Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms in Title or Summary |
Jonathan P. Feingold |
"ALL (POOR) LIVES MATTER": HOW CLASS-NOT-RACE LOGIC REINSCRIBES RACE AND CLASS PRIVILEGE |
10/30/2020 University of Chicago Law Review Online 47 (October 30, 2020) |
In An Intersectional Critique of Tiers of Scrutiny, Professors Devon Carbado and Kimberlé Crenshaw infuse affirmative action with an overdue dose of intersectionality theory. Their intervention, which highlights the disfavored remedial status of Black women, exposes equality law as an unmarked intersectional project that privileges the... |
2020 |
Yes |
Staff |
A RECKONING FOR "RATIONAL" DISCRIMINATION: RETHINKING FEDERAL WELFARE BENEFITS IN UNITED STATES-OCCUPIED ISLANDS |
43 University of Hawaii Law Review 265 (Winter 2020) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 265 II. TERRITORIAL ACQUISITION AND ADMINISTRATION. 267 A. Historical Context of Territorial Acquisition. 267 B. Legal Framework for Administration of Insular Possessions. 271 C. Federal Benefits in Territories and Associated States. 273 III. HISTORICAL CHALLENGES TO FEDERAL BENEFIT SCHEMES. 276 A. Califano v. Gautier Torres. 276... |
2020 |
Yes |
David A. Super |
ACUTE POVERTY: THE FATAL FLAW IN U.S. ANTI-POVERTY LAW |
10 UC Irvine Law Review 1273 (June, 2020) |
Debates over inequality have largely ignored the largest body of people living in poverty. Although anti-poverty policymaking focuses overwhelmingly on the chronic poor, a far larger number of people suffer occasional acute bouts of poverty. The causes of the acute poor's problems, and their needs, differ significantly from those of the chronic... |
2020 |
Yes |
Leon B. Greenfield, Perry A. Lange, Nicole Callan |
ANTITRUST POPULISM AND THE CONSUMER WELFARE STANDARD: WHAT ARE WE ACTUALLY DEBATING? |
83 Antitrust Law Journal 393 (2020) |
For the last several years, debate over the proper role of antitrust has not been limited to academics, economists, lawyers, and judges, but routinely includes politicians, journalists, and increasingly the general public. Critics of modern antitrust enforcement are raising concerns about increasing concentrations of economic power, especially in... |
2020 |
Yes |
Catherine P. Sakimura |
BEYOND THE MYTH OF AFFLUENCE: THE INTERSECTION OF LGBTQ FAMILY LAW AND POVERTY |
33 Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers 137 (2020) |
In the past few decades, the dominant media narratives about LGBTQ people have focused on white middle-class couples and families. Likewise, statutes protecting LGBTQ parents and their children have often focused on the needs of more affluent parents, and the child welfare system disproportionately removes children from LGBTQ parents of color. In... |
2020 |
Yes |
M. Akram Faizer |
BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: A PROPOSAL TO BRING TESTAMENTARY FREEDOM TO LOW-INCOME AND RACIAL MINORITY COMMUNITIES |
99 Texas Law Review Online 20 (2020) |
The Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto has written extensively on difficulties faced by the poor in developing countries. One of these difficulties is that poor people in developing countries suffer from ill-defined property rights that undermine their ability to both protect their homes and invest in their communities. De Soto's argument is... |
2020 |
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Blaine G. Saito |
COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE AND THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT |
39 Virginia Tax Review 451 (Spring, 2020) |
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is the largest federal program focused on increasing the supply of affordable housing. The credit is designed as a collaboration among the federal government, states, localities, developers, and investors. But it is not meeting its goals. Budget hawks have noted that costs have increased while units have... |
2020 |
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Kelli L. Dickerson, Jennifer Lavoie, Jodi A. Quas, University of California, Irvine, The University of Edinburgh, University of California, Irvine |
DO LAYPERSONS CONFLATE POVERTY AND NEGLECT? |
44 Law and Human Behavior 311 (August, 2020) |
Objective: Child neglect is often initially identified via adults who come into contact with children and report their suspicions to the authorities. Little is known about what behaviors laypersons view as constituting neglect and hence worth reporting. We examined laypersons' perceptions of neglect and poverty, particularly how these factors... |
2020 |
Yes |
Tamara Louis-Jacques , Correspondence: tamarakristine@gmail.com |
DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK: THE PROMOTION OF REHABILITATION AND REUNIFICATION OF FAMILIES AFFECTED BY POVERTY-RELATED NEGLECT |
58 Family Court Review 1087 (October, 2020) |
While Child Protective Services may provide some services to remedy the underlying issues of child neglect allegations, these efforts are often bare minimum and inadequately implemented in order to effectuate the goals of family reunification. This Note proposes an amendment to the Family Court Act in order to promote compliance of local child... |
2020 |
Yes |
Emily A. Benfer, Seema Mohapatra, Lindsay F. Wiley, Ruqaiijah Yearby |
HEALTH JUSTICE STRATEGIES TO COMBAT THE PANDEMIC: ELIMINATING DISCRIMINATION, POVERTY, AND HEALTH DISPARITIES DURING AND AFTER COVID-19 |
19 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics 122 (Fall, 2020) |
Experience with past epidemics made it predictable that people living in poverty, people of color, and other marginalized groups would bear the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic due to the social determinants of health (SDOH). The SDOH are subdivided into structural and intermediary determinants. Structural determinants include forms of... |
2020 |
Yes |
Jennifer Skeem, Nicholas Scurich, John Monahan, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Irvine, University of Virginia |
IMPACT OF RISK ASSESSMENT ON JUDGES' FAIRNESS IN SENTENCING RELATIVELY POOR DEFENDANTS |
44 Law and Human Behavior 51 (February, 2020) |
Objective: Use of risk assessment instruments in the criminal justice system is controversial. Advocates emphasize that risk assessments are more transparent, consistent, and accurate in predicting re-offending than judicial intuition. Skeptics worry that risk assessments will increase socioeconomic disparities in incarceration. Ultimately, judges... |
2020 |
Yes |
Andrew Hammond |
LITIGATING WELFARE RIGHTS: MEDICAID, SNAP, AND THE LEGACY OF THE NEW PROPERTY |
115 Northwestern University Law Review 361 (2020) |
In 2017, the Republican-controlled Congress was poised to make deep cuts to the nation's two largest anti-poverty programs: Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps. Yet, despite a unified, GOP-led federal government for the first time in over a decade, those efforts failed.... |
2020 |
Yes |
Tonya L. Brito |
PRODUCING JUSTICE IN POOR PEOPLE'S COURTS: FOUR MODELS OF STATE LEGAL ACTORS |
24 Lewis & Clark Law Review 145 (2020) |
This Article examines how judges and government attorneys produce justice in poor people's courts, which are characterized by a substantial volume of cases, socioeconomically disadvantaged litigants, and an absence or asymmetry of representation. The Article's findings are drawn from an extensive qualitative empirical study of one type of poor... |
2020 |
Yes |
Zoe Niesel |
PUTTING POVERTY LAW INTO CONTEXT: USING THE FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE TO EDUCATE NEW LAWYERS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE |
76 New York University Annual Survey of American Law 97 (2020) |
Introduction. 98 I. Poverty Law and the Law School Curriculum. 99 A. What is Poverty Law?. 99 B. Poverty Law Within the Law School Curriculum. 107 II. ABA Standards and the Role in Poverty Law. 113 III. The St. Mary's Experience. 115 A. Housing the Experience. 119 B. Poverty Law Exposure in the First Year. 122 Conclusion. 129 |
2020 |
Yes |
Connor Blancato |
QAP OUT: WHY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD REQUIRE MORE FROM HOW STATES ALLOCATE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDITS |
28 Journal of Law & Policy 639 (2020) |
Prohibitively high land acquisition and construction costs block affordable housing developers from using the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program in high opportunity areas. Policymakers must study the history of housing policy in the United States and realize that the LIHTC program works because it suitably balances previously problematic... |
2020 |
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Catherine Powell , Camille Gear Rich |
THE "WELFARE QUEEN" GOES TO THE POLLS: RACE-BASED FRACTURES IN GENDER POLITICS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR INTERSECTIONAL COALITIONS |
19th Georgetown Law Journal 105 (June, 2020) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 108 I. The Welfare Queen Goes to the Polls. 115 A. ORIGINS OF THE WELFARE QUEEN. 115 B. THE WELFARE QUEEN AT THE POLLS. 121 C. DISCURSIVE GOALS: THE WELFARE QUEEN AS A THREAT TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. 125 1. The Right to Vote as a Scarce Resource. 126 2. Individual Malfeasance Versus Institutional Wrongdoing. 127 3.... |
2020 |
Yes |
Katelyn P. Dembowski |
THE CASE FOR SOCIOECONOMIC AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: A JURISPRUDENTIAL EXAMINATION AT THE DISPARITY BETWEEN PRIVILEGE AND POVERTY IN HIGHER EDUCATION ADMISSIONS |
31 Hastings Women's Law Journal 129 (Winter, 2020) |
It is hard for us Westerners, not that the freedom that men seek differs according to their social or economic status, but that the majority who possess it have gained it by exploiting, or, at least, averting their gaze from, the vast majority who do not. - Isaiah Berlin Racial minorities in America have faced unequal representation and... |
2020 |
Yes |
Andrew Roesch-Knapp |
THE CYCLICAL NATURE OF POVERTY: EVICTING THE POOR |
45 Law and Social Inquiry 839 (August, 2020) |
Desmond, Matthew. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. New York: Crown Publishers, 2016. From the medical field to the housing market to the criminal justice system, poor people must navigate labyrinthian organizations that often perpetuate social and economic inequality. Arguably it is through these social institutions, and through... |
2020 |
Yes |
Melissa Broaddus |
THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF RACE, GENDER, POVERTY, AND INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE |
17 Indiana Health Law Review 207 (2020) |
Trigger Warning: The following story may trigger an adverse reaction for survivors of intimate partner violence, or IPV. Robert Kelly, better known by his stage name R. Kelly, and Andrea Kelly have been divorced for almost a decade. Unfortunately, Andrea is still tormented by the abuse she experienced from her now ex-husband. During an appearance... |
2020 |
Yes |
Kirk McClure, Ph.D., Anne R. Williamson, Ph.D., Hye-Sung Han, Ph.D., Brandon M. Weiss |
THE LIHTC PROGRAM, RACIALLY/ETHNICALLY CONCENTRATED AREAS OF POVERTY, AND HIGH-OPPORTUNITY NEIGHBORHOODS |
6 Texas A&M Journal of Property Law 89 (December, 2020) |
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program remains the nation's largest affordable housing production program. LIHTC units are under-represented in the neighborhoods that both promote movement to high-opportunity neighborhoods and affirmatively further fair housing. State and local officials should play an active role in guiding site... |
2020 |
Yes |
Spencer Headworth |
THE POWER OF SECOND-ORDER LEGAL CONSCIOUSNESS: AUTHORITIES' PERCEPTIONS OF "STREET POLICY" AND WELFARE FRAUD ENFORCEMENT |
54 Law and Society Review 320 (June, 2020) |
Legal authorities' second-order legal consciousness--their perceptions of others' understandings of law--shapes the social realization of legal power. Analysis of interviews with welfare fraud enforcement workers from five US states reveals their perceptions of how clients view law, policy, and enforcement practices, and shows these perceptions'... |
2020 |
Yes |
Lisa Foster |
THE PRICE OF JUSTICE: FINES, FEES AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES |
11 University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review 1 (Fall, 2020) |
I. Introduction. 2 II. The Scope of the Problem. 5 III. The Implications for Race and Poverty. 10 IV. The Consequences of Nonpayment. 15 V. The Constitutional Constraints on Fines and Fees. 23 VI. Reforming Fines and Fees Practices. 27 VII. Conclusion. 31 |
2020 |
Yes |
Nicolas Sawyer |
TOO POOR TO VOTE: FELONY DISENFRANCHISEMENT IN FLORIDA VIOLATES BEARDEN |
25 Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights 205 (Spring, 2020) |
I. Background. 207 A. The 1838 Florida Constitution and the Origins of Felony Disenfranchisement in Florida. 207 B. Changes to Florida's Felony Voting Rights, 1838--2018. 208 C. Amendment 4, 2018. 208 D. Florida Senate Bill 7066, Codified as Florida Statute § 98.0751, 2019. 209 E. Federal District Court Enjoins Senate Bill 7066 in Jones v.... |
2020 |
Yes |
Monica Bell, Stephanie Garlock, Alexander Nabavi-Noori |
TOWARD A DEMOSPRUDENCE OF POVERTY |
69 Duke Law Journal 1473 (April, 2020) |
This Article describes the rift between a due-process-focused jurisprudence on legal-financial obligations--the centerpiece of the current fight against criminalization of poverty--and the substantive and structural problems of poverty criminalization. It argues that judges can help address this disconnect while still operating within the scope of... |
2020 |
Yes |
Ilja Richard Pavone |
TOWARDS AN EU ANIMAL WELFARE LAW: THE CASE OF ANIMAL TESTING AND THE LIMITS OF NEW WELFARISM |
16 Animal & Natural Resource Law Review 193 (May, 2020) |
Nowadays, the mass slaughter of animals is on the rise for several reasons. Animals are mainly exploited for food, (following the logic that they must feed all 7.5 billion of humans), kept in poor conditions in factory farming, and slaughtered for futile reasons, such as luxury foods (the cruel practices of shark finning and foie gras), recreation... |
2020 |
Yes |
Vonica F. Sallan |
TRANSIT'S RELATIONSHIP TO CONCENTRATED POVERTY: A CRITICAL STUDY OF RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION IN SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN |
20 Journal of Law in Society 214 (Winter, 2020) |
Introduction. 214 Background: A Brief History of Concentrated Poverty in Detroit. 216 I. Transportation Drives Upward Mobility and Dispels Concentrated Poverty. 219 A. Distinguishing Concentrated Poverty from Individual Poverty. 219 i. The Socio-Political Landscape - Rhetoric and Studies That Distinguish Between Poverty and Concentrated Poverty.... |
2020 |
Yes |
Alice Setrini |
TREATING POVERTY: LEGAL TOOLS FOR HEALTH-HARMING NEEDS |
69 DePaul Law Review 777 (Spring, 2020) |
C1-2Contents L1-2INTRODUCTION Introduction. 777 I. Background on DEvelopment of the MLP Model. 779 A. Legal Aid Chicago's MLPs. 784 B. Health Justice Project. 785 C. Health Forward/Salud Adelante. 787 CONCLUSION. 792 |
2020 |
Yes |
Valencia Richardson |
VOTING WHILE POOR: REVIVING THE 24TH AMENDMENT AND ELIMINATING THE MODERN-DAY POLL TAX |
27 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 451 (Spring, 2020) |
The cost of voting is too high for millions of eligible voters. The Twenty-Fourth Amendment was ratified to address barriers which specifically prevent the poor from voting, after Post-Reconstruction politicians erected poll taxes as an end-run around universal enfranchisement. Today, costs associated with complying with burdensome voting... |
2020 |
Yes |
Gregory S. Parks , Derek S. Hicks |
"HOW MUCH A DOLLAR COST?" POLITICAL IDEOLOGY, RELIGION, AND POVERTY POLICY THROUGH THE LENS OF KENDRICK LAMAR'S MUSIC |
28 Southern California Review of Law & Social Justice 197 (Spring, 2019) |
The election of Donald Trump to President of the United States casts in stark relief the ideals of a portion of his base--white evangelical voters--and his policies as they impact the working class and the poor. The Christian ethos has long been typified by concern for the least of these, at least in theory. Paradoxically, white evangelical... |
2019 |
Yes |
Kathryn A. Sabbeth |
(UNDER)ENFORCEMENT OF POOR TENANTS' RIGHTS |
27 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 97 (Fall, 2019) |
Millions of tenants in the United States reside in substandard housing conditions ranging from toxic mold to the absence of heat, running water, or electricity. These conditions constitute blatant violations of law. The failure to maintain housing in habitable condition can violate the warranty of habitability, common law torts, and, in some cases,... |
2019 |
Yes |
Samuel Erlanger |
A CASHLESS ECONOMY: HOW TO PROTECT THE LOW-INCOME |
2019 Cardozo Law Review de novo 166 (2019) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 167 I. Cash and the Digital World. 169 A. Legal Tender and Its Decline. 169 1. What is Legal Tender?. 169 2. What Backs Legal Tender?. 171 3. Cashless Business Growth. 173 B. Obstacles for the Public in the Cashless Economy. 175 1. Unbanked and Underbanked. 175 2. Know Your Customer. 176 C. Responses to... |
2019 |
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Christian Ketter |
A SECOND AMENDMENT IN JEOPARDY OF ARTICLE V REPEAL, AND "AMFIT," A LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL ENSURING THE 2ND AMENDMENT INTO THE 22ND CENTURY: AFFORDABLE MANDATORY FIREARMS INSURANCE AND TAX (AMFIT), A SOLUTION TO MAINTAINING THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS AND PROMOTI |
64 Wayne Law Review 431 (Winter, 2019) |
I. Assessing the Problems: Mass Shootings, Accidental Child Deaths, and the Black Market For Firearms. 434 A. Assessing Second Amendment Risks. 437 1. Article V: Repeal of the Second Amendment. 437 2. Weapons' Bans. 440 3. The Status Quo. 441 B. The Solution: AMFIT. 442 1. How Will AMFIT Function?. 447 2. AMFIT and Mental Health. 456 3. AMFIT and... |
2019 |
Yes |
Sara S. Greene |
A THEORY OF POVERTY: LEGAL IMMOBILITY |
96 Washington University Law Review 753 (2019) |
The puzzle of why the cycle of poverty persists and upward socioeconomic mobility is so difficult has long captivated scholars and the public alike. Yet with all of the attention that has been paid to poverty, the crucial role of the law, particularly state and local law, in perpetuating poverty is largely ignored. This Article offers a new theory... |
2019 |
Yes |
Megan O'Connor |
ALL IN THE COMMUNITY: USING COMMUNITY SOLAR GARDENS TO BRING THE BENEFITS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY TO LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES |
31 Georgetown Environmental Law Review 391 (Winter, 2019) |
The goal of this Note is to analyze a possible solution to make distributed generation (DG) solar energy more affordable and available to low-income customers. The growth of renewable energy, in the form of DG solar, in the United States can be attributed to the benefits that DG solar has on mitigating the effects of climate change and helping to... |
2019 |
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Henry Rose |
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS WON IN THE SUPREME COURT BUT THE FAIR HOUSING ACT'S GOAL OF PROMOTING RACIAL INTEGRATION SAVED THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING |
35 Touro Law Review 791 (2019) |
In the early 1970s, a developer sought a zoning change to a parcel of land in Arlington Heights, Illinois that would allow for the construction of low-income housing. Arlington Heights denied the zoning change and the developer sued Arlington Heights arguing that this denial violated both equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of the... |
2019 |
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Anthony V. Alfieri |
BLACK, POOR, AND GONE: CIVIL RIGHTS LAW'S INNER-CITY CRISIS |
54 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 629 (Summer, 2019) |
In recent years, academics committed to a new law and sociology of poverty and inequality have sounded a call to revisit the inner city as a site of cultural and socio-legal research. Both advocates in anti-poverty and civil rights organizations, and scholars in law school clinical and university social policy programs, have echoed this call.... |
2019 |
Yes |
Chris Chambers Goodman |
CLASS IN THE CLASSROOM: POVERTY, POLICIES, AND PRACTICES IMPEDING EDUCATION |
27 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 357 (2019) |
Introduction. 357 I. Social Science. 363 II. The Constitutional Right to Public Education. 371 A. Adequate and Equal Education in Theory. 371 B. Education as Citizenship. 376 III. The Current Landscape. 379 A. The ESSA Thus Far. 379 B. Assessing Select State ESSA Plans. 383 C. Recent Education Litigation in Select States. 384 1. New Mexico. 385 2.... |
2019 |
Yes |
Chris Chambers Goodman |
CLASS IN THE CLASSROOM: POVERTY, POLICIES, AND PRACTICES IMPEDING EDUCATION |
27 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 95 (2019) |
Introduction 95 I. Social Science. 101 II. The Constitutional Right to Public Education. 109 A. Adequate and Equal Education in Theory. 109 B. Education as Citizenship. 114 III. The Current Landscape. 117 A. The ESSA Thus Far. 117 B. Assessing Select State ESSA Plans. 121 C. Recent Education Litigation in Select States. 122 1. New Mexico. 123 2.... |
2019 |
Yes |
Susannah Camic Tahk |
CONVERGING WELFARE STATES: SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE |
25 Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice 465 (Spring, 2019) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 465 II. Public Opinion. 467 III. Legal Frameworks. 477 IV. Administration. 482 V. Normative Concerns. 489 |
2019 |
Yes |
Dorothy E. Roberts |
DIGITIZING THE CARCERAL STATE: AUTOMATING INEQUALITY: HOW HIGH-TECH TOOLS PROFILE, POLICE, AND PUNISH THE POOR. BY VIRGINIA EUBANKS. NEW YORK, N.Y.: ST. MARTIN'S PRESS. 2018. PP. 260. $26.99 |
132 Harvard Law Review 1695 (April, 2019) |
Many life-changing interactions between individuals and state agents in the United States today are determined by a computer-generated score. Government agencies at the local, state, and federal levels increasingly make automated decisions based on vast collections of digitized information about individuals and mathematical algorithms that both... |
2019 |
Yes |
Ken Strutin |
FROM POVERTY TO PERSONHOOD: GIDEON UNCHAINED |
45 Mitchell Hamline Law Review 266 (2019) |
I. Introduction. 267 II. Poverties of Confinement. 272 A. Poverty's Reach into Prison. 273 B. Constitutional and Legislative Concerns For Indigent Prisoners. 277 C. Poor Access to Technology Limits Pro Se Lawyering. 282 III. Mass Incarceration. 285 IV. How to Build a Lawyer?. 292 V. Shaping the Law Without Counsel. 295 A. Ross. v. Moffitt. 296 B.... |
2019 |
Yes |
Jenna Steiner |
INFRASTRUCTURE AND POVERTY: REMOVING URBAN FREEWAYS TO RECTIFY A PLANNING DISASTER |
27 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 527 (2019) |
I. Introduction. 527 II. Infrastructure and Poverty. 528 III. Rochester's Struggle with Poverty and Infrastructure. 531 A. Poverty in Rochester. 531 B. History of Rochester's Inner Loop. 533 C. The Inner Loop East Project: Rectifying a Decades-Old Problem. 535 1. Restoring Connections and Increasing Mobility. 536 2. Economic Competitiveness. 538 3.... |
2019 |
Yes |
Lisa V. Martin |
NO RIGHT TO COUNSEL, NO ACCESS WITHOUT: THE POOR CHILD'S UNCONSTITUTIONAL CATCH-22 |
71 Florida Law Review 831 (May, 2019) |
In the midst of the push for universal access to counsel in civil cases and the increasing proportion of litigants who represent themselves, a critical barrier to access to justice for children has been overlooked. Federal courts have created a catch-22 for child litigants. Children cannot bring claims themselves, so parents must bring the claims... |
2019 |
Yes |
Andrew Hammond |
PLEADING POVERTY IN FEDERAL COURT |
128 Yale Law Journal 1478 (April, 2019) |
What must a poor person plead to gain access to the federal courts? How do courts decide when a poor litigant is poor enough? This Article answers those questions with the first comprehensive study of how district courts determine when a litigant may proceed in forma pauperis in a civil lawsuit. It shows that district courts lack standards to... |
2019 |
Yes |
Wendy A. Bach |
PROSECUTING POVERTY, CRIMINALIZING CARE |
60 William and Mary Law Review 809 (February, 2019) |
In 2013, state legislators sitting at the heart of America's opiate epidemic created the crime of fetal assault. Although they offered a fairly standard series of criminologic rationales to justify the legislation, they also posited that the creation of this crime was a precondition to secure treatment (or care) resources for women addicted to... |
2019 |
Yes |
David Pimentel |
PUNISHING FAMILIES FOR BEING POOR: HOW CHILD PROTECTION INTERVENTIONS THREATEN THE RIGHT TO PARENT WHILE IMPOVERISHED |
71 Oklahoma Law Review 885 (Spring, 2019) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 886 I. Child Protection Is an Important State Interest. 890 II. Parens Patriae v. the Compelling Interest in Family Autonomy and Integrity. 891 III. Erring on the Side of Safety (i.e., Intervention). 892 IV. Legal Standards. 895 A. Vague Standards. 895 B. Legal Standards That Conflate Poverty and Neglect. 895... |
2019 |
Yes |
Rachael T. Aminu |
REDEFINING BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD: THE CRUSHING IMPACT OF CHILD SUPPORT DEBTS ON LOW-INCOME FAMILIES IN THE MINORITY COMMUNITIES |
43 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 561 (Spring, 2019) |
This article reviews the impact and negative effect of the child support law and guidelines in accordance with the Texas Family Code on the low-income families, especially African American men, and the direct link between low college completion rate and the high incarceration of African Americans for child support debts. As of April 2017, 5.5... |
2019 |
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Jon Huske Davies |
SCHOOL CHOICES IN THE SUNFLOWER STATE: THE KANSAS TAX CREDIT SCHOLARSHIP FOR LOW-INCOME STUDENTS PROGRAM |
28-SPG Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 197 (Spring, 2019) |
In many of the nation's--and Kansas'--metropolitan areas, schools are unequal in terms of resources and student outcomes. Throughout the country's metropolitan areas, including those in Kansas City, Topeka, and Wichita, suburban school districts tend to be better resourced and student success rates excel compared to urban school districts. These... |
2019 |
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Neveen Hammad |
SHACKLED TO ECONOMIC APPEAL: HOW PRISON LABOR FACILITATES MODERN SLAVERY WHILE PERPETUATING POVERTY IN BLACK COMMUNITIES |
26 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 65 (Summer, 2019) |
Introduction. 66 I. The Black Codes. 67 II. Convict Leasing. 68 III. Chain Gangs. 70 IV. Mass Incarceration. 71 V. Modern Prison Labor. 76 VI. The Prison-Industrial Complex. 78 VII. Arguments Surrounding Prison Labor. 81 A. Building Work Skills but Nowhere to Work: California's Inmate-Firefighters. 82 B. Poor Workplace Conditions: The Poultry... |
2019 |
Yes |
W. Edward Afield |
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE LOW-INCOME TAXPAYER |
64 Villanova Law Review 347 (2019) |
TAX justice is social justice. To those regularly working to resolve tax controversies for low-income taxpayers and who are often dealing with the financial implications of life and death issues like human trafficking, the ability to afford medical care, and the risks of financial despair leading to suicide, this is an uncontroversial statement. To... |
2019 |
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