Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms in Title or Summary |
Cristina Gallo |
MARRYING POOR: WOMEN'S CITIZENSHIP, RACE, AND TANF POLICIES |
19 UCLA Women's Law Journal 61 (Spring 2012) |
I. Introduction. 62 II. The Legacy of the Family Wage. 67 A. Work and Citizenship in the Civil War Era. 67 B. The Emergence of the Family Wage. 68 C. Freedom, Citizenship, and the Family Wage in the Postbellum Era. 72 III. Women's Welfare: Mother's Pensions, Aid to Dependent Children, and the Advent of the Modern U.S. Welfare State. 78 A. The... |
2012 |
Yes |
Wendy A. Bach |
MOBILIZATION AND POVERTY LAW: SEARCHING FOR PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY AMID THE ASHES OF THE WAR ON POVERTY |
20 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 96 (Fall 2012) |
In 1964, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, the federal government launched Community Action, a program that was to be designed and implemented with the maximum feasible participation of the poor. Today in governance theory, we are told once again that participation by affected communities in the mechanisms of governance has the ability to... |
2012 |
Yes |
Emily M. Cordell |
MRS. GAY MEET MISS POOR: WHAT THE GAYS HAVE DONE FOR POOR PEOPLE |
47 University of San Francisco Law Review 133 (Summer 2012) |
THIS COMMENT WILL LOOK at the recent developments in constitutional jurisprudence emerging from the major gay rights decisions and consider how the developments may apply to poor people. First, this comment will examine how the attention given to the responsible procreation argument in the same-sex marriage debate has the potential to halt its... |
2012 |
Yes |
Khiara M. Bridges |
POOR WOMEN AND THE PROTECTIVE STATE |
63 Hastings Law Journal 1619 (August 1, 2012) |
This Article puts poor, pregnant women's current experience with the state into conversation with the science of prenatal and early childhood brain development and looks at the effect on women's autonomy of government regulation of individual behaviors that may harm fetal brain development. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork with poor, pregnant... |
2012 |
Yes |
Frank I. Michelman |
POVERTY IN LIBERALISM: A COMMENT ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL ESSENTIALS |
60 Drake Law Review 1001 (Summer 2012) |
I. Introduction: Antipoverty Liberalism?. 1001 II. A State Obligation to Counteract Poverty: Two Kinds of Reasons. 1006 A. Humanity-Based Reasons. 1006 B. Political Reasons. 1008 III. A Fly in the Ointment? The Reduction of Justice by Legitimacy. 1014 IV. Substance and Procedure. 1017 V. Transparency and Adjudication. 1019 VI. Philosophy,... |
2012 |
Yes |
Ezra Rosser |
POVERTY OFFSETTING |
6 Harvard Law & Policy Review 179 (Winter 2012) |
The market now offers consumers an expanding array of options to offset the harms of their consumption. Travel websites and politicians alike sell the advantages of carbon offsetting. But offsetting options need not be limited to correcting for environmental harm; consumption is also associated with worker exploitation and people struggling with... |
2012 |
Yes |
Priscilla A. Ocen |
THE NEW RACIALLY RESTRICTIVE COVENANT: RACE, WELFARE, AND THE POLICING OF BLACK WOMEN IN SUBSIDIZED HOUSING |
59 UCLA Law Review 1540 (August, 2012) |
This Article explores the race, gender, and class dynamics that render poor Black women vulnerable to racial surveillance and harassment in predominately white communities. In particular, this Article interrogates the recent phenomenon of police officers and public officials enforcing private citizens' discriminatory complaints, which ultimately... |
2012 |
Yes |
Kaitlyn Murphy |
THE PRICE OF PROGRESSIVE POLITICS: THE WELFARE RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN AN ERA OF COLOR BLIND RACISM BY ROSE ERNST. NEW YORK: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2010, 189 PP. $49.00 HARDBACK |
27 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 350 (Summer 2012) |
Even single-interest advocacy groups are not monolithic. Although everyone in the women's movement ostensibly cares about women's rights, the policy changes that benefit some women do not benefit all women equally. The priorities for a working mother who is African American may not be the same priorities as those of white college students with no... |
2012 |
Yes |
Matthew Shin |
THE RACE TO GET IN, AND THE STRUGGLE TO GET OUT: THE PROBLEM OF INTER-GENERATIONAL POVERTY IN FEDERAL HOUSING PROGRAMS |
40 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 337 (2012) |
Escap[ing] public housing projects is a colloquial phrase describing the plight of people struggling to escape publicly subsidized housing projects and assistance programs. This feat often entails overcoming obstacles of considerable magnitude. Even in a modestly performing economy, a given federally subsidized tenant will find innumerable... |
2012 |
Yes |
Dawinder S. Sidhu |
THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF URBAN POVERTY |
62 DePaul Law Review 1 (Fall 2012) |
The founding generation, stung and aggrieved by a history of repeated injuries and usurpations in England, laid down a charter of laws that placed a robust set of individual liberties beyond governmental intrusion or interference. Thomas Jefferson termed the United States an empire of liberty that would safeguard and perpetually restore... |
2012 |
Yes |
Julie Andersen Hill |
TRANSACTION ACCOUNT FEES: DO THE POOR REALLY PAY MORE THAN THE RICH? |
15 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law 65 (Fall 2012) |
During the Great Recession and its aftermath, customers became increasingly concerned about the fees banks charge for checking (transaction) accounts. Some believe that banks' fee structures are unfair. In particular, commentators often assert that high overdraft and other fees paid by poor consumers cross-subsidize free accounts for rich consumers... |
2012 |
Yes |
Karen M. Tani |
WELFARE AND RIGHTS BEFORE THE MOVEMENT: RIGHTS AS A LANGUAGE OF THE STATE |
122 Yale Law Journal 314 (November, 2012) |
In conversations about government assistance, rights language often emerges as a danger: when benefits become rights, policymakers lose flexibility, taxpayers suffer, and the poor lose their incentive to work. Absent from the discussion is an understanding of how, when, and why Americans began to talk about public benefits in rights terms. This... |
2012 |
Yes |
Matthieu Chemin , McGill University |
WELFARE EFFECTS OF CRIMINAL POLITICIANS: A DISCONTINUITY-BASED APPROACH |
55 Journal of Law & Economics 667 (August, 2012) |
This paper uses unique data on the criminal records of Indian bureaucrats to examine the relationship between politicians' criminality and consumption, crime, and corruption. The identification relies on a regression discontinuity design by which individuals living in districts where a criminal politician was barely elected are compared with... |
2012 |
Yes |
Julie A. Nice |
WHITHER THE CANARIES: ON THE EXCLUSION OF POOR PEOPLE FROM EQUAL CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION |
60 Drake Law Review 1023 (Summer 2012) |
I. Introduction. 1024 II. The Economic and Political Predicament of Poor People. 1025 III. The Exclusionary Effects of Constitutional Interpretation. 1029 A. The Instrumental Role of Constitutional Interpretation. 1030 B. Recent Examples of Constitutional Disregard. 1031 C. Deconstitutionalization and Dandridge v. Williams. 1033 D. Constitutional... |
2012 |
Yes |
Joseph Karl Grant |
A CONVERSATION WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA: A DIALOGUE ABOUT POVERTY, RACE, AND CLASS IN BLACK AMERICA |
1 University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review 25 (2011) |
Introduction. 26 I. Housing in Black America. 31 II. Education in Black America. 35 III. Employment in Black America. 38 IV. Access to Capital in Black America. 40 Conclusion. 45 |
2011 |
Yes |
Bruce A. Boyer , Amy E. Halbrook |
ADVOCATING FOR CHILDREN IN CARE IN A CLIMATE OF ECONOMIC RECESSION: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POVERTY AND CHILD MALTREATMENT |
6 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 300 (Spring, 2011) |
In a groundbreaking paper published nearly fifty years ago, Dr. Henry Kempe and his colleagues coined the term battered-child syndrome, defining for the first time child maltreatment in pathological terms. Dr. Kempe's work is often recognized as the catalyst for our modern child welfare system due to its role in generating heightened public... |
2011 |
Yes |
Brian Gilmore |
AGAIN AND AGAIN WE SUFFER: THE POOR AND THE ENDURANCE OF THE "WAR ON DRUGS" |
15 University of the District of Columbia Law Review 59 (Fall 2011) |
Our drug policy has become a tale of two cities, or more accurately a tale of two classes - one rich and one poor. - Congressmen Donald Payne Rather, the drug war is crafted to target poor peasants abroad and poor people at home; by use of force, not constructive measures to alleviate the problems that allegedly motivate it, at a fraction of... |
2011 |
Yes |
Krista Yacovone |
BROWNFIELDS AND THE POOR: IS CLEANUP A HAZARDOUS WASTE OF TIME? AN ANALYSIS OF THE UNITED STATES' EFFORTS AT REMEDIATION AND THEIR APPLICABILITY TO BRAZIL |
35 Fordham International Law Journal 201 (December, 2011) |
L1-2INTRODUCTION . R3202. I. BROWNFIELD REMEDIATION EFFORTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE EFFECTS ON THE POOR. 207 A. Brownfield Revitalization Framework in the United States. 207 B. Brownfield Revitalization and Poverty Amelioration. 215 1. Brownfield Sites and the Connection to Poverty. 215 2. Sustainable Development and Positive Effects on the... |
2011 |
Yes |
Jose R. Padilla |
CALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE: THE STRUGGLES AND CONTINUED SURVIVAL OF A POVERTY LAW PRACTICE |
30 Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review 163 (2011) |
In the small towns of America and the State of California . . . [the migrant and the Chicano migrant] had no one to resort to except the lawyer that was representing the Chamber of Commerce or the farmer or the farm corporation, the fellow that would hesitate to take a case because once having taken it, he would lose the business of the commercial... |
2011 |
Yes |
Sagit Mor |
DISABILITY AND THE PERSISTENCE OF POVERTY: RECONSTRUCTING DISABILITY ALLOWANCES |
6 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 178 (Winter, 2011) |
Disability policy has always been deeply immersed in questions relating to the relationships between disability and poverty. These efforts began as early as the Poor Laws of eighteenth century England. They were further enhanced by the rise of the modern welfare state, and culminated twenty years ago with the enactment of the Americans with... |
2011 |
Yes |
Mark C. Weber |
DISABILITY RIGHTS, WELFARE LAW |
32 Cardozo Law Review 2483 (July, 2011) |
This Article asks how disability rights ideas can be reconciled with--and might transform--the law of public assistance. The social model of disability forms the basis of most disability rights thinking. This model recognizes that impairments do not by themselves disable, but disability instead arises from a dynamic between a person's physical and... |
2011 |
Yes |
Daniel J. Gifford |
DOMINANCE, INNOVATION, AND EFFICIENCY: MODIFYING ANTITRUST AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DOCTRINES TO FURTHER WELFARE |
40 Hofstra Law Review 437 (Winter 2011) |
I. Introduction. 437 II. Patent Law and Price Discrimination. 439 A. The Patent System's Tradeoff Between Innovation and Market Power. 439 B. Section 271 of the Patent Act. 443 1. Independent Ink, Inc. and the Patent Misuse Doctrine. 443 3. A Tentative Economic Evaluation of Section 271. 448 a. The Economics of Section 271. 448 b. The Case of the... |
2011 |
Yes |
David Linhart |
EMINENT DOMAIN CONVERSION OF VACANT LUXURY CONDOMINIUMS INTO LOW-INCOME HOUSING |
21 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 129 (Fall 2011) |
I. Introduction. 129 II. Background. 133 A. Takings Clause in the Fifth Amendment as applied in Midkiff and Kelo. 133 B. Housing imbalance in New York City in the wake of overdriven gentrification. 138 III. Argument. 144 A. RTTC-NYC findings and proposal. 144 B. Privatized low-income housing is valid public purpose. 147 IV. Conclusion. 150 |
2011 |
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CT Turney |
GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, AND YOUR QUEER: THE NEED AND POTENTIAL FOR ADVOCACY FOR LGBTQ IMMIGRANT DETAINEES |
58 UCLA Law Review 1343 (June, 2011) |
As immigration detention has increased in the United States over the past two decades, legislative changes have placed LGBTQ immigrants at a higher risk of being detained because of deportation policies that focus on poverty-related crime and increasingly stringent asylum requirements. Once detained, these immigrants are subjected to significantly... |
2011 |
Yes |
Allison M. Blackman |
MANUFACTURED HOME DISPLACEMENT AND ITS DISPARATE IMPACT ON LOW-INCOME FEMALES: A VIOLATION OF THE FAIR HOUSING ACT IN BOISE, IDAHO? |
4 the crit: a Critical Studies Journal 67 (Winter, 2011) |
C1-3TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction 68 II. The History Of Manufactured Home Displacement In Boise, Idaho 73 III. Potential Legal Frameworks 77 A. Non-Existence Of Constitutional Remedies 77 B. Other Federal Frameworks 79 1. The Fair Housing Act 79 2. Disparate Impact Theory 82 C. Problematic Idaho Law 86 IV. The Violations 87 A. HUD's Own... |
2011 |
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Kinara Flagg |
MENDING THE SAFETY NET THROUGH SOURCE OF INCOME PROTECTIONS: THE NEXUS BETWEEN ANTIDISCRIMINATION AND SOCIAL WELFARE LAW |
20 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 201 (2011) |
Nina is an African American woman and a single mother with five children living in New York City. One of her children is severely disabled. Last year, after a long wait, Nina became eligible for a housing voucher through the federal Housing Choice Voucher Program (also known as Section 8). In spite of the promise of rental assistance, Nina and her... |
2011 |
Yes |
Jordan C. Budd |
PLEDGE YOUR BODY FOR YOUR BREAD: WELFARE, DRUG TESTING, AND THE INFERIOR FOURTH AMENDMENT |
19 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 751 (March, 2011) |
Proposals to subject welfare recipients to periodic drug testing have emerged over the last three years as a significant legislative trend across the United States. Since 2007, over half of the states have considered bills requiring aid recipients to submit to invasive extraction procedures as an ongoing condition of public assistance. The vast... |
2011 |
Yes |
Raj Bhala |
POVERTY, ISLAMIST EXTREMISM, AND THE DEBACLE OF DOHA ROUND COUNTER-TERRORISM: PART ONE OF A TRILOGY--AGRICULTURAL TARIFFS AND SUBSIDIES |
9 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 5 (Fall 2011) |
I. Argument of the Trilogy: Trade as Counter-Terrorism. 8 II. Trade Liberalization, Poverty Alleviation, and Islamist Extremism. 13 A. Is There Really a Link?. 13 B. Nevermind the Regressions. 21 C. Did They Know of the Link?. 23 D. The World Has Not Changed. 30 III. Texts and Documents. 31 A. The December 2008 Draft Modalities Texts. 31 B. The... |
2011 |
Yes |
Catherine Donnelly |
PRIVATIZATION AND WELFARE: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE |
5 Law & Ethics of Human Rights 336 (October, 2011) |
This Article adopts a comparative perspective on the use of privatization by governments in the welfare context. It begins by reviewing the extent of welfare privatization in the US, the UK, and Ireland, considering notable examples such as privatized welfare-to-work schemes and residential care. For example, the question of privatized welfare... |
2011 |
Yes |
David J. MacIsaac |
REACTION TO: WEALTH, POVERTY, AND THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE |
3 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 197 (Fall, 2011) |
An ardent supporter of judicial discretion, Justice Benjamin Cardozo once stated that when judges are called upon to say how far existing rules are to be extended or restricted, they must let the welfare of society fix the path, its direction and its distance. In this Article, Shayan Modarres explores the issue of wealth discrimination, providing... |
2011 |
Yes |
Paige Taylor |
REACTION TO: WEALTH, POVERTY, AND THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE |
3 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 201 (Fall, 2011) |
While Modarres makes clear that the courts have failed to recognize wealth as a suspect classification, he has based his thesis on the convergence of race and poverty, which ha[s] made it a virtual impossibility to consider poverty in a race-neutral manner. Therefore, he argues mostly about racial dynamics rather than proving a factual basis to... |
2011 |
Yes |
Patricia A. Broussard |
REACTION TO: WEALTH, POVERTY, AND THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE |
3 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 199 (Fall, 2011) |
In his Article titled, The Fourteenth Amendment Isn't Broke: Why Wealth Should Be a Suspect Classification under the Equal Protection Clause, Shayan H. Modarres strikes at the heart of the myth of a so-called post-racial America by effectively arguing that poverty has become a proxy for race; thereby creating a de facto economic racism that... |
2011 |
Yes |
Eloise Pasachoff |
SPECIAL EDUCATION, POVERTY, AND THE LIMITS OF PRIVATE ENFORCEMENT |
86 Notre Dame Law Review 1413 (August, 2011) |
This Article examines the appropriate balance between public and private enforcement of statutes seeking to distribute resources or social services to a socioeconomically diverse set of beneficiaries through a case study of the federal special education law, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). It focuses particularly on the... |
2011 |
Yes |
India Geronimo |
SYSTEMIC FAILURE: THE SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST POOR MINORITY STUDENTS |
13 Journal of Law in Society 281 (Fall, 2011) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 281 II. The School to Prison Pipeline. 284 III. Institutional Entrenchment of the School to Prison Pipeline. 286 A. Inter-Institutional Entrenchment: Concentrated Poverty. 286 B. Intra-Institutional Entrenchment: School Administrator Decision-Making. 292 C. Interpersonal Entrenchment: Racialized Expectations... |
2011 |
Yes |
Elizabeth Pierson Hernandez |
TWICE UPROOTED: HOW GOVERNMENT POLICIES EXACERBATE INJURY TO LOW-INCOME AMERICANS FOLLOWING NATURAL DISASTERS |
14 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues 219 (Fall 2011) |
I. Introduction. 220 II. Legal Background. 223 A. A Vague FEMA Policy Shortchanged Thousands of Hurricane Dolly Victims. 223 B. Federal Agencies Have Historically Left Low-Income Disaster Victims Stranded. 226 C. Federal Agencies Discriminate Despite Congressional Direction to the Contrary. 227 III. Analysis. 229 A. FEMA's Policy is Too Vague to be... |
2011 |
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James C. N. Paul , Roktim Kaushik |
URBAN POVERTY AND THE RIGHT TO A DECENT HABITAT AS ESTABLISHED BY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW |
63 Rutgers Law Review 905 (Spring 2011) |
John Payne's contribution to the development of a right to affordable housing in New Jersey, and his broader interest in creating legal strategies to alleviate urban poverty, are among the enduring legacies which he bequeathed to the legal profession. We think this paper would have been of interest to him. It is offered now as a tribute to his... |
2011 |
Yes |
Christopher Dinkel |
WELFARE FAMILY CAPS AND THE ZERO-GRANT SITUATION |
96 Cornell Law Review 365 (January, 2011) |
Introduction. 366 I. Welfare in the United States. 370 A. History of Welfare. 370 B. Welfare Reform and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. 371 II. Welfare Family Caps. 372 A. History of Family Caps. 372 B. The Maximum Family Grant (MFG) Rule. 374 1. Operation of the MFG Rule. 374 2. Zero-Grant Situation... |
2011 |
Yes |
Rachel J. Gallagher |
WELFARE REFORM'S INADEQUATE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FAMILY VIOLENCE OPTION: EXPLORING THE DUAL OPPRESSION OF POOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS |
19 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 987 (2011) |
I. Introduction. 988 II. The History of Welfare--Punitive, Sexist, and Racist Roots. 989 A. Mothers' Pension State Initiatives. 989 B. The Aid to Dependent Children Program (ADC) & Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). 990 C. Contemporary Welfare Policy--Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). 993 III. The Correlation of Welfare... |
2011 |
Yes |
Chava Schwebel |
WELFARE RIGHTS IN CANADIAN AND GERMAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW |
12 German Law Journal 1901 (November 1, 2011) |
According to liberal political theorists, such as John Locke and Adam Smith, liberty and equality are competing values. In Canadian constitutional law, the commitment to liberal individualism has pushed questions of socio-economic rights from the constitutional sphere into the political one. This is not the case in Germany, where the Federal... |
2011 |
Yes |
Leslie Prentice |
"AT RISK FOR INCARCERATION" : WOMEN IN POVERTY, POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, AND MEDICAID |
32 Women's Rights Law Reporter 81 (Fall, 2010) |
Amy Bishop, a neurobiology professor seeking tenure at the University of Alabama, shot six colleagues at a faculty meeting, killing three of them. The media coverage surrounding the incident emphasized the unlikely nature of the crime and the players. For example, the Boston Herald published one article describing Bishop as an oddball and another... |
2010 |
Yes |
Jordan C. Budd |
A FOURTH AMENDMENT FOR THE POOR ALONE: SUBCONSTITUTIONAL STATUS AND THE MYTH OF THE INVIOLATE HOME |
85 Indiana Law Journal 355 (Spring, 2010) |
For much of our nation's history, the poor have faced pervasive discrimination in the exercise of fundamental rights. Nowhere has the impairment been more severe than in the area of privacy. This Article considers the enduring legacy of this tradition with respect to the Fourth Amendment right to domestic privacy. Far from a matter of receding... |
2010 |
Yes |
Monica Teixeira de Sousa |
A RACE TO THE BOTTOM? PRESIDENT OBAMA'S INCOMPLETE AND CONSERVATIVE STRATEGY FOR REFORMING EDUCATION IN STRUGGLING SCHOOLS OR THE PERILS OF IGNORING POVERTY |
39 Stetson Law Review 629 (Spring 2010) |
The Race to the Top Fund (Fund), a competitive federal grant fund designed to spur educational reform at the state level, exposes the major deficit in President Barack Obama's plan for reforming this country's persistently lowest-achieving schools: a reluctance to acknowledge explicitly the relationship between struggling schools and concentrated... |
2010 |
Yes |
J. William Callison |
ACHIEVING OUR COUNTRY: GEOGRAPHIC DESEGREGATION AND THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT |
19 Southern California Review of Law & Social Justice 213 (Spring 2010) |
In A Theory of Justice, John Rawls challenged the view that utilitarianism, which he described as a structure that would require a lesser life prospect [] for some simply for the sake of greater advantage for others, was the correct way to construct a just social order. Instead, Rawls established a construct based on a veil of ignorance.... |
2010 |
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Nekima Levy-Pounds |
CAN THESE BONES LIVE? A LOOK AT THE IMPACTS OF THE WAR ON DRUGS ON POOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES |
7 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 353 (Summer 2010) |
It is no secret that there is currently an incarceration crisis in America. A Pew Report issued in February of 2008 proved one of our worst fears: The United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. In fact, according to the report, one in every one hundred adult Americans is presently incarcerated. One has to look no further... |
2010 |
Yes |
Michael Correll |
GETTING FAT ON GOVERNMENT CHEESE: THE CONNECTION BETWEEN SOCIAL WELFARE PARTICIPATION, GENDER, AND OBESITY IN AMERICA |
18 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 45 (Fall 2010) |
The dramatic increase in obese and overweight Americans over the last two decades has produced enormous scholarly interest. New theories as to the causes, medical consequences, and legal implications of obesity abound. Despite this increase in obesity scholarship, medical, legal, and social science understandings of this topic largely remain... |
2010 |
Yes |
Michael S. Vastine |
GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR . . . AND YOUR CONVICTED? TEACHING "JUSTICE" TO LAW STUDENTS BY DEFENDING CRIMINAL IMMIGRANTS IN REMOVAL PROCEEDINGS |
10 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 341 (Fall 2010) |
Why do you want to participate in the immigration clinic? I asked the student, the fifth of twelve interviews I was conducting that spring day, as my teaching fellow and I sought to choose the incoming class of eight students for the next academic year. I am just totally committed to human rights, she replied. Her earnestness did not leave any... |
2010 |
Yes |
Wendy A. Bach |
GOVERNANCE, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND THE NEW POVERTY AGENDA |
2010 Wisconsin Law Review 239 (2010) |
Across the country a new poverty agenda is emerging. These efforts are limited by the political consensus that has emerged since welfare reform, and the focus, as has always been the case, on the deserving--in today's iteration, primarily the working poor. Mirroring national and international trends, the means of governance of these new social... |
2010 |
Yes |
Matthew Shiers Sternman |
INTEGRATING THE SUBURBS: HARNESSING THE BENEFITS OF MIXED-INCOME HOUSING IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY AND OTHER LOW-POVERTY AREAS |
44 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 1 (Fall, 2010) |
The opportunity for housing is the central goal of the Fair Housing Act. This can be enhanced through the creation of mixed-income housing developments, which increase the opportunity for integration and benefit those moving to a community, as well as those already there. In New Jersey, the decision in Southern Burlington County NAACP v. Mt. Laurel... |
2010 |
Yes |
Gary Stone, New York, NY |
KRIS SHEPARD, RATIONING JUSTICE: POVERTY LAWYERS AND POOR PEOPLE IN THE DEEP SOUTH, BATON ROUGE: LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2007. PP. 396. $55 (ISBN 978-0-8071-3207-1) |
28 Law and History Review 291 (February, 2010) |
Kris Shepard's Rationing Justice provides a detailed study of the provision of free legal services to the poor in civil cases in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Such services were negligible until passage of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, which included monies for the creation of the nationwide Legal Services Program, which was superseded... |
2010 |
Yes |
Stephen B. Bright |
LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR THE POOR: CAN SOCIETY AFFORD THIS MUCH INJUSTICE? |
75 Missouri Law Review 683 (Summer, 2010) |
A New Yorker cartoon depicts a lawyer facing his client, asking the critical question: You've got a pretty good case, how much justice can you afford? Of course, the promise is equal justice for all. But that is an aspiration, not reality. The poor person accused of a crime cannot afford any justice. So how much justice is society going to... |
2010 |
Yes |