law Review 1030 (October, 2023) The United States is experiencing a significant rise in the prevalence of asthma and other debilitating respiratory and cardiovascular ailments that disproportionately burden low income and marginalized Americans. This is due in large measure to climate change, which is responsible for increasingly devastating air quality events--including... 2023  
Yuvraj Joshi WEAPONIZING PEACE 123 Columbia Law Review 1411 (June, 2023) American racial justice opponents regularly wield a desire for peace, stability, and harmony as a weapon to hinder movement toward racial equality. This Essay examines the weaponization of peace historically and in legal cases about property, education, protest, and public utilities. Such peace claims were often made in bad faith and with little or... 2023  
Charisa Smith WHEN COVID CAPITALISM SILENCES CHILDREN 71 University of Kansas Law Review 553 (May, 2023) The lingering COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in policy developments that mar child and family wellbeing while effectively suppressing U.S. children in civic life. Although the prevailing framework for child-parent-state conflicts already antagonized families and disenfranchised youth, COVID Capitalism threatens to silence children on virtually... 2023  
Alison Peebles WHEN PERMANENCY IS PERMANENT SEPARATION: IN THE FAMILY REGULATION SYSTEM, A TEMPORARY REMOVAL FAST TRACKS TERMINATING PARENTS' RIGHTS 31 Journal of Law & Policy 197 (2023) The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) is a federal law that creates a mandate for states to move to terminate parents' rights if a child has been in foster care for fifteen out of the twenty-two most recent months. The federal government then pays states for each adoption over a set threshold amount, which has resulted in terminating over two... 2023  
Erika K. Wilson WHITE CITIES, WHITE SCHOOLS 123 Columbia Law Review 1221 (June, 2023) Across the country, violent tactics were employed to create and maintain all-white municipalities. The legacy of that violence endures today. An underexamined space in which that violence endures is within school districts. Many school district boundary lines encompass geographic areas that were created as whites-only municipalities through both... 2023  
Deborah M. Weissman WHO NEEDS THE STATE?: WE DO (MAYBE) 101 North Carolina Law Review 1261 (June, 2023) The interdependency between private needs and public support is nowhere set in as sharp relief than in the relationship between the family and the State. Families, perhaps the most intimate of all social arrangements, depend upon government safety net guarantees to families in need. But the norm of State support to families is a condition that... 2023  
Sonia M. Suter , The George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC, USA WHY REASON-BASED ABORTION BANS ARE NOT A REMEDY AGAINST EUGENICS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY 10 Journal of Law & the Biosciences 1 (January-June, 2023) In Box v Planned Parenthood, Justice Thomas wrote an impassioned concurrence describing abortions based on sex, disability or race as a form of modern-day eugenics'. He defended the challenged Indiana reason-based abortion (RBA) ban as a necessary antidote to these practices. Inspired by this concurrence, legislatures have increasingly enacted... 2023  
Logan K. Jackson WILLFUL DISREGARD: HOW IGNORING STRUCTURAL RACISM IN MATERNAL MORTALITY HAS LED BLACK WOMEN TO BECOME INVISIBLE IN THEIR OWN CRISIS 38 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 131 (2023) Indeed, in important respects, if the general discourse that surrounds racial disparities in maternal mortality is impoverished, then we should expect that the solutions that observers propose to this problem will be impoverished as well. Introduction. 132 I. The Historical Legacy of Slavery on Black Women's Reproductive Health and Autonomy. 134 A.... 2023  
Charisa Smith YOUTH VISIONS AND EMPOWERMENT: RECONSTRUCTION THROUGH REVOLUTION 75 Rutgers University Law Review 825 (Spring, 2023) We've had this idea of growing up thinking, what the heck is this? What the heck is going on? .. [T]his isn't right. This is crazy. We need a whole new system .. OK, you guys might have been raised to think that this system benefits you, but you've been brainwashed. Let us give it to you straight. --Lily Mandel at age seventeen, organizer at Bucks... 2023  
Helen Sprainer AIR QUALITY EQUITY: WHY THE CLEAN AIR ACT FAILED TO PROTECT LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR FROM COVID-19 30 New York University Environmental Law Journal 123 (2022) The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic highlight the many ways in which low-income communities and communities of color suffer disproportionate harms during a disaster. This pandemic is an environmental injustice because the inequitable development and enforcement of our environmental laws has left some communities more at risk for serious infection... 2022  
Emily R.D. Murphy BRAINS WITHOUT MONEY: POVERTY AS DISABLING 54 Connecticut Law Review 699 (May, 2022) The United States has long treated poverty and disability as separate legal and social categories, a division grounded in widespread assumptions about the deserving and undeserving poor. In the case of disability, individuals generally are not thought to be morally responsible for their disadvantage, whereas in the case of poverty, individuals... 2022 Yes
Gregory E. Louis BRIDGING THE TWO CULTURES: TOWARD TRANSACTIONAL POVERTY LAWYERING 28 Clinical Law Review 411 (Spring, 2022) As U.S. society emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic that decimated Black and Brown communities and law schools reexamine their curricula after the summer of 2020, a moment of interest convergence has emerged: the need for legal education to matter for Black and Brown livelihoods. This Article proposes a concrete measure for meeting this moment.... 2022 Yes
Ritsuko Kurita , Kanagawa University COPING WITH WELFARE SHAME: RESPONSES OF URBAN INDIGENOUS AND NON-INDIGENOUS PEOPLES TO "MUTUAL OBLIGATION" REQUIREMENTS IN AUSTRALIA 45 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 171 (November, 2022) This article examines how Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in cities navigate welfare and the mutual obligation regime in Australia. Since the introduction of the mutual obligation requirements (MORs) and the accompanying Work for the Dole program, initially for Indigenous and later for non-Indigenous welfare beneficiaries, welfare recipients... 2022 Yes
Michele Estrin Gilman EXPANDING CIVIL RIGHTS TO COMBAT DIGITAL DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF POVERTY 75 SMU Law Review 571 (Summer, 2022) Low-income people suffer from digital discrimination on the basis of their socio-economic status. Automated decision-making systems, often powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence, shape the opportunities of those experiencing poverty because they serve as gatekeepers to the necessities of modern life. Yet in the existing legal... 2022 Yes
Michael Tubbs FEDERAL RETIREMENT SAVINGS ACCOUNTS CAN BUILD WEALTH, FIGHT POVERTY, AND GIVE AMERICAN SENIORS DIGNITY 40 Yale Law and Policy Review 642 (Spring, 2022) Fifty-eight years ago, President Lyndon Johnson declared an unconditional war on poverty in America because too many Americans lived on the outskirts of hope--some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many because of both. He diagnosed poverty as our nation's failure to give our fellow citizens a fair chance... 2022 Yes
Katie Whitley INCREASING ACCESS TO HIGH-QUALITY SCHOOLS IN INDIANAPOLIS THROUGH THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT QUALIFIED ALLOCATION PLAN 55 Indiana Law Review 879 (2022) Countless children in the greater Indianapolis metropolitan area lack access to high-quality public schools due to the median income and racial makeup of their neighborhood. School and residential racial segregation in our country, coupled with inequitable distribution of resources across neighborhoods and schools, creates a system in which... 2022  
Nino C. Monea LOW INCOME, POOR OUTCOME: UNEQUAL TREATMENT OF INDIGENT DEFENDANTS 67 Wayne Law Review 345 (Winter, 2022) Abstract. 345 I. Introduction. 346 II. Criminalizing Poverty. 349 A. Outlawing Cheap Housing or No Housing. 349 B. Traffic Laws that Hinge on Wealth. 352 C. Cash Bail. 357 III. Debtor Prisons. 360 A. Mountainous Fines. 361 B. Collateral Expenses. 364 C. Public Defender Fees. 367 D. Private Debts, Public Enforcement. 370 E. Lack of Fee Waivers. 372... 2022 Yes
Michele Estrin Gilman ME, MYSELF, AND MY DIGITAL DOUBLE: EXTENDING SARA GREENE'S STEALING (IDENTITY) FROM THE POOR TO THE CHALLENGES OF IDENTITY VERIFICATION 106 Minnesota Law Review Headnotes 301 (Spring, 2022) In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.--Erik Erikson We are not hiding who we are. We are who we say we are.--Tricia George, unemployment insurance applicant locked out of the system Identity is foundational to human existence. Philosopher John Locke linked identity to... 2022 Yes
Sophia Hunt, Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA POLICING WELFARE: PUNITIVE ADVERSARIALISM IN PUBLIC ASSISTANCE. BY SPENCER HEADWORTH. CHICAGO: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 2021. 272 PP. $32.50 PAPERBACK 56 Law and Society Review 159 (March, 2022) President Reagan notably fought to reform the welfare system and to curb the abuse of government programs. He famously argued that he wanted his agents of oversight and investigation to be as relentless and unsparing as junkyard dogs' in the effort to identify and eradicate wasteful or ill-advised expenditures (p. 27). While much is known about... 2022 Yes
Samiksha Manjani POOR GABRIEL: HOW AMBIGUOUS STATE IMMUNITY POLICIES FOR CHILD PROTECTION AGENCY WORKERS FAIL CHILDREN OF COLOR 30 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 57 (2022) I. Introduction. 5.8 II. Background. 61 A. The Development of the Child Welfare System. 61 1. The Advent of an Overburdened Child Welfare State. 61 2. The Overrepresentation of Children of Color in the Child Welfare System. 62 B. The Evolution of Children's Rights in America. 63 1. DeShaney: Do Children Have Due Process Rights?. 63 2. An Overview:... 2022 Yes
Sarah Brown PROMULGATING POVERTY: HOW AI TECHNOLOGY EXACERBATES POVERTY ISSUES IN PUBLIC PROGRAMS 49 Northern Kentucky Law Review 267 (2022) Since 1935, the United States has funded public welfare programs for its needy citizens. These vital government programs provide assistance with food, housing, health care, and other basic living expenses through programs such as Supplemental Security Income (SSI), the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for... 2022 Yes
Brittany L. Deitch REHABILITATION OR REVOLVING DOOR: HOW PAROLE IS A TRAP FOR THOSE IN POVERTY 111 Georgetown Law Journal Online 46 (2022) On any given day, one in four incarcerated persons in the United States is locked up for a technical violation of their community supervision. The United States has thus created a mass incarceration problem and mass supervision problem that fuel each other through the parole system. When an individual is fortunate enough to be released from prison... 2022  
Celia Feldman RENTING WHILE POOR: HOW RENT ESCROW VIOLATES TENANTS' DUE PROCESS RIGHTS 51 University of Baltimore Law Review 247 (Spring, 2022) I. INTRODUCTION. 248 II. SOCIETAL JUDGMENTS REGARDING POVERTY. 250 A. Exclusion of Low-Income Americans from Aid Programs Based on Moral Judgments. 251 B. Exclusion of Low-Income Minorities from Communities and Housing Through Moralistic and Exclusionary Zoning. 252 III. REFORMS IN LANDLORD-TENANT LAW. 256 A. The Warranty of Habitability. 256 B.... 2022 Yes
Claire S. Raj RIGHTS TO NOWHERE: THE IDEA'S INADEQUACY IN HIGH-POVERTY SCHOOLS 53 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 409 (Spring, 2022) The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) successfully opened the schoolhouse doors to millions of students with disabilities. But more than forty years after its enactment, the law has proven largely inept at confronting the educational inequities faced by the many students with disabilities attending underfunded, high-poverty... 2022 Yes
Stacy Metcalf , Kelli L. Dickerson , Jennifer Lavoie , Jodi A. Quas THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND LAY PERCEPTIONS OF POVERTY AND NEGLECT 46 Law and Human Behavior 245 (August, 2022) Objectives: In cases of child neglect, intervention depends on accurate identification and reporting. Prior work has shown that individuals, especially those of high socioeconomic status (SES), conflate poverty and neglect when making identification and reporting decisions. The COVID-19 pandemic led to changes in people's experiences with poverty,... 2022 Yes
Michael Bindas THE ONCE AND FUTURE PROMISE OF RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS FOR POOR AND MINORITY STUDENTS 132 Yale Law Journal Forum 529 (17-Nov-22) abstract. In Carson v. Makin, the Supreme Court provided the bookend to its 2002 decision in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris. Whereas Zelman held that the Establishment Clause permits the inclusion of religious options in educational-choice programs, Carson held that the Free Exercise prohibits their exclusion. Immediately, the public-school establishment... 2022 Yes
Dr. Katharine M. Broton, Charlotte Lenkaitis, Sarah Henry UNIVERSITIES AS PRODUCERS, MANAGERS, AND OPPONENTS OF POVERTY: THE CASE OF FOOD INSECURITY ON CAMPUS 29 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 337 (Spring, 2022) Given growing awareness of and actions to address food insecurity challenges in higher education, this paper is a response to the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 2022 Symposium call to examine universities as producers, managers, and opponents of poverty. Bringing together the unique perspectives of a faculty scholar and two recent... 2022 Yes
  WELFARIST PROSECUTION 135 Harvard Law Review 2151 (June, 2022) Criminal justice reform advocates have long rallied against the criminalization of poverty in the United States. It's well established that criminal justice involvement disproportionately affects communities of color and low-income individuals. This is unsurprising given the historic tightening of the welfare state, coupled with the unprecedented... 2022  
Richard Spradlin ZONING, NATURAL RESOURCES, AND RECLAMATION: OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN A FLOWERING INDUSTRY 23 Vermont Journal of Environmental Law 374 (Summer, 2022) Introduction. 375 I. Racialized Criminalization and Attempted Restoration. 377 A. Criminalization. 377 B. Legalization. 379 1. Canna-colonialism. 379 II. Relationship Between the Environment and Cannabis Cultivation/Production. 383 III. EJ and Cannabis: Considerations and Opportunities. 389 A. Zoning, Licensing, and Community Rebuilding. 390 B.... 2022 Yes
Tricia Young A CHANGE MUST COME: THE INTERSECTION OF INTERGENERATIONAL POVERTY AND PUBLIC BENEFITS 14 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 1 (Winter, 2021) Despite being one of the wealthiest countries in the world, the United States continues on in its trend of passing on a low quality of life from one generation of the poor to the next--thereby exacerbating and perpetuating poverty into the foreseeable future. Intergenerational poverty, as this concept is aptly named, disproportionately impacts... 2021 Yes
Jeremy A. Rovinsky A STUNNING DECISION: HOW THE E.C.J. BUTCHERED BOTH RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND ANIMAL WELFARE 29 Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law 273 (Spring, 2021) I. Background. 273 II. The Essence of the Advocate General's Advisory Opinion. 275 III. The European Court of Justice's Stunning Decision. 277 A. How the Decision Fails to Protect Religious Freedom. 278 B. How the Decision Fails to Protect Animal Welfare. 279 IV. A Meatier Approach. 283 V. Conclusion. 284 2021 Yes
Megan Paschke APPLYING U.S. ANIMAL LAW EXTRATERRITORIALLY TO IMPROVE ANIMAL WELFARE STANDARDS ABROAD AND AVOID A RACE TO THE BOTTOM 49 Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 13 (2021) Gaps in animal law, both state and federal, have led to decreasing animal welfare in a globalized society. Animal welfare is increasingly threatened by international trade and differing standards of countries who import and export animals for all sorts of reasons, particularly consumption. This mismatch of differing and decreasing standards and... 2021 Yes
George Rice COVID-19 & FOOD INSECURITY: HOW THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS EXACERBATED FOOD INSECURITY AND WILL DISPROPORTIONALLY AFFECT LOW INCOME AND MINORITY GROUPS 21 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 160 (Spring, 2021) The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted several health disparities that exist between primarily White, affluent populations and low-income and minority communities. While diet-related health disparities have come to the forefront during the pandemic, they have existed for generations, and can be attributed, in part, to systemic inequality in food... 2021 Yes
William C.C. Kemp-Neal J.D. ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: USING ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING TO LIFT PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTY, AND RE-SHAPE THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE & POLLUTION IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR 32 Fordham Environmental Law Review 295 (Symposium-Spring, 2021) Long before the phrase I can't breathe became a rallying cry for Black Lives Matter activists protesting the deaths of Black people at the hands of police, environmental-justice activists warned that pollution was choking and killing people of color in the U.S. In the mid-1900s the United States began to see a rise in concern for environmental... 2021 Yes
Victoria J. Haneman FUNERAL POVERTY 55 University of Richmond Law Review 387 (Winter, 2021) Death is an expensive proposition. The economics of life do not end with death, and putting the deceased to rest carries (often unexpected) funerary expenses for cremations, funerals, burials, and/or memorials. In 2019, the median cost of an adult funeral with viewing and burial exceeded $9000. This number is particularly stark given that four out... 2021 Yes
Kathryn Evans MAKING WORKFARE MORE FAIR: PROTECTING WORKERS IN WELFARE PROGRAMS FROM SEXUAL HARASSMENT 36 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 150 (2021) Every year, hundreds of thousands of adults in the United States work full-time jobs through programs known as workfare as a requirement to collecting public benefits. Although these individuals work full time, their legal status as employees is not as clear as it should be. That fact, along with other factors such as their status as temporary... 2021 Yes
Emily E. Harrison ODOR IN THE COURT! AND IT SMELLS LIKE ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: HOW BIG PORK IS LEGALLY ABUSING POOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA 11 Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy 433 (2021) Over 500 plaintiffs across eastern North Carolina have filed twenty-six separate lawsuits against Murphy-Brown, LLC (Murphy-Brown), a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, which is a Chinese-owned company. Smithfield Foods is the largest pork and hog producer in the world, generating 8.6 billion pounds of pork and 18.9 million hogs in 2016 alone. The... 2021 Yes
Tracy A. Kaye OGDEN COMMONS CASE STUDY: A COMPARATIVE LOOK AT THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT AND OPPORTUNITY ZONE TAX INCENTIVE PROGRAMS 48 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1067 (October, 2021) Introduction. 1068 I. The Ogden Commons Project. 1072 A. North Lawndale Neighborhood, Chicago. 1072 B. OZ Census Tract 8433. 1075 II. Financing of the Ogden Commons Project. 1080 A. Qualified Opportunity Funds. 1080 B. Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program. 1084 III. Comparison of the LIHTC Program with the Opportunity Zone Tax Incentive. 1090 A.... 2021  
Gwendoline M. Alphonso POLITICAL-ECONOMIC ROOTS OF COERCION--SLAVERY, NEOLIBERALISM, AND THE RACIAL FAMILY POLICY LOGIC OF CHILD AND SOCIAL WELFARE 11 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 471 (July, 2021) The Article argues that at the core of the American neoliberal policy regime, of which child welfare is a critical part, lies an enduring raced family policy logic of two racially stratified standards: a punitive Black economic utility family standard and a supportive white domestic affection family standard, whose policy roots and practices trace... 2021 Yes
Catherine R. Albiston, Catherine L. Fisk PRECARIOUS WORK AND PRECARIOUS WELFARE: HOW THE PANDEMIC REVEALS FUNDAMENTAL FLAWS OF THE U.S. SOCIAL SAFETY NET 42 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 257 (2021) Almost all forms of social insurance in the United States are tied to employment. The employment link to social insurance has proven to be a catastrophe during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic downturn, in which almost twenty percent of the American workforce lost their jobs. The linking of social insurance to employment is an... 2021 Yes
Sam Gilman PROLIFERATING PREDATION: REVERSE REDLINING, THE DIGITAL PROLIFERATION OF INFERIOR SOCIAL WELFARE PRODUCTS, AND HOW TO STOP IT 56 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 169 (Winter, 2021) Society is waking up to surveillance capitalism, the influence of digital advertising platforms on democracy, and discriminatory algorithms. However, academics have yet to emphasize the civil rights and consumer harm that results from ad targeting for inferior and harmful versions of essential consumer goods and services. This Article aims to fill... 2021 Yes
Katie Raitz PUBLIC HEALTH AND RACIAL INEQUALITY: WHY THE OPPORTUNITY ZONE PROGRAM FAILS LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES AND COSTS LIVES 12 UC Irvine Law Review 315 (November, 2021) The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built. Poor health outcomes are linked to long-standing wealth disparities for people of color in the United States. Wealth inequality has gotten worse over the past decades, despite attempts to improve it. The... 2021  
Lynn D. Lu RESTORATIVE RELATIONSHIPS AND "RADICAL HELP": REIMAGINING WELFARE-TO-WORK BEYOND THE MARKET-FAMILY DIVIDE 50 University of Baltimore Law Review 287 (Spring, 2021) INTRODUCTION. 288 I. WORKFARE AS PUNISHMENT AND THE MARKET-FAMILY DIVIDE. 293 II. RESTORING THE SAFETY NET FOR SANCTIONS: RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO PUNITIVE WORKFARE. 303 A. Choosing Relationships Over Retribution. 303 B. The Long Shadow of Sanctions. 310 III. REVIVING RELATIONAL WORK: RADICAL HELP AS VOLUNTARY AFFIRMATIVE SUPPORT.... 2021 Yes
Michelle Zaludek SURVIVING CLIMATE CHANGE: AN EXAMINATION OF GOVERNMENT DISASTER RESPONSE AND ITS EFFECT ON PEOPLE IMPACTED BY POVERTY 31 Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology 226 (2021) L1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 226 Part I. Climate Change and Poverty. 229 a. Heat. 233 b. Flooding and Storms. 236 c. Communicable Diseases. 239 d. Questioning Response to Hazards Worsened by Climate Change. 241 Part II. Government Response. 242 a. Communication. 242 b. Response Strategies. 251 Conclusion. 257 2021 Yes
Mekonnen Firew Ayano TENANTS WITHOUT RIGHTS: SITUATING THE EXPERIENCES OF NEW IMMIGRANTS IN THE U.S. LOW-INCOME HOUSING MARKET 28 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 159 (Winter, 2021) Immigrants who recently arrived in the United States generally are not able to exclusively possess rental properties in the formal market because they lack a steady source of income and credit history. Instead, they rent shared bedrooms, basements, attics, garages, and illegally converted units that violate housing codes and regulations. Their... 2021  
Andrew Hammond TERRITORIAL EXCEPTIONALISM AND THE AMERICAN WELFARE STATE 119 Michigan Law Review 1639 (June, 2021) Federal law excludes millions of American citizens from crucial public benefits simply because they live in the United States territories. If the Social Security Administration determines a low-income individual has a disability, that person can move to another state and continue to receive benefits. But if that person moves to, say, Guam or the... 2021 Yes
Omarr Rambert THE ABSENT BLACK FATHER: RACE, THE WELFARE-CHILD SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND THE CYCLICAL NATURE OF FATHERLESSNESS 68 UCLA Law Review 324 (May, 2021) The perception of Black fathers is that they are largely absent from their children's lives, and that such absence--and the ensuing experience of growing up fatherless--is a direct cause of social issues in Black communities. Through media representations and policymaking, the absent Black father narrative has taken shape over the past fifty years,... 2021 Yes
William Boyd THE POVERTY OF THEORY: PUBLIC PROBLEMS, INSTRUMENT CHOICE, AND THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY 46 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 399 (June 2, 2021) The instrument choice debate has been a fixture of environmental law for much of the last three decades. While this debate has led to a much sharper focus on the relative merits of different regulatory tools in confronting environmental problems, it has also left the field unprepared to conceive and implement an adequate response to complex,... 2021 Yes
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