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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
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 Yes
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 Yes
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  
Camille Gear Rich RECLAIMING THE WELFARE QUEEN: FEMINIST AND CRITICAL RACE THEORY ALTERNATIVES TO EXISTING ANTI-POVERTY DISCOURSE 25 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 257 (Spring 2016) I. INTRODUCTION. 258 II. REFRAMING AND RECLAIMING THE WELFARE QUEEN. 264 A. Historical Relic or Current Reality? Understanding the Role of the Welfare Queen. 264 B. Charting A Way Forward: Reclaiming the Welfare Queen. 270 III. UNDERSTANDING THE WELFARE QUEEN: CONFERENCE PANELS AND DISCUSSIONS. 276 A. The Disciplinary Power of the Welfare Queen.... 2016 Yes
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 Yes
Stephen B. Bright RIGGED: WHEN RACE AND POVERTY DETERMINE OUTCOMES IN THE CRIMINAL COURTS 14 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 263 (Fall, 2016) A Pennsylvania newspaper recently reported that many people sentenced to death in that state since 2005 were represented by lawyers who were drug and alcohol addicts, had histories of mishandling cases or were convicted felons. Eighteen percent of those sentenced to death had been represented by lawyers who had been disciplined for professional... 2016 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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  
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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 Yes
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