| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms in Title or Summary |
| Catherine Jean Archibald |
FORBIDDEN BY THE WTO? DISCRIMINATION AGAINST A PRODUCT WHEN ITS CREATION CAUSES HARM TO THE ENVIRONMENT OR ANIMAL WELFARE |
48 Natural Resources Journal 15 (Winter, 2008) |
Sometimes countries make distinctions between seemingly identical products because of the different impact that each product's processing method has on the environment and/or on animal welfare. When used appropriately, these distinctions can be a powerful force toward positive environmental change, sustainable development, and increased animal... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Tammi D. Jackson |
FREE SOCIAL SERVICES: WHERE DO I ENROLL? -- tHE tRUE COST WELFARE RECIPIENTS AND UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS HAVE ON THE U.S. ECONOMY |
13 Public Interest Law Reporter 271 (Summer 2008) |
Each year the United States government budgets billions of dollars to fund welfare reform and immigration policy. Are the services and resources provided to welfare recipients and undocumented immigrants draining the U.S. economy? Or do the taxes paid and contributions to the economy from these two groups outweigh the social services they receive?... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Harold A. McDougall |
HURRICANE KATRINA: A STORY OF RACE, POVERTY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE |
51 Howard Law Journal 533 (Spring 2008) |
[Katrina] in a matter of hours exposed a dense tangle of previously hidden fault lines on race, national security, public health, the economy, and the environment. --Mike Tidwell Hurricane Katrina resulted in what is now one of the worst natural disasters to hit the United States. Katrina left flooded and contaminated [drinking] water... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Bridgette Baldwin |
IN SUPREME JUDGMENT OF THE POOR: THE ROLE OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT IN WELFARE LAW AND POLICY |
23 Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society 1 (Spring 2008) |
Welfare reform punishes the poor for being poor. Our responsibility . . . is to end poverty as we know it, not welfare. S. Clara Kim At its onset, welfare was reserved almost exclusively for white women. At that time, poverty was understood to be a cause of temporary societal inequity, and welfare was a socially-acceptable solution to those... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Rose Ernst |
LOCALIZING THE "WELFARE QUEEN" TEN YEARS LATER: RACE, GENDER, PLACE, AND WELFARE RIGHTS |
11 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 181 (Winter 2008) |
Mysheda Autry sits on a linoleum floor, watching her three children play with toys from a nearby milk crate. She is pregnant. This photo, featured in The New York Times, marked the tenth anniversary of welfare reform. The caption beneath the photo reads, Today is the 10th anniversary of the law intended to wean poor women off welfare. But Mysheda... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Julie A. Nice |
NO SCRUTINY WHATSOEVER: DECONSTITUTIONALIZATION OF POVERTY LAW, DUAL RULES OF LAW, & DIALOGIC DEFAULT |
35 Fordham Urban Law Journal 629 (April, 2008) |
Poverty Law in the United States subsists within a constitutional framework that constructs a separate and unequal rule of law for poor people. Across constitutional doctrines, poor people suffer diminished protection, with their claims for liberty and equality formally receiving the least judicial consideration and functionally being routinely... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Erika B. Navarro |
NO SUCH THING AS FREE LUNCH: SUPPLEMENTING FEDERAL NUTRITION LAWS TO EFFECTIVELY COMBAT OBESITY IN MINORITY AND LOW-INCOME CHILDREN |
9 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 365 (2008) |
The bottom line is we've got too many kids too overweight and they're walking time bombs -Former President Bill Clinton You would be hard pressed to find anyone today who is unaware of the high obesity rates plaguing American children. The statistics are staggering: the overall number of overweight or obese children has doubled, from 15% to 30%... |
2008 |
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| Howard K. Koh , Sarah Massin-Short , Loris J. Elqura , Christine M. Judge |
POVERTY, SOCIOECONOMIC POSITION, AND CANCER DISPARITIES: GLOBAL CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES |
15 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 663 (Fall, 2008) |
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and will continue to be a major contributor to the chronic disease burden. Addressing the rising global burden of cancer demands a coordinated worldwide approach. However, this challenge first requires understanding the disproportionate burden falling upon poor and low socioeconomic position (SEP)... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Bekah Mandell |
RACE AND STATE-LEVEL EARNED INCOME TAX CREDITS: ANOTHER CASE OF WELFARE RACISM? |
10 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 1 (Special Edition 2008) |
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), with its focus on conditioning welfare benefits on workforce participation, marked a complete overhaul of sixty years of federal social policy in the U.S. In the wake of the 1996 welfare reform and the national shift towards the recommodification of welfare ,... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Felicia Kornbluh |
REDISTRIBUTION, RECOGNITION, AND GOOD CHINA: ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE FOR WOMEN WELFARE RECIPIENTS BEFORE GOLDBERG V. KELLY |
20 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 165 (2008) |
Introduction. 165 I. Fair Hearings and Poverty Law Scholarship: The Need for New Categories. 169 II. Who Brought Fair Hearings and How?. 173 III. Why Women Brought Fair Hearings. 176 IV. Consumer Citizenship and Welfare Justice. 179 V. How Fair the Hearing?. 182 VI. Bargaining in the Shadow of the Hearing: Redistribution. 183 VII. Achieving... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Goodwin Liu |
RETHINKING CONSTITUTIONAL WELFARE RIGHTS |
61 Stanford Law Review 203 (November, 2008) |
A generation ago, Harvard law professor Frank Michelman advanced an influential and provocative vein of scholarship theorizing the content and justiciability of constitutional welfare rights. Michelman's writings, which endure as the most insightful and imaginative work in this area, sought to anchor the Supreme Court's welfare rights jurisprudence... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Lucia A. Silecchia |
THE "PREFERENTIAL OPTION FOR THE POOR": AN OPPORTUNITY AND A CHALLENGE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION-MAKING |
5 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 87 (Winter 2008) |
I. Introduction. 88 II. The Limits of the Current Environmental Debate. 94 III. The Preferential Option for the Poor: A Brief Overview. 100 IV. Implications of the Preferential Option for Catholic Social Teaching on the Environment. 109 A. Human Life and Dignity Must Remain at the Forefront of Any Consideration of Environmental Questions. 111 B.... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Stephen B. Bright |
THE FAILURE TO ACHIEVE FAIRNESS: RACE AND POVERTY CONTINUE TO INFLUENCE WHO DIES |
11 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 23 (December, 2008) |
Despite the promise of Equal Justice Under Law etched on the Supreme Court building, the outcomes of criminal cases continue to be influenced by race and poverty. Race comes into play in the discretionary decisions made by actors, primarily prosecutors, in how cases are treated. It is often hard to ferret out the effect of racial animus on cases... |
2008 |
Yes |
| William E. Forbath |
THE POLITICS OF RACE, RIGHTS, AND NEEDS--AND THE PERILS OF A DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN POST-WELFARE AMERICA: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE WORK OF FELICIA KORNBLUH |
20 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 195 (2008) |
Our first black or first woman President might well help reinvigorate the centuries-old category of the undeserving poor and help refasten it on poor women of color. That is a likely, though unintended, consequence of the kinds of social policies both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama promise to pursue in the post-welfare world of early... |
2008 |
Yes |
| John Hart |
THE POOR OF THE PLANET AND THE PLANET OF THE POOR: ECOLOGICAL ETHICS AND ECONOMIC LIBERATION |
5 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 144 (Winter 2008) |
I. Thomas Paine and Adam Smith. 147 II. The Market and Social Justice. 152 III. The Preferential Option for the Poor: Latin American Origins. 155 IV. Preferential Option for the Poor: U.S. Church Advocacy. 158 A. Strangers and Guests: Midwestern Catholic Bishops. 158 B. Economic Justice for All: U.S. Catholic Bishops. 160 C. Renewing the Earth:... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Ryan Howell |
THROW THE "BUMS" OUT? A DISCUSSION OF THE EFFECTS OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION STATUTES ON LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS THROUGH THE PROCESS OF URBAN GENTRIFICATION IN OLD NEIGHBORHOODS |
11 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 541 (Spring 2008) |
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. In the interest of disclosure, I am both a historic preservationist and a gentrifier. I own a brick Greek Revival house built in 1865 by one of Davenport, Iowa's early brick... |
2008 |
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| Sarah Steinheimer |
WELFARE REFORM AND SEXUAL REGULATION BY ANNA MARIE SMITH. CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2007. 292 PP. $29.99 PAPER. |
23 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 225 (2008) |
In her new book, Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation feminist political theorist, Anna Marie Smith examines how the government attempts to use the welfare system to directly and indirectly influence the decisions poor women make about their intimate and familial relationships. She persuasively argues that under the guise of providing poor women... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Michele Estrin Gilman |
WELFARE, PRIVACY, AND FEMINISM |
39 University of Baltimore Law Forum 1 (Fall 2008) |
The whole system is based on the assumption that you are trying to screw [welfare officials] over. There are constant check-ins and impossibly long lists of verifications' to submit to the state in order to back your story; inquisitions involving a battery of questions asked by countless supervisors behind closed doors when it appears that your... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Patrice H. Kunesh |
A CALL FOR AN ASSESSMENT OF THE WELFARE OF INDIAN CHILDREN IN SOUTH DAKOTA |
52 South Dakota Law Review 247 (2007) |
Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, A relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand. - Black Elk The initial impetus for this Article began in the summer of 2005 when I moved to South Dakota to begin an appointment at the University of South Dakota School of Law. With teaching responsibilities in the areas... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Ruthann Robson |
A DISCUSSION OF POVERTY AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE BETWEEN FRANCES FOX PIVEN AND STEPHEN LOFFREDO |
11 New York City Law Review 1 (Winter, 2007) |
On November 2, 2007, Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the City University of New York and Stephen Loffredo, Professor of Law at the City of University of New York School of Law participated in a discussion of poverty and class. The event was planned and moderated by Professor Ruthann Robson,... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Marie A. Failinger |
A HOME OF ITS OWN: THE ROLE OF POVERTY LAW IN FURTHERING LAW SCHOOLS' MISSIONS |
34 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1173 (May, 2007) |
Eighteen years ago, I (perhaps optimistically) suggested that poverty law was home at last in the legal academy. At that time, the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Section on Poverty Law was growing, which suggested that poverty law had arrived as its own discipline. Also, Loyola New Orleans School of Law's emerging poverty law... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Spencer Rand |
A POVERTY OF REPRESENTATION: THE ATTORNEY'S ROLE TO ADVOCATE FOR THE POWERLESS |
13 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 545 (Symposium 2007) |
I. Why Look at Pro Bono Rules and Representation?. 549 II. What Representation of the Poor We Provide Now. 554 A. One Attorney's Idea of Pro Bono. 554 B. A Poverty of Representation--the Dearth of Pro Bono Help. 556 III. How We Think About Poviding Help for the Poor--ABA Model Rule 6.1. 558 A. Historical Predecessors to Rule 6.1. 558 B. Model Rule... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Jorge O. Elorza |
ABSENTEE LANDLORDS, RENT CONTROL AND HEALTHY GENTRIFICATION: A POLICY PROPOSAL TO DECONCENTRATE THE POOR IN URBAN AMERICA |
17 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy 1 (Fall 2007) |
Empirical data overwhelmingly suggests that the presence of middle- and working-class homeowners is beneficial for inner-city communities. Yet, absentee landlords have a systematic financial advantage over resident landlords when it comes to purchasing homes in blighted neighborhoods. This advantage has disastrous effects for inner cities, as the... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Justine M. Cannon |
ACCOUNTABILITY IN RECONSTRUCTION: THE NEED FOR FEDERAL INVOLVEMENT IN POST-DISASTER RECONSTRUCTION TO PROTECT HOUSING INTERESTS OF POOR AND MINORITY RESIDENTS |
47 Santa Clara Law Review 93 (2007) |
When a major disaster devastates a region, the cost of both emergency assistance to residents and reconstruction of damaged infrastructure can be exorbitant. Congress has maintained some form of federal disaster relief program for nearly two centuries to assist states in these efforts. The current program provides qualifying states no less than... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Katrin C. Rowan |
ANTI-EXCLUSIONARY ZONING IN PENNSYLVANIA: A WEAPON FOR DEVELOPERS, A LOSS FOR LOW-INCOME PENNSYLVANIANS |
80 Temple Law Review 1271 (Winter 2007) |
In 1974, seven landowners proposed to develop several thousand units of apartments, townhouses, and mobile homes in Buckingham Township, an outer suburb of Philadelphia. The 1970 census indicated that Buckingham was home to only 5150 residents and 1609 housing units. The proposed housing would have increased the number of Buckingham's housing units... |
2007 |
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| Marisa Chappell, Oregon State University |
BLAME WELFARE: IGNORE POVERTY AND INEQUALITY. BY JOEL F. HANDLER AND YEHESKEL HASENFELD. NEW YORK: CAMBRIDGE UNIV. PRESS, 2007. PP. XIII+401. $80.00 CLOTH; $29.99 PAPER |
41 Law and Society Review 988 (December, 2007) |
Despite its clumsy and potentially misleading title, Handler and Hasenfeld's Blame Welfare: Ignore Poverty and Inequality provides a useful synthesis of recent research on welfare, poverty, and the low-wage labor market in the United States in service of the authors' thesis, that the nation must reject the symbolic politics of welfare reform and... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Janet Thompson Jackson |
CAN FREE ENTERPRISE CURE URBAN ILLS?: LOST OPPORTUNITIES FOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT IN URBAN, LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES THROUGH THE NEW MARKETS TAX CREDIT PROGRAM |
37 University of Memphis Law Review 659 (Summer, 2007) |
I. A Historical Perspective on Free Enterprise in the African-American Community. 664 A. Segregation and Black Enterprise. 665 B. The Decline of the Inner City. 669 C. The Economic Impact of the Civil Rights Movement. 670 D. Federal Community Economic Development Programs. 672 E. Minority Business Development Programs. 675 F. The Growth of... |
2007 |
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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW -- FOURTH AMENDMENT -- NINTH CIRCUIT UPHOLDS CONDITIONING RECEIPT OF WELFARE BENEFITS ON CONSENT TO SUSPICIONLESS HOME VISITS. -- SANCHEZ V. COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO, 464 F.3D 916 (9TH CIR. 2006). |
120 Harvard Law Review 1996 (May, 2007) |
Americans have an uneasy relationship with welfare. Still haunted by President Reagan's image of the welfare queen, the public has bemoaned the existence of undeserving recipients--in particular those who commit welfare fraud. Counties, seeking to minimize the incidence of fraud, have established verification procedures that inherently infringe... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Timothy Overton |
EMPTY LAWS MAKE FOR EMPTY STOMACHS: HOLLOW PUBLIC HOUSING LAWS IN UTAH AND OTHER STATES FORCE THE NATION'S POOR TO CHOOSE BETWEEN ADEQUATE HOUSING AND LIFE'S OTHER NECESSITIES |
21 BYU Journal of Public Law 495 (2007) |
Section 8, the projects, vouchers, rental assistance, affordable housing, the tax credit, low-income housing and moderate-income housing are all words or terms used to describe forms of public housing. Public housing programs are designed to provide housing or housing assistance to persons and families with very low to moderate income, to elderly... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Senator John Edwards |
ENDING POVERTY: THE GREAT MORAL ISSUE OF OUR TIME |
25 Yale Law and Policy Review 337 (Spring 2007) |
This is an important moment in time for our country. The focus of this Essay will be on poverty. But we cannot address an issue like poverty without answering a few basic questions--questions we ought to be asking ourselves and answers we ought to be demanding from our leaders about how we as a nation are going to confront the very real and very... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Andrea Freeman |
FAST FOOD: OPPRESSION THROUGH POOR NUTRITION |
95 California Law Review 2221 (December, 2007) |
Fast food has become a major source of nutrition in low-income, urban neighborhoods across the United States. Although some social and cultural factors account for fast food's overwhelming popularity, targeted marketing, infiltration into schools, government subsidies, and federal food policy each play a significant role in denying inner-city... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Michele Estrin Gilman |
FIGHTING POVERTY WITH FAITH: REFLECTIONS ON TEN YEARS OF CHARITABLE CHOICE |
10 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 395 (Spring 2007) |
In 1996, welfare reform legislation spurred heated debates over tough new work requirements for welfare recipients and lifetime limits on welfare benefits. Advocates sought to eliminate dependency on government; opponents feared widespread impoverishment of women and children. In the midst of the uproar, then-Senator John Ashcroft quietly inserted... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Nekima Levy-Pounds |
FROM THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE: HOW POOR WOMEN OF COLOR AND CHILDREN ARE AFFECTED BY SENTENCING GUIDELINES AND MANDATORY MINIMUMS |
47 Santa Clara Law Review 285 (2007) |
Through a string of recent decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court has drawn attention to the adverse consequences that flow from the enforcement of harsh federal sentencing guidelines and mandatory minimums used to punish drug offenders. In United States v. Booker, the Court drastically altered the strictures of these guidelines by pronouncing them to... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Charles Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, Jacob Vigdor, Justin Wheeler |
HIGH-POVERTY SCHOOLS AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS |
85 North Carolina Law Review 1345 (June, 2007) |
Although many factors combine to make a successful school, most people agree that quality teachers and school principals are among the most important requirements for success, especially when success is defined by the ability of the school to raise the achievement of its students. The central question for this study is how the quality of the... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Ann O'Leary |
HOW FAMILY LEAVE LAWS LEFT OUT LOW-INCOME WORKERS |
28 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 1 (2007) |
Recent media attention has focused on professional women who have opted out of the paid labor market to care for their children. By contrast, the media has paid less attention to low-income women who have been required to opt in to the workforce over the past ten years as a result of the nation's overhaul of the welfare system. As women's... |
2007 |
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| Vicki Lens |
IN THE FAIR HEARING ROOM: RESISTANCE AND CONFRONTATION IN THE WELFARE BUREAUCRACY |
32 Law and Social Inquiry 309 (Spring, 2007) |
This article explores how welfare clients use and experience the fair hearing system, the administrative mechanism for challenging denials or reductions of aid in public welfare bureaucracies. Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with clients, it explores how old-style procedural protections like fair hearings are being used to challenge... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Lisa R. Pruitt |
MISSING THE MARK: WELFARE REFORM AND RURAL POVERTY |
10 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 439 (Spring 2007) |
This article considers welfare reform's impact in rural America. Professor Pruitt asserts that federal welfare reform legislation, the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), reflects an urban political agenda that failed to consider rural realities. Based on her analysis of two particular populations--those living in... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Amy L. Wax |
MUSICAL CHAIRS AND TALL BUILDINGS: TEACHING POVERTY LAW IN THE 21ST CENTURY |
34 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1363 (May, 2007) |
America has not yet abolished poverty. The definition and proper measure of poverty have long been a subject of controversy, and there is no consensus on how many people in the United States are poor. But no one denies that the poor continue to be with us. This is unlikely to change soon. It does not follow from this that poverty should be... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Henry M. Levin |
ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POVERTY AND CURRICULUM |
85 North Carolina Law Review 1381 (June, 2007) |
Poverty and educational failure have been inextricably linked in American education. Students from low-income backgrounds experience relatively low levels of academic achievement and fewer years of educational attainment relative to students from higher-income categories. This Article analyzes the degree to which this educational disadvantage is... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Russell W. Rumberger |
PARSING THE DATA ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN HIGH-POVERTY SCHOOLS |
85 North Carolina Law Review 1293 (June, 2007) |
The growth of state and federal accountability systems has fueled more interest into research on understanding both the causes and the solutions to the widespread disparities in student achievement. This study utilized data from a longitudinal study of elementary school students to examine trends in student achievement over the first six years of... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Edward M. Thomas |
PLAYING CHICKEN AT THE WTO: DEFENDING AN ANIMAL WELFARE-BASED TRADE RESTRICTION UNDER GATT'S MORAL EXCEPTION |
34 Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 605 (2007) |
The European Parliament recently adopted a proposal mandating higher welfare standards for chicken used in meat production, including a provision that would regulate or prohibit the importation of chicken not produced with the same high standards. Final passage of such a law would likely raise a World Trade Organization (WTO) complaint by... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Troy E. Elder |
POOR CLIENTS, INFORMED CONSENT, AND THE ETHICS OF REJECTION |
20 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 989 (Fall, 2007) |
C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 990 II. The (Modernists') Rationing Conundrum. 993 A. THE POSITIVISTS. 994 B. THE RIGHTS THEORIST. 996 C. THE COMMUNITARIAN. 999 III. Informed Consent. 1002 A. PATIENT INFORMED CONSENT. 1003 B. CLIENT INFORMED CONSENT. 1004 IV. Food Stamps and Foucault: The Theoretics of Practice Movement. 1007 V. A Theoretics... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Susan Vivian Mangold |
POOR ENOUGH TO BE ELIGIBLE? CHILD ABUSE, NEGLECT, AND THE POVERTY REQUIREMENT |
81 Saint John's Law Review 575 (Summer 2007) |
An abused or neglected child must be poor to be eligible for federal funds for foster care maintenance payments. The income eligibility criteria forces agency workers to focus on the poverty status of a child's family. The agency should instead focus exclusively on the child and family's safety and service needs. The income eligibility assessment... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Jason A. Gillmer |
POOR WHITES, BENEVOLENT MASTERS, AND THE IDEOLOGIES OF SLAVERY: THE LOCAL TRIAL OF A SLAVE ACCUSED OF RAPE |
85 North Carolina Law Review 489 (January, 2007) |
This Article analyzes in detail a case involving a slave accused of raping a white woman in the 1850s to offer a provocative challenge to our basic assumptions about sex and race in the slave South. Joining a new group of cultural-legal historians, the author looks beyond the legal language of Southern legislatures and high courts, and focuses... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Leah J. Tulin |
POVERTY AND CHRONIC CONDITIONS DURING NATURAL DISASTERS: A GLIMPSE AT HEALTH, HEALING, AND HURRICANE KATRINA |
14 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 115 (Winter, 2007) |
This Note examines the provision of emergency health care services to people living with chronic health conditions from a perspective of social justice. After establishing the persistent connection between poverty and chronic health conditions, the Note uses the experience of New Orleans residents during Hurricane Katrina as a window into the... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Helen Hershkoff |
POVERTY LAW AND CIVIL PROCEDURE: RETHINKING THE FIRST-YEAR COURSE |
34 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1325 (May, 2007) |
The administration of American justice is not impartial, the rich and the poor do not stand on an equality before the law, the traditional method of providing justice has operated to close the doors of the courts to the poor, and has caused a gross denial of justice in all parts of the country to millions of persons. This Essay explores whether and... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Michael A. Rebell |
POVERTY, "MEANINGFUL" EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY, AND THE NECESSARY ROLE OF THE COURTS |
85 North Carolina Law Review 1467 (June, 2007) |
Through state standards-based education reform initiatives and the Federal No Child Left Behind Act, the United States has made an unprecedented and extraordinary commitment to ensuring that all children will meet challenging academic proficiency standards. To date, however, little progress has been made toward meeting this ambitious mandate,... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Stephen Loffredo |
POVERTY, INEQUALITY, AND CLASS IN THE STRUCTURAL CONSTITUTIONAL LAW COURSE |
34 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1239 (May, 2007) |
Poverty, economic inequality, class, and distributional justice are issues embedded in our constitutional history. They have animated important developments in our constitutional understandings and hold deep, though frequently unacknowledged, significance for constitutional theory and doctrine. Historically, considerations of poverty, inequality,... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Mark R. Rank |
RETHINKING THE SCOPE AND IMPACT OF POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES |
6 Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal 165 (Spring/Summer, 2007) |
In considering various aspects of tax policies for the working poor, a helpful place to begin is through understanding the scope of American poverty. For many Americans, the image of poverty is that of people on the fringes of society-single mothers with four or five children, inner city black males, high school dropouts, the homeless, and so on... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Michael A. Millemann |
SETTING AN AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE DELIVERY OF LEGAL SERVICES TO THE POOR IN MARYLAND |
7 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 215 (Fall 2007) |
On October 11, 2007, The University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class sponsored a symposium on the delivery of legal services to the poor in Maryland in recognition of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Maryland Legal Services Corporation. In the afternoon of that all-day program, there was a roundtable discussion about... |
2007 |
Yes |