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Symposium Issue on Indian Economic Development
Posted on July 12, 2009For those who are interested, the South Dakota Law Review has published a special issue (available through lexis, westlaw, or hein) on Indian Economic Development, 54 S.D. L. Rev. 365-533 (2009). -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu P.S. this is a photo of Shiprock,...
Last Blog Posting for Poverty Law Prof Blog: New Site is at http://maximinlaw.wordpress.com/
Posted on July 12, 2009The editors of the Law Professor Blog Network have decided to eliminate less active blogs and, not being a blog with daily updates, the Poverty Law Prof Blog easily falls in this category and is therefore being eliminated from the...
Article of Interest: "The Case for Banning Subprime Mortgages"
Posted on July 11, 2009Alan White, The Case for Banning Subprime Mortgages, 77 U. Cin. L. Rev. 617 (2008). The paper -- it may be an earlier draft -- is on SSRN here. The abstract is below: While the subprime mortgage boom was in...
Article of Interest: "Tainted Loans: The Value of a Mass Torts Approach in Subprime Mortgage Litigation"
Posted on July 03, 2009First a somewhat related news story from last month: Vivian S. Toy, "Penetrating the Maze of Mortgage Relief," New York Times, June 12, 2009 (discussing the work of housing advocates). Ray Brescia has posted "Tainted Loans: The Value of a...
Article of Interest: "Can't Buy Me Love"
Posted on June 30, 2009An interesting article came out that unfortunately seems to be available only on Lexis or Westlaw. But the article is: Aly Parker, Can't Buy Me Love: Funding Marriage Promotion Versus Listening to Real Needs in Breaking the Cycle of Poverty....
Northeast People of Color Conference 2009: America's New Class Warfare?
Posted on June 28, 2009From the Legal Scholarship Blog: The Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference (NEPOC) 2009 will take place October 23-25 at the University at Buffalo Law School in Buffalo, New York. During last year?s NEPOC, we experienced the monumental collapse...
New York Times Article on Microloans and Training
Posted on June 25, 2009Story of interest: Kate Murphy, "Lending Talent, and Money, on a Micro Scale," New York Times, June 24, 2009. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Article of Interest: "The Ethics of Poverty Tourism"
Posted on June 24, 2009This blog has done a number of posts on poverty tourism or related activities (the debate over Slumdog Millionaire) and a new paper of interest tackles this head on: Evan Selinger & Kevin Outterson, The Ethics of Poverty Tourism (BU...
(My) Parody Article
Posted on June 21, 2009Excuse the self-promoting aspect of this posting! My parody article has been published. The article is about becoming a professor but might be of interest to readers of this blog because it includes a lengthy section on class and the...
Article of Interest: "Freedom, Want and Economic and Social Rights: Frame and Law"
Posted on June 18, 2009Katherine Young has posted "Freedom, Want and Economic and Social Rights: Frame and Law" 24 Maryland J. of Int. L. 176 (2009) to SSRN. Abstract below: In 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognized the aspiration for everyone to...
Barbara Ehrenreich on the focus on the new poor vs the already poor in the recession
Posted on June 15, 2009An Op-Ed of interest that I was happy to see, having read too many stories of the ultrarich becoming the merely rich -- I just finished Roger Lowenstein's When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (2000)...
Article of Interest: "No Way Out: An Analysis of Exit Processes for Gang Injunctions"
Posted on June 13, 2009Lindsay Crawford, "No Way Out: An Analysis of Exit Processes for Gang Injunctions," 97 Cal. L. Rev. 161 (2009). An explanation of the gang injuctions from the article: "gang injunctions restrict the activities of named gang members in a variety...
Cornell Law Review issue on Property and Obligation
Posted on June 12, 2009Quite interesting Cornell Law Review issue: SPECIAL ISSUE Property and Obligation A Statement of Progressive Property Gregory S. Alexander, Eduardo M. Peñalver, Joseph William Singer & Laura S. Underkuffler Articles The Social-Obligation Norm in American Property Law Gregory S...
Call for Papers from Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law
Posted on June 11, 2009From the Legal Scholarship Blog: The Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law, the legal publication of the American Bar Association?s Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, is currently seeking submissions from students, professors, and practitioners...
Labor Organizer and Immigrant Rights Center First Person Account in New York Times
Posted on June 10, 2009An interesting article: Elena Herrada, "We Came to Work," New York Times, June 9, 2009. Also of note, a story about the decline of Big Law: Alan Feuer, "A Study in Why Major Law Firms Are Shrinking," New York Times,...
New Issue of Pathways: Going Global: Antipoverty Lessons from Around the World
Posted on June 07, 2009The Spring issue of Pathways, the poverty, inequality, and social policy magazine of The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, has now been published. The issue (full PDF available here) includes: Editors' Note by David Grusky and....
Call for Papers from The Scholar: St. Mary?s Law Review on Minority Issues
Posted on June 01, 2009The Scholar: St. Mary?s Law Review on Minority Issues is soliciting articles for upcoming volumes. Our publication is committed to raising the awareness of those individuals in our society who traditionally have been voiceless. The Scholar furthers legal discourse on...
World Food Program's new food market: Purchase for Progress
Posted on May 18, 2009A new article of interest (includes a somewhat skeptical interview of Amartya Sen), Frederick Kaufman, "Let Them Eat Cash: Can Bill Gates Turn Hunger into Profit?" Harper's Magazine, June 2009. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Alan B. Morrison to be the GW's first Lerner Family Associate Dean for Public Interest and Public Service Law
Posted on May 13, 2009The GW Press Release is here. Congratulations Alan! -E.R.
Jason DeParle on State Aid for those in need
Posted on May 11, 2009Jason DeParle has a new story of interest, "For Recession Victims, Patchwork State Aid," New York Times, May 9, 2009. There is also an associated graphic on the variations in aid across the country. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Article of Interest: Keith Cunningham-Parmeter on Redefining the Rights of Undocumented Workers
Posted on May 09, 2009Keith Cunningham-Parmeter has posted his article, Redefining the Rights of Undocumented Workers, to SSRN. The abstract is below: Should a nation extend legal rights to those who enter the country illegally? The Supreme Court recently addressed this question when it...
Call for Papers: Children and the Law Junior Faculty Workshop
Posted on May 08, 2009Call for Papers Children and the Law Junior Faculty Workshop July 16 -17, 2009 The Frances Lewis Law Center at Washington & Lee University is sponsoring a workshop for junior scholars working on legal issues related to children. The workshop...
Disaster Planning and Vulnerable Populations
Posted on May 08, 2009It is about to be the start of hurricane season again (it may already be -- since I moved from New Orleans I don't follow it as much as I used to; where I am now the local weatherman is...
Social Welfare Action Alliance 2009 Conference: "Building the Unsettling Force: A National Conference to Abolish Poverty"
Posted on May 08, 2009The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign and The Social Welfare Action Alliance are sponsoring a conference, "Building the Unsettling Force: A National Conference to Abolish Poverty," July 16-19, 2009 in Louisville, KY at Spalding University. From the organizers: This...
Symposium Issue on "New Directions in Clinical Legal Education"
Posted on May 05, 2009The articles connected to the symposium "New Directions in Clinical Legal Education" are available on the Washington University Journal of Law & Policy's website. Also on their site, under issue 24, is an article that I missed but that is...
Poverty Conference at Harvard Law this weekend
Posted on April 30, 2009Sorry for the late notice, I just came across this! The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute and the Advanced Leadership Initiative, both at Harvard, are sponsoring a workshop on "Poverty, Justice, and Jobs," today through May 2nd. The agenda includes an...
Ray Brescia on The Community Reinvestment Act and The Financial Crisis
Posted on April 28, 2009Ray Brescia has posted "Part of the Disease or Part of the Cure: The Financial Crisis and the Community Reinvestment Act," 60 S. Car. L. Rev. 617 (2009) to SSRN. The abstract is below: Some commentators charge that the federal...
Poverty/Wealth Krugman Op-Ed on Wall Street salaries
Posted on April 27, 2009Another Op-Ed of note: Paul Krugman, "Money for Nothing," New York Times, Apr. 26, 2009. - Hopefully anger at the wealthy will become something more; a generalized recognition of the role of structure (and not simply or even primarily merit)...
Reminder of upcoming deadlines! Poverty Law Section AALS & LatCrit
Posted on April 27, 2009Though I have already posted info, this is a final reminder that deadlines are fast approaching for submissions for both the AALS Poverty Law Section's panel (due May 1) and LatCrit 2009 (due Today, Apr. 27). The Poverty Section info...
Deliberate Shrinkage of Flint
Posted on April 24, 2009Flint, Michigan, and its long-standing efforts to deal with decline is once again (see Roger & Me) in the news: David Streitfeld, "An Effort to Save Flint, Mich, by Shrinking It," New York Times, Apr. 21, 2009. The plan -...
New York Times Op-Ed on Poor Children
Posted on April 21, 2009Bob Herbert, "Children in Peril," New York Times, Apr. 20, 2009.
Interactive Map on Rising Unemployment
Posted on April 21, 2009The Center for American Progress has put together an interactive state-by-state map of the rise in unemployment rates and on job losses. The timeline on the page works well.
Richard Posner on Executive Compensation
Posted on April 18, 2009A new article of interest: Richard A. Posner, Are American CEOs Overpaid, And, If So, What If Anything Should Be Done About It?, 58 Duke L.J. 1013 (2009). -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Conference: Third Annual Indian Law Clinical Conference on Communities of Color, Economic Justice and Poverty Law
Posted on April 17, 2009From Christine Zuni Cruz: We invite everyone to join us at our 3rd Annual Indian Law Clinical Conference. This year we will be focusing on Poverty and Economic Justice issues and lawyering for Indigenous Peoples and other Communities. Interconnections of...
Bill Quigley to be the new Legal Director of The Center for Constitutional Rights
Posted on April 17, 2009Bill Quigley is changing jobs from teaching at Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, where he ran the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center, to being the new Legal Director of The Center for Constitutional Rights. The CCR press release...
Downloadable Video of (older) Symposium on The Low-Wage Worker
Posted on April 16, 2009Videos of the panels 2007 Minnesota Law Review Symposium on The Low-Wage Worker: Legal Rights--Legal Realities from Nov. 7, 2007 are available on their website. The panels focus on minimum wage legislation, organizing strategies, immigrant workers, and big box stores...
Symposium Publication: The School Desegregation Cases and the Uncertain Future of Racial Equality
Posted on April 15, 2009The Ohio State Law Journal has published Symposium: The School Desegregation Cases and the Uncertain Future of Racial Equality. The articles are: Ruth Colker, Reflections on Race: The Limits of Formal Equality, 69 Ohio St. L.J. 1089 (2009). Angela N....
Unions Come Together on Immigration
Posted on April 14, 2009New York Times article of interest: Julia Preston & Steven Greenhouse, "Immigration Accord by Labor Boosts Obama Effort," New York Times, Apr. 13, 2009.
Buffalo Law Review's ClassCrits Issue
Posted on April 14, 2009The most recent Buffalo Law Review issue (vol. 56, no. 4) focuses on class related issues, both from a theory angle and from a case-based approach. The articles unfortunately are not available on the law review's webpage, but the review...
Wash. Post on Poverty, Stress, and Brain Impairment in Children
Posted on April 12, 2009A recent newspaper article of interest: Rob Stein, "Research Links Poor Kids' Stress, Brain Impairment," Washington Post, Apr. 6, 2009. The second paragraph of the article: "Now, research is providing what could be crucial clues to explain how childhood poverty...
Article of Interest: A. Mechele Dickerson on the Myth of Home Ownership
Posted on April 12, 2009The Indian Law Journal just published: A. Mechele Dickerson, The Myth of Home Ownership and Why Home Ownership Is Not Always a Good Thing, 84 Ind. L.J. 189 (2009). The abstract is below: Home ownership is viewed as key to...
Jeffrey Sachs on Shape of U.S. International Aid
Posted on April 09, 2009Jeffrey Sachs just published an Op-Ed on improving Obama's international aid for agriculture through local participation in shaping the program. Jeffrey Sachs, "Homegrown Aid," New York Times, Apr. 8, 2009. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Maine Law Review Call for Papers: Accessing Justice in Hard Times
Posted on April 07, 2009The Maine Law Review plans to publish a symposium issue in the Spring of 2010 entitled Accessing Justice in Hard Times: Lessons from the Field, Looking to the Future. The purpose of this symposium is to gather together, in one...
Op-Ed on Sources of Popular Anger
Posted on April 07, 2009The Los Angles Times has an op-ed of interest: Tim Rutten, "Unemployment, and CEO pay, on the rise," Los Angeles Times, Apr. 4, 2009. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Movie of Note: Crossing Over
Posted on April 03, 2009The new movie, Crossing Over (trailer here), starring among others Harrison Ford, does a great job of showing the hardships involved in U.S. deportation policies, particularly as how they split apart often poor families. It didn't get a good review...
Picturing the Recession - New York Times
Posted on April 03, 2009The New York Times has a new webpage of photos submitted by readers related to the recession. It is interesting in and of itself, but their selection of a photo I took of my dad, available here, gave me another...
Eduardo M. Peñalver on Squatters
Posted on March 31, 2009A Slate.com article of interest: Eduardo M. Peñalver, "Homesteaders in the Hood," Slate.com, March 25, 2009. -Thanks to Jonathan Zimmer for the heads up! E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
New York Times: Cities Deal with a Surge in Shantytowns
Posted on March 26, 2009From the New York Times: Jesse McKinley, "Cities Deal with a Surge in Shantytowns," New York Times, March 25, 2009. Slideshow here. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu.
Drug Testing Beneficiaries of Unemployment or Welfare Funding
Posted on March 26, 2009News story here: AP, "States Consider Drug Tests for Welfare Recipients," March 26, 2009. Commentary on Dissenting Justice Blog here. -Thanks to Darren Hutchinson for the heads up. E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu.
New Book: Corey S. Schdaimah, Negotiating Justice
Posted on March 24, 2009A new book of interest: Corey S. Schdaimah, Negotiating Justice: Progressive Lawyering, Low-Income Clients, and the Quest for Social Change (2009). Amazon link here. Overview below: While many young people become lawyers for the big bucks, others are motivated by...
Conference: Color of Wealth 2009 Policy Summit | March 23-24, 2009 | Washington DC
Posted on March 19, 2009From The Insight Center: The Insight Center is proud to announce the ?Color of Wealth 2009 Policy Summit: Wealth Building for All: The Foundation for Economic Growth in the Global Marketplace? to be held on March 23rd and 24th in...
CALL FOR PROPOSALS The New Anti-Poverty Advocacy: Constructs, Strategies, and Tactics
Posted on March 17, 2009CALL FOR PROPOSALS The New Anti-Poverty Advocacy: Constructs, Strategies, and Tactics Section on Poverty Law; Association of American Law Schools; Annual Meeting Program, January 2010; New Orleans, Louisiana Statements of Interest Due May 1, 2009 The recent pronounced shifts in...
New Poll on Economic Mobility and the American Dream from the Economic Mobility Project
Posted on March 16, 2009From the Economic Mobility Project: In early 2009, the project commissioned a national survey and series of focus groups to provide a more accurate picture of how Americans view their own economic mobility and to better understand how their perceptions...
Americans' Household Wealth Falls by Trillions - NYTimes
Posted on March 13, 2009Of note: Vikas Bajaj, "Household Wealth Falls by Trillions," New York Times, March 12, 2009 (does not include this year's stock market declines).
Call for Papers and Panels: LatCrit XIV, Oct 1-4, 2009, American University (DC)
Posted on March 11, 2009LatCrit XIV is being hosted by American University Washington College of Law on Oct. 1-4, 2009. The theme of this year's conference is: OUTSIDERS INSIDE: CRITICAL OUTSIDER THEORY AND PRAXIS IN THE POLICYMAKING OF THE NEW AMERICAN REGIME. The conference...
Article of Interest: "Laboratories of Destitution: Democratic Experimentalism and the Failure of Antipoverty Law"
Posted on March 07, 2009New Article of Interest: David A. Super, Laboratories of Destitution: Democratic Experimentalism and the Failure of Antipoverty Law, 157 U. Penn. L. Rev. 541 (2008). Abstract below:Democratic experimentalism, the procedural component of the ?new governance? movement, has won widespread acceptance...
CLASP: Stimulus Package and Poverty
Posted on March 06, 2009CLASP has a brief, 5-page, "Preliminary Summary of Key Provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Aimed at Improving the Lives of Low-Income Americans," Feb. 13, 2009. It quickly runs through the funding streams in bullet points. -Thanks to...
Article of Interest: "Americans' Social Policy Preferences in the Era of Rising Inequality"
Posted on March 02, 2009Good Mapping Source: Dataplace.org
Posted on February 26, 2009For those looking for a great resource for understanding how cities change over time or who want to look at demographics such as poverty rates in different parts of a city, www.dataplace.org is GREAT! I have only begun to explore...
Pathways Winter 2009 Issue: focus on healthcare
Posted on February 24, 2009The newest issue of Pathways, a publication of the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, is out and focuses on healthcare. Most of the articles are about healthcare reform but there are also articles about EITC and...
Article of Interest: "Broadening the Right to Acquire Capital with the Earnings of Capital"
Posted on February 20, 2009Robert Ashford has posted "Broadening the Right to Acquire Capital with the Earnings of Capital: The Missing Link to Sustainable Economic Recovery and Growth" to SSRN. The abstract is below:This article presents a proposal to broaden the right to acquire...
News Coverage of use of Food Banks
Posted on February 20, 2009Story here: Julie Bosman, "Newly Poor Swell Lines at Food Banks Nationwide," New York Times, Feb. 19, 2009. Also for those teaching, the following story though not on poverty but on student grade expectations may be of interest. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american...
Call for Papers: Subprime Mortgages Database Project
Posted on February 18, 2009Courtesy of SSRN: CALL FOR PAPERS: INVESTIGATING LENDER PRACTICES IN THE SUBPRIME MORTGAGE MARKET Proposal Deadline: MARCH 31, 2009 The Valparaiso University School of Law and the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) invite proposals for papers based on a unique...
Mortgage Plan and Welfare
Posted on February 18, 2009Coverage of Obama's Mortgage Plan: Renae Merle, "$75B Program Aims to Lower Mortgages, Foreclosures," Washington Post, Feb. 18, 2009. Mark S. Smith & Alan Ziebel, "Obama's Foreclosure Plan Seeks to Save Millions from Losing Homes," AP, Feb. 18, 2009 (link...
Call for Law and Society Roundtable Participants: Teaching Gender Inequality in Law Schools
Posted on February 16, 2009CALL FOR ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS; CRN No. 9 (Gender and Legal Education) LAW AND SOCIETY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING, May 28-31, 2009, Denver, CO DEADLINE FOR PROPOSAL: FEBRUARY 25, 2009 Roundtable: Teaching Gender Inequality in Law Schools Conversations about gender and sexuality...
Article of Interest: "Subprime Communities: Reverse Redlining, the Fair Housing Act and Emerging Issues in Litigation Regarding the Subprime Mortgage Crisis"
Posted on February 13, 2009A new and timely article of interest: Ray Brescia, Subprime Communities: Reverse Redlining, the Fair Housing Act and Emerging Issues in Litigation Regarding the Subprime Mortgage Crisis, 2 Albany Gov't L. Rev. 164 (2009). The abstract is below:As the nation...
Washington Post: "Out of Work and Challenged on Benefits, Too"
Posted on February 13, 2009News article of interest: Peter Whoriskey, "Out of Work and Challenged on Benefits, Too," Washington Post, Feb. 12, 2009 (about employers blocking payouts to former employees). -Thanks to Francine Lipman for the heads up! E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Free Audio Training: Housing is a Human Right: Human Rights Framing for Housing & Homeless Advocates
Posted on February 11, 2009From the NATIONAL LAW CENTER ON HOMELESSNESS & POVERTY Free Audio Training on Housing is a Human Right: Human Rights Framing for Housing & Homeless Advocates February 25, 2009 2:00 - 3:00 pm ET. Overview: The human rights system provides...
New Article: "Tenants: Innocent Victims of the Nation's Foreclosure Crisis"
Posted on February 10, 2009A new article of interest (though unfortunately I could only find it available through Lexis or Westlaw): Vicki Been & Allegra Glashausser, Tenants: Innocent Victims of the Nation's Foreclosure Crisis, 2 Alb. Gov't L. Rev. 1 (2009). The article is...
Jason DeParle on Welfare
Posted on February 09, 2009Jason DeParle has a new article that while not breaking new ground does quickly present the major debates in welfare policy: what should count, should it be tied to work, deserving/undeserving, etc... The article is: Jason DeParle, "The 'W' Word,...
Article of Interest: "Distributive Justice and Private Law"
Posted on February 08, 2009Article of Interest: Aditi Bagchi, Distributive Justice and Private Law, 60 Hastings L.J. 105 (2008). Only available on Lexis or Westlaw (not public available that I could find). -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Upcoming Conference: The Evolving Definition of the Immigrant Worker
Posted on February 06, 2009The University of San Francisco's Law Review Symposium is "The Evolving Definition of the Immigrant Worker: The Intersection Between Employment, Labor, and Human Rights Law," Feb. 27, 2009. The registration information is here and the participant bios can be found...
Upcoming Conference: Property Ownership and Economic Stability
Posted on February 06, 2009Saint Louis University School of Law Public Law Review is hosting "Property Ownership and Economic Stability: A Necessary Relationship?" on Feb. 27, 2009. The schedule can be found here and the participants here. The overview of the conference is below:The...
Social Entreprenuership and Obama
Posted on February 05, 2009Of interest perhaps to students considering applying for social entreprenuership grants such as Echoing Green is a short paper on what Obama could do to support such activities: Michele Jolin, "Innovating the White House: How the next President of the...
Conference Announcement: "Getting It Right: The Government's Role in Housing and Economic Development"
Posted on February 03, 2009Brooklyn Law School and the Brooklyn Law School Journal of Law and Policy are sponsoring "Getting it Right: The Government's Role in Housing and Economic Development" on Friday, March 27, 2009. The program is here. -Courtesy of of the Legal...
NY Times, "Welfare Aid Isn't Growing as Economy Drops Off"
Posted on February 03, 2009Article of interest: Jason DeParle, "Welfare Aid Isn't Growing as Economy Drops Off," New York Times, Feb. 1, 2009 (associated graphic here). -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
News Topic of the Day: Wall Street Bonuses and Obama
Posted on January 30, 2009The bonuses paid by companies that failed (or rather were in danger of failing and needed a rescue) have received a lot of attention recently, including from Obama today. Below are stories tied to this theme. Sheryl Gay Stolberg &...
For those who couldn't make AALS: podcast of Poverty Section's panel
Posted on January 28, 2009The podcast of the AALS Section on Poverty Law panel at the 2009 AALS annual conference is now available online. The panel information is below: Privatization: Promise and Pitfall at the Intersection of Law, Markets and Poverty This session will...
Call for Papers: Journal of Law & Public Policy at the University of Florida
Posted on January 28, 2009The Journal of Law & Public Policy at the University of Florida Levin College of Law is currently accepting submissions for its poverty law issue. This issue will be published in August 2009 and will focus on cutting-edge poverty law...
Upcoming Conference: Housing and Economic Development at Brooklyn Law, March 27, 2009
Posted on January 28, 2009GETTING IT RIGHT: GOVERNMENT'S ROLE IN HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL SPARER SYMPOSIUM Friday, March 27, 2009 LOCATION: Brooklyn Law School; 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201; OVERVIEW: Historically, all levels of government have taken an active role...
National Prayer Service -- focus on poverty
Posted on January 23, 2009Though most people probably have seen Obama's inaugural speech (full text here), probably fewer saw the speech given by Rev. Sharon Watkins for the National Prayer Service the day after inauguration. It focused on poverty and the need to work...
Visiting Scholars Program at Michigan's National Poverty Center
Posted on January 23, 2009The National Poverty Center, part of the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, has an unpaid visiting scholar program that lets you work at the Center. There are 3 deadlines per year and the deadline for...
Quigley: Letter to a Law Student Interested in Social Justice
Posted on January 21, 2009Though somewhat dated (I only discovered and read it today), William P. Quigley has a brief article that should be of interest to many students, Letter to a Law Student Interested in Social Justice, 1 Depaul Journal for Social Justice...
Interest Rate Cuts Cause Legal Aid Layoffs
Posted on January 19, 2009Story Here: Erik Eckholm, "Interest Rate Drop Has Dire Results for Legal Aid," New York Times, Jan. 18, 2009. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Lewis and Clark Indigenous Economic Development Symposium Articles
Posted on January 17, 2009The Lewis and Clark Law Review just published the papers from its symposium, "Indigenous Economic Development: Sustainability, Culture, and Business": Gavin Clarkson, Wall Street Indians: Information Asymmetry and Barriers to Tribal Capital Market Access, 12 Lewis & Clark L...
Update on Yale's Rebellious Lawyering Conference, Feb. 20-22, 2009
Posted on January 15, 2009Update on Yale's Rebellious Lawyering Conference, Feb. 20-22, 2009 with speakers/panel info and registration info, available here. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
William Mitchell Law Review seeking completed articles for a Poverty Law Issue
Posted on January 15, 2009The William Mitchell Law Review is currently seeking completed papers that examine current issues and recent developments in Poverty Law. The William Mitchell Law Review is highly regarded both regionally and nationally. Our Law Review recently ranked twenty-second in citations...
New Paper: Francine Lipman on The Undocumented Immigrant Tax
Posted on January 14, 2009Francine Lipman has posted "The Undocumented Immigrant Tax" to SSRN. What is great about this essay is how strongly stated it is, a taste of which can be seen in the abstract below: "Illegals do NOT pay taxes." As a...
Domestic Tobin Tax - Tax on Financial Transactions
Posted on January 13, 2009An op-ed in the New York Times on Monday by Bob Herbert, "Where the Money Is," advocates a tax on financial transactions. Such a tax would function similarly to proposed Tobin taxes on international flows of capital (See Amy Youngblood...
Two upcoming CLE programs from the ABA Commission on Homelessness & Poverty
Posted on January 12, 2009The ABA Commission on Homelessness & Poverty is presenting "Foreclosing on the American Dream: The Housing Crisis and the Role of Lawyers and Laws in Securing Housing Justice," Friday, Feb. 13, 2009 in Boston, MA. And on Feb. 13th in...
National Network for Youth Symposium 2009: Celebrating Youth, Inspiring Leadership, Creating Change
Posted on January 12, 2009Co-sponsored by the ABA's Commission on Homelessness and Poverty, Center for Children and the Law, and Commission on Youth at Risk, the 2009 Symposium of the National Network for Youth is entitled "Celebrating Youth, Inspiring Leadership, Creating Change" and takes...
News Coverage related to the Employee Free Choice Act
Posted on January 10, 2009The Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would help unionization, is getting a lot of attention. The New York Times Editorial, "The Right to Unionize," March 6, 2007 in support gives a quick summary of the bill: The most...
New Paper: Patricia Salkin on Senior Housing Needs
Posted on January 09, 2009Patricia Salkin has posted "A Quiet Crisis in America: Meeting the Affordable Housing Needs of the Invisible Low-Income Healthy Seniors" to SSRN. The abstract is below: With the rapid increase in the senior population due to the aging of the...
Unemployment at 7.2%
Posted on January 09, 2009The percent of Americans unemployed increased for the 12th consecutive month, with more jobs lost in the year than in any year since 1945, or adjusted for population growth since 1982. The NY Times story is: Louise Uchitelle, "Unemployment Hits...
Article on Appalachian town (Huntington, WV) with poorest health
Posted on January 07, 2009According to a (dated) Huntington Herald-Dispatch article from Nov. 2008, "Appalachian town shrugs at poorest health rating," Huntington, WV is the town with the poorest health, driven by obesity problems. A student who forwarded the article noted that she saw...
Alternative Christmas/Holiday Presents
Posted on December 23, 2008It is that time again and if you haven't already done your holiday shopping or want to give generally here are some options that I have been emailed about in the last two weeks that I thought might be of...
NYTimes Nicholas D. Kristof, Business Defeating Poverty
Posted on December 22, 2008New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof has a newish blog post Business Defeating Poverty Dec. 9, 2008, whose focus is described by the title. The actual post is quite short, but the comments afterward include citations to quite a...
New Paper: Susan Carle on Class in Torts and Employment Law
Posted on December 20, 2008My colleague Susan Carle has posted a new essay onto SSRN: Short Notes on Teaching About the Micro-Politics of Class, with Examples from Torts and Employment Law Casebooks, forthcoming in the Buffalo Law Review. The abstract is below: This short...
New Paper: Spencer Rand on Clinical Teaching and Client Self-Image
Posted on December 19, 2008Spencer Rand has posted "Creating My Client's Image: Is Case Theory Value Neutral in Public Benefits Cases?" Washington Univ. Journal of Law and Policy (2008) to SSRN. The abstract is below: Effective case theory demands that an attorney consider with...
Upcoming Conference: Indian/Poverty/Economic Justice/Community Lawyer Clinic Conference
Posted on December 19, 2008Third Annual Indian Law Clinics and Externship Programs: Symposium and Workshop, Isleta Casino & Resort, Pueblo of Isleta (located just south of Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 7-9, 2009. The conference is for ?Professors, Directors, Clinicians and Staff of Indian Law,...
New Paper: Laura Kessler on Getting Class
Posted on December 18, 2008Laura T. Kessler has posted Getting Class to SSRN. The abstract is below: Gender-based economic inequality has been a longstanding concern of feminist legal theory, particularly as it affects middle-class women. Yet much legal feminist literature remains uninterested in class...
Media coverage of The Invisible Workforce
Posted on December 17, 2008The Central Penn Business Journal is doing a special series on The Invisible Workforce, looking at ways to bridge the gap between jobless inner-city residents and employers who complain of being unable to find workers for high-skill, blue-collar jobs...
Op-Ed by the President of the Legal Service Corporation
Posted on December 17, 2008Helaine M. Barnett, President of the Legal Service Corporation, published an op-ed in the Austin American Statesman on Dec. 12, 2008, How To Deal with the Justice Gap. A related public hearing can be seen here. Here is the concluding...
SEALS 2009 Panels/Tentative Schedule
Posted on December 16, 2008The Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) annual conference is from Aug. 2-Aug. 8, 2009, at the Ritz Carlton Palm Beach, FL. The tentative schedule includes panels such as: Critical Race Theory, The School-to-Prison Pipeline, Theories of Equality, The NAACP...
22nd Annual Robert M. Cover Retreat, Feb. 27-Mar. 1, 2009
Posted on December 16, 2008SALT's Robert M. Cover Retreat (see also ereis Feb. 27-Mar. 1, 2009, at the Sargent Center in Peterborough, NH. Here is a letter from the organizer. The overview of the conference is below: Every year, public interest law students, professors,...
Call for Papers: Political Science Conference on Poverty
Posted on December 10, 2008The Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions at Emory University is hosting "Reducing Poverty: Explaining Recent State Policy Innovations and Strategies," Nov. 19-20, 2009. The call for papers seems fairly open to academics and practitioners and has a Jan...
Op-Ed on repealing the Bush tax cuts
Posted on December 08, 2008Here: Robert H. Frank, "Why Wait to Repeal Tax Cuts for the Rich?" New York Times, Dec. 5, 2008. Relatedly, Darren Hutchinson has this post on his blog, Dissenting Justice (not looking at the tax cut issue but at Obama...
Article of Interest: "Lifting Burdens: Proof, Social Justice, and Public Assistance Administrative Hearings"
Posted on December 05, 2008Article of interest: Lisa Ellen Brodoff, Lifting Burdens: Proof, Social Justice, and Public Assistance Administrative Hearings, 32 NYU Rev. L. & Soc. Change 131 (2008). This SSRN link is to an earlier draft, the final version I think is only...
Self-Promoting Post on Remittances
Posted on December 04, 2008My article, "Immigrant Remittances," has now been published by Connecticut Law Review and the final version is now on SSRN. The abstract is below: Remittances, the sending of money from immigrants back to their home countries, are the newest anti-poverty,...
Costs of Higher Education
Posted on December 03, 2008A headline from the New York Times today tells the story, "College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S." (by Tamar Levin), Dec. 3, 2008. The associated graphic is here. Relatedly, on Nov. 30, Tamar Levin's article about foreign study,...
Native American and Rural Economic Development
Posted on December 01, 2008For those interested in economic development of Indian tribes or of Indian reservations, a new article highlights the ways in which tribes and rural communities face similar economic development challenges and that both should do more to take advantage of...
Two new Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal articles of interest
Posted on December 01, 2008Two articles of interest: Jane Gravelle & Jennifer Gravelle, Taxing Poor Families: The Evolution of Treatment Under the Federal Income Tax, 7 Conn. Pub. Int. L.J. 35 (2008). Tan N. Nguyen, An Affair to Forget: Law School's Deleterious Effect on...
Media coverage of poverty in the 2008 campaign
Posted on November 25, 2008The Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity released a new report by Tom Freedman and John Bridgeland that looks at the coverage of poverty by the media 2003 to 2008. "Reaching New Heights: The Issue of Poverty in the 2008 Campaign,...
Overworked Public Defenders Rejecting New Cases
Posted on November 24, 2008Older story of interest: Erik Eckholm, "Citing Workload, Public Lawyers Reject New Cases," New York Times, Nov. 8, 2008. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Web Resource: Chicago-Kent 2008 Financial Crisis Primer
Posted on November 23, 2008A new very helpful compilation of materials on the crisis can be found at the Chicago-Kent 2008 Financial Crisis Primer webpage. -Thanks to Brian Leiter's Law School Reports for the heads up! E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Movie Recommendation: Slumdog Millionaire
Posted on November 22, 2008Though not perhaps exactly "poverty law" material, nevertheless as a movie worth checking out for its depiction of the Mumbai slums, "Slumdog Millionaire" is great! -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Workplace Flexibility and Workplace Fairness
Posted on November 21, 2008The workplace is getting some attention these days. According to Georgetown Law's Workplace Flexibility 2010 program, the definition (from the Sloan National Initiative) is: The ability to have flexibility in the scheduling of hours; The ability to have flexibility in...
Downward Mobility: The Formerly Middle Class
Posted on November 19, 2008The popular press (and to some degree academics as well) likes to focus on the middle class squeeze, see House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform page on the Middle Class Squeeze here, which when combined with the economic downturn...
New paper on Inter-Nation Equity (through Tax)
Posted on November 17, 2008Kim Brooks has posted "Inter-Nation Equity: The Development of an Important but Underappreciated International Tax Value" to SSRN. Having been impressed by a related presentation by Kim Brooks at the Valparaiso Law, Poverty, & Economic Inequality Conference, the paper seems...
American Enterprise Institute publications of interest on poverty
Posted on November 15, 2008The American Enterprise Institute has two newer books that might be of interest, even if their stance is not that of most of the reports posted (the political perspective of the AEI can be found here): 1. Christian Broda &...
Report of interest: Towards a Shared Recovery
Posted on November 11, 2008Report: Towards Shared Recovery, by the Coalition on Human Needs and ActNow Emergency Campaign for America's Priorities, presents an economic package which would both boost the economy and help those most in need. The press release is here and the...
Return to Keynesian Economics and Bottom-Up Bailout?
Posted on November 10, 2008What the Obama post-victory economic plan will be is not known at this moment (the campaign version is here), but could it mean a return to Keynesian economics? Or to the New Deal--or the New New Deal (The Nation recently...
Worth Reading: Krugman on Obama and Progressive Agenda (plus editorial on shelters)
Posted on November 08, 2008See Paul Krugman (winner of the Nobel prize), "The Obama Agenda," New York Times, Nov. 7, 2008. Another editorial of note (thanks to Stephanie Humphries): Editorial, "Good Neighbors," New York Times, Nov. 7, 2008 (noting cost savings for supportive apartments...
Good blog posting with audio links on the financial crisis
Posted on November 07, 2008Posted by William Henderson on the Empirical Legal Studies Blog... -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Two new articles of interest posted to SSRN
Posted on November 06, 2008From SSRN Economic Inequality and Law Abstracts: William E. Forbath, The Politics of Race, Rights and Needs -- And the Perils of a Democratic Victory in Post-Welfare America, 20 Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 195 (2008). Abstract below: Welfare...
'08 Mayors' Action Forum on Poverty Report
Posted on November 05, 2008The United States Conference of Mayors' Sep. 2008 Report, "National Action Agenda on Poverty for the Next President of the United States" can be found here. It is very short but interesting. Thanks go to Bob Giloth, who blogged about...
Overview of the economy and the election thanks to "Good"
Posted on November 04, 2008Readers of this blog, VOTE. Please. I found a link from Starbucks of all places to "Good" which has a overview of election issues and of the economy (from the goodsheet) that might be of interest. See also the New...
Stanford Press series on Social Inequality
Posted on November 04, 2008Stanford University Press has a book series on "Social Inequality" of interest. The series includes among others: Wei-hsin Yu, Gendered Trajectories: Women, Work, and Social Change in Japan and Taiwan (March 2009) Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China (Deborah...
Law and Society 2009 Denver
Posted on November 01, 2008The annual Law and Society conference will be in Denver, May 28-May 31, 2009. The call for papers and panels deadline is Dec. 8, 2008. More information can be found here. The theme this year is "Law, Power, and Inequality...
Call For Newsletter Submissions from Poverty Law Professors
Posted on October 30, 2008If you are on the poverty law professor listserv, you have already seen this, but if not... In the interest of sharing what we are doing individually and in the hopes that doing so will inspire connections that might not...
New Blog and New Book: "Philanthrocapitalism"
Posted on October 29, 2008Bob Giloth, the Director of the Family Economic Success Initiative at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, has a new blog, www.bobgiloth.com, available here. A recent post of interest for example calls attention to "Philanthrocapitalism," and the new book by Matthew...
Thoughts on Moments of Change
Posted on October 29, 2008This is a non-partisan blog, but that having been said, I think that come Wednesday the poverty law community might be in a situation somewhat analogous to the change in administration period between Bush Sr. and Clinton. A wonderful article...
Conference Announcement: Urban Child Symposium at Univ. of Baltimore
Posted on October 26, 2008The University of Baltimore School of Law's Center for Families, Children and the Courts' first Urban Child symposium, "Solving the Drop-Out Crisis: Getting the Other Half to Attend and Achieve," April 2, 2009. From the website: "Panelists will focus on...
ABA Commission on Homelessness and Poverty
Posted on October 23, 2008Older book that I came across today: ABA Commission on Homelessness and Poverty's book, Lawyers Working to End Homelessness (2006). The table of contents is here, bios of contributors are here, and an overview is below: Lawyers Working to End...
NPR Coverage of redefining poverty and Poll results
Posted on October 21, 2008National Public Radio's coverage of poverty has two newer things of note: The NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School Poll Results on Poverty in America are here. "Redefining poverty in the U.S." Oct. 17, 2008. Summary below: The U.S. definition of poverty is more...
Pro Bono is Anti-Social!
Posted on October 19, 2008At least according to Judge Dennis Jacobs, Chief Judge of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. See blog posting on clinicians with not enough to do here. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers 2008
Posted on October 19, 2008The Institute for Research on Poverty at Wisconsin has a lot of helpful resources, including recent discussion papers that were presented at the IRP Conference "Changing Poverty," May 29-30, 2008. Poverty Levels and Trends in Comparative Perspective, by Daniel R...
Poverty in America & Report on Credit Impact from Wall St to Main St-- Summary from Joint Economic Committee of Congress
Posted on October 17, 2008The Joint Economic Committee of Congress puts out occasional, brief, fact sheets and reports. Two recent ones of note that present how Congress sees these issues are: Poverty in America (Aug. 26, 2008) From Wall Street to Main Street: Understanding...
Cool graphic on the components of inflation
Posted on October 16, 2008The New York Times has a somewhat dated multimedia graphic showing the components of the Consumer Price Index that is pretty interesting and good for in-class explanations. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Focus on Working Class
Posted on October 15, 2008A quick report, Working Hard, Still Falling Short, was just released by the Working Poor Families Project. Relatedly, the upcoming New York Times Sunday Magazine features the story, Matt Bai, "Working for the Working Class Vote," Oct. 15, 2008. -E.R....
Congratulations to Paul Krugman
Posted on October 14, 2008Given the number of times I have linked to one of Krugman's op-eds, it seems worth noting that Krugman just won a Nobel Prize in Economics! =) E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Executive Compensation and the Financial Crisis
Posted on October 13, 2008In the wake of the financial crisis, or rather in the midst of the current crisis, there are a number of resources from various outlets on executive pay. Below are some, but if you have others, let me know and...
Op-Ed of Interest: "The Class War Before Palin"
Posted on October 11, 2008David Brooks has an interesting op-ed, "The Class War Before Palin," New York Times, Oct. 10, 2008. The majority is about the anti-elite aspects of Republican Party rhetoric, exemplified by Sarah Palin, but ends by noting that the Republican Party...
Article of Interest: "Lifting the Floor: Sex, Class and Education"
Posted on October 08, 2008The paper is: Naomi Cahn & June Carbone, Lifting the Floor: Sex, Class and Education, forthcoming in U. Balt. Forum 2009 (available from SSRN). The abstract is below: This paper was written for a conference on third wave feminism. Third...
Property article critiquing excessive reliance on law and economics
Posted on October 06, 2008A recent property article by Eduardo M. Peñalver entitled "Land Virtues" has been posted to SSRN. The paper's focus is property law, but I think says a lot to those with a poverty/property focus. The abstract is below: This article...
Interesting Article on Post-Katrina New Orleans and the Poor
Posted on October 04, 2008Judith Browne-Dianis & Anita Sinha, Exiling the Poor: The Clash of Redevelopment and Fair-Housing in Post-Katrina New Orleans, 51 How. L.J. 481 (2008). Unfortunately, only available on Lexis & Westlaw. Related articles that are available online: Judith Browne-Dianis, "Who Exiled...
Article of Interest: The Vast Injustice Perpetuated by State and Local Tax Policy
Posted on October 03, 2008Article of interest: Susan Pace Hamill, "The Vast Injustice Perpetuated by State and Local Tax Policy," 37 Hofstra L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2008), on SSRN. The abstract is below: State and local tax policy is one of the most important...
Critical Race Theory Conference at Iowa
Posted on October 01, 2008The University of Iowa College of Law is hosting: CRT 20: Honoring Our Past, Charting Our Future. The conference schedule available here includes talks/speeches by many of the major players in Critical Race Theory, April 2-4, 2009. An email forward...
Blog worth checking out: Dissenting Justice
Posted on September 28, 2008Darren Hutchinson, a colleague of mine at AU, has a new blog worth bookmarking (from the length of his posts you can already tell he is busy with it!): Dissenting Justice. Not surprisingly, the focus right now is on the...
New Poverty Article: Tara Melish on New Governance and War on Sources of Poverty
Posted on September 26, 2008Tara J. Melish has uploaded a new paper, "Maximum Feasible Participation of the Poor: New Governance, New Accountability, and a 21st Century War on the Sources of Poverty," to SSRN. The abstract is below: In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson...
For Fun: Wordle of Poverty Law Prof Blog
Posted on September 25, 2008Courtesy of Wordle.net and procrastination from class prep: -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Slides on Financial Bailout
Posted on September 25, 2008Perhaps of use in your class: For my own poverty class I put together a Powerpoint of slides connected to the Bailout, drawing heavily from The Big Picture Blog postings and with links to some multimedia (Stewart/Colbert, etc). Note, the...
Recent proposal to sterilize the poor
Posted on September 25, 2008From the "enlightened" town of Metairie, LA, a suburb of New Orleans that was both home turf of the late Sheriff Harry Lee (who at one point promised his constituents: "If there are some young blacks driving a car late...
New Book: The Gloves-Off Economy: Workplace Standards at the Bottom of America's Labor Market
Posted on September 24, 2008A new book, The Gloves-Off Economy: Workplace Standards at the Bottom of America's Labor Market, has just been published by Cornell University Press (Amazon link here). The summary from the publisher is below: Across the United States, increasing numbers of...
Call to focus on Africa's bottom billion
Posted on September 22, 2008Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (2007), has a new op-ed pointing out problems in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and arguing that the focus should...
Symposium: The Roberts Court and Equal Protection: Gender, Race, and Class
Posted on September 22, 2008The South Carolina Law Review's Summer 2008 symposium is on "The Roberts Court and Equal Protection: Gender, Race, and Class." The articles in the issue are: GENDER Deborah L. Brake, What Counts as "Discrimination" in Ledbetter and the Implications for...
Scalia as Lord Vodemort?: J.K. Rowlings acts on concern for the poor
Posted on September 20, 2008J.K. Rowlings, Harry Potter author, recently gave $1.8 billion to the Labour party and according to an AP story, accused "rival Conservatives of discriminating against poor parents." In light of his recent statements, who knows what Scalia would say about...
New York City settles homeless lawsuit
Posted on September 18, 2008NYC settled a suit from 1983 on the rights of homeless people: Sewell Chan, "City Settles Lawsuit Over Homeless Families," New York Times (Sept. 17, 2008). -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Entertainment: Scalia is not a fan
Posted on September 17, 2008I am not sure how to categorize this but Scalia is not a fan of poverty law classes... on the positive side perhaps ironically his lack of poverty law background is itself an indication of how important the class is....
Two Interesting Rutgers L. J. Articles on CEO pay and de Soto
Posted on September 16, 2008The Rutgers Law Journal has posted to interesting articles to its main page (the articles are not yet available on Lexis, but the PDF is on the Journal's page). Rashmi Dyal-Chand wrote a great article looking critically at the ideas...
New Issue of Pathways: "Can We Fight Poverty During Economic Downturns?"
Posted on September 11, 2008A new issue of Pathways, from the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, is now online. The Summer 2008 issue is entitled "Can we Fight Poverty During Economic Downturns?" and features articles by Frank F. Furstenberg, Alan...
Article: Welfare Reform and Children's Short-Run Attainments
Posted on September 11, 2008A study of children's attainment and welfare reform that might be of interest is: Hau Chyi & Orgul D. Ozturk, "Welfare Reform and Children's Short-Run Attainments," SSRN. The abstract is below: Using PIAT Math test score as a measure of...
Empasize universal coverage or health care cost reductions?
Posted on September 10, 2008Robert J. Samuelson argues that rather than focusing on universal coverage candidates should focus on reducing costs. His op-ed also notes that near equality of heath care spending across income quintiles. The article is: Robert J. Samuelson, "Health Care Realism,"...
Possible Legislation for a New Poverty Measure
Posted on September 03, 2008More reporting on the move for a new measure... The New York Times coverage is here: Rachel L. Swarns, "Bipartisan Calls for New Federal Poverty Measure," New York Times, Sep. 1, 2008. -Thanks to Stephanie Humphries for the heads up....
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Year Long Series on the Working Poor
Posted on September 03, 2008The Fort Worth Star-Telegram did a year long series in 2007 entitled "Working Poor" that profiles four families and the website includes videos of the families talking about their experiences as well as stories focusing on a range of issues....
Three Interesting Pieces in the New York Times
Posted on September 02, 2008Here they are: Heather Timmons, "Vogue's Fashion Photos Spark Debate in India," New York Times, Aug. 31, 2008 (story on photos of unidentified poor people modeling very expensive clothing items) [incidentally, the World Bank's own Voices of the Poor from...
Profile: Clare Pastore
Posted on August 31, 2008Clare Pastore teaches courses including Civil Procedure, Professional Responsibility, Poverty Law, Administrative Law, and the Access to Justice practicum, while continuing to practice as a leading member of the California public interest community. She has received frequent state and national...
Ellickson on Vouchers vs. Mixed Income Development
Posted on August 27, 2008Robert C. Ellickson has posted "The Mediocrity of Government Subsidies to Mixed-Income Housing Projects" to SSRN. This is sure to be a must read for those interested in housing and poverty. The abstract is below: Since the 1970s a new...
Bill Gates on Creative Capitalism to help the Global Poor
Posted on August 24, 2008Recently Time Magazine published an article written by Bill Gates on harnessing the power to capitalism to help those who have been "left out" of the benefits of capitalism. Part celebration of capitalism, part call to action, the article is...
Call for Book Reviews: Women and the Law
Posted on August 23, 2008Call for Book Reviews: Women and the Law Proposals Due September 25, 2008 The editors of Pace Law Review invite proposals from scholars, researchers, practitioners and professionals for contributions to a special book review issue to be published in Winter...
Who are rich? Krugman in connection with the political question
Posted on August 22, 2008McCain's "disconnect" (according to Moveon.org emails) from most Americans was arguably on display when he, caught off guard by a question from Pastor Rick Warren, said that someone was rich when they had an income of "$5 million." Video here....
Student debt related podcast: interview of Heather Jarvis, Equal Justice Works
Posted on August 22, 2008Meredith R. Miller, a Touro Law professor, runs The Slippery Slope, www.theslipperyslope.com, a "legal variety podcast," and she recently posted a podcast of her conversation with Heather Jarvis of Equal Justice Works (author of Financing the Future: Responses to the...
Profile: E. Carol Spruill
Posted on August 20, 2008E.Carol Spruill is Associate Dean for Public Interest and Pro Bono and a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law School. She has taught a seminar/clinic on Poverty Law every year since 1993. She began work at Duke Law School in...
Catholic Social Thought, the Poor, and Law Schools
Posted on August 19, 2008A couple of recent publications focus on the relationship between Catholic -- specifically Jesuit -- social thought, work on behalf of the poor, and law schools. Personally, in one of my early poverty law classes I do go into some...
Profile: Dan Hatcher
Posted on August 18, 2008Prior to joining the faculty in 2004, Professor Hatcher was in a statewide position with the Maryland Legal Aid Bureau, serving as the assistant director of advocacy for public benefits and economic stability. He previously worked as a staff attorney...
Call for Papers: Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities
Posted on August 16, 2008The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is accepting proposals for panels and papers until Oct. 15, 2008 for their annual conference, meeting in 2009 at Suffolk Univ. Law School in Boston, Apr. 3-4, 2009. The...
Profile: Jeffrey Selbin
Posted on August 15, 2008Jeff Selbin was appointed clinical professor in 2006 and is faculty director of the East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC), Boalt Hall's community-based poverty law clinic. He founded EBCLC's HIV/AIDS Law Project in 1990 as a Skadden Fellow, and served...
Interesting Article on Disadvantages of an Elite Education
Posted on August 13, 2008Interesting (on class/education divisions and educational purpose): William Deresiewicz, "The Disadvantages of an Elite Education: Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers," American Spectator (Summer 2008) The article also has some...
For those who teach poverty law
Posted on August 07, 2008I would like to publish profiles of those who teach poverty law so that it will be easier to know who is in the field and also so we can learn a little about each person. With that in mind,...
Washington Post Series: "Hardest Hit: Hurt and Hope Among Low Wage Workers"
Posted on August 04, 2008The Washington Post today published Michael A. Fletcher & Jon Cohen, "Hovering Above Poverty, Grasping for Middle Class" (Aug. 3, 2008), an article detailing the results of a survey (full report here) conducted by the Washington Post, the Henry J....
Another (International) form of patient dumping of those who cannot afford care
Posted on August 04, 2008New York Times story and slideshow on international patient dumping: Deborah Sontag, "Immigrants Facing Deportation by U.S. Hospitals," N.Y. Times, Aug. 3, 2008; slideshow here. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Call for Papers: Property Ownership and Economic Stability: A Necessary Relationship?
Posted on August 01, 2008The Saint Louis University Public Law Review invites abstracts of articles relating to its Spring 2009 symposium theme: Property Ownership and Economic Stability: A Necessary Relationship? The symposium, which will be held on Friday, February 27, 2009, will consist of...
Of interest to those attending AALS this year: Healthcare and the Poor
Posted on July 30, 2008The AALS Section on Socio-Economics is providing a concurrent session in this year's Annual Meeting Program, entitled "Healthcare and Poor and Working People." Here are the participants: Arthur La France - Moderator: (Lewis and Clark) Kenneth Gattner (Oregon Health and...
Articles on Workforce Housing and Government Supported Creative Finance Development
Posted on July 29, 2008The Urban Lawyer just published two articles of interest, though I have not found the public access so you will have to use Lexis or Westlaw, the abstracts from the Urban Lawyer website are below: Alan Woolever, Tax Increment Financing,...
William Mitchell Law Review Call for Papers: Poverty Law
Posted on July 28, 2008The William Mitchell Law Review is proud to dedicate its third issue to Poverty Law in its upcoming Volume 35 (spring 2009). We are currently seeking papers that examine current issues and recent developments in this important area of law....
N.Y. Times Op-Ed on closing down HUD
Posted on July 28, 2008Op-Ed of interest (the title gives a pretty good summary): Sudhir Venkatesh, "To Fight Poverty, Tear Down HUD," NYTimes, July 25, 2008. -Thanks to Jeff Selbin for the heads up! E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Grant Opportunity for Research Related to Aging
Posted on July 23, 2008The Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging has a Request for Proposals and Application for academics interested in studying aging, with the objectives given below: The objectives of the grants are to further research and scholarship about new or...
Advice on Entering the Law Teaching Market/AALS
Posted on July 18, 2008A number of friends have recently emailed seeking advice on entering the law teaching market, inspired by the upcoming deadline to make the first AALS deadline (this FAR deadline is important), and with that in mind I have complied here...
Poverty Law Syllabi
Posted on July 17, 2008I am moving this to the front because people are again starting to think about this. Hopefully soon I will post newer versions and more syllabi. If you would like to share yours, email me either the syllabus or a...
Another Harvard Law Review Note of Interest: on the Myth of Meritocracy
Posted on July 16, 2008The Harvard Law Review editorial board is showing that it is a glutton for punishment from the right, which is perhaps still salivating over the earlier Harvard Note, Never Again Should a People Starve in a World of Plenty. Some...
House Committee on Ways and Means to hold Hearing on Establishing a Modern Poverty Measure
Posted on July 14, 2008The Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives is holding a hearing this Thursday, July 17th, on "Establishing a Modern Poverty Measure." Submissions for the record can be uploaded here. This hearing is similar to one that...
Adult Education and Workforce Skills Report
Posted on July 09, 2008From the National Commission on Adult Literacy, and courtesy of an announcement on UNC's Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity homepage: REACH HIGHER AMERICA, An economy that thrives in the new global environment! A workforce educated for jobs that pay...
Interesting Op-Ed by Stephen L. Carter
Posted on July 08, 2008With an Aspen, Colorado tagline, Stephen L. Carter (best selling author and Yale professor) has an interesting new op-ed that touches on affirmative action, the divide between poor and better off African-Americans, marriage policy, school vouchers, etc...
Conference: Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference 2008 - "Education and the Economy"
Posted on July 08, 2008The schedule for the Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference 2008, Sept. 12-13, 2008 at Boston University School of Law (hosted also by St. John's Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development) has been posted online...
New York Times Editorial on the Food Crisis: Man-Made Hunger
Posted on July 06, 2008Today's editorial from the New York Times is worth reading: Editorial Board, "Man-Made Hunger," NYTimes, July 6, 2008. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Light-Hearted Post: Dogs over Indigent
Posted on July 02, 2008From the New York Times: "The two people who described the statement said Mrs. Helmsley signed it in 2003 to establish goals for the multibillion-dollar trust that would disburse assets after her death. The first goal was to help indigent...
Principle or Campaign Driven Support of Faith-Based Delivery of Social Services?
Posted on July 02, 2008Barack Obama announced yesterday that he wants to continue Bush's Faith-Based Initiative program and, according to a New York Times story here, he may consider "elevating the director of his Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships to a cabinet-level post...
Unequal America: Cover of Harvard Alumni Magazine
Posted on June 30, 2008Although it, naturally enough, contains a mainly citations to Harvard professors, the cover story of the Harvard alumni magazine has a brief eight page story that pretty quickly covers many of the issues of inequality in the U.S. The story...
News: Rent support to avoid student turnover
Posted on June 24, 2008The N.Y. Times today has a story on rental subsidies being paid to parents to help reduce student turnover and education disruption. Erik Eckholm, "To Avoid Student Turnover, Parents Get Rent Help," NYTimes, June 24, 2008. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Call for Papers: The Global Repercussions of the U.S. Subprime Mortgage Meltdown
Posted on June 24, 2008Courtesy of the Legal Scholarship Blog: The Journal of Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems is hosting a symposium on "Financial Markets and Systemic Risk: The Global Repercussions of the U.S. Subprime Mortgage Meltdown," on Feb. 20, 2009, with papers published...
National Conference on Homeless Youth and the Law
Posted on June 20, 2008From the Legal Scholarship Blog: The University of Washington School of Law, the ABA Commission on Homelessness and Poverty, the National Network for Youth, and with the support of Casey Family Programs hosted the National Conference on Homeless Youth and...
Crime and Section 8 Placements from Atlantic Monthly
Posted on June 20, 2008This month's Atlantic Monthly features a potentially troubling story worth checking out. Hanna Rosin, "American Murder Mystery," Atlantic Monthly, July/Aug 2008. Note, clicking through the pages of the story at the bottom of the first webpage reveals more photos and...
Report of Interest: Making the Law Work for Everyone
Posted on June 19, 2008The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor of the UNDP released its final report, "Making the Law Work for Everyone." The Economist has a brief article about the report here and a video of the launch of the report...
Tax law review article: Democracy and Opportunity
Posted on June 16, 2008A new tax article published of interest: James R. Repetti, Democracy and Opportunity: A New Paradigm in Tax Equity, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 1129 (2008). Also on SSRN here. Abstract below: Although there is consensus about the need for equity,...
For those who do public-interest transactional work in the academy
Posted on June 16, 2008TO: Faculty Members interested in Transactional Law FROM: Planning Committee on 2009 AALS Conference on Transaction Law Lisa Fairfax, University of Maryland, Chair Victor Fleischer, University of Illinois Peter Pitegoff, University of Maine D. Gordon Smith, Brigham Young University Alfred...
AALS Section on Poverty Law Panel Announcement
Posted on June 12, 2008The AALS Section on Poverty Law has announced the details of the coming AALS panel. Section on Poverty Law Program ?Privatization: Promise and Pitfall at the Intersection of Law, Markets and Poverty? Friday, January 9, 2009, 3:30-5:15 pm; A meeting...
News: Colorado has Largest Rise in Child Poverty
Posted on June 12, 2008According to the Colorado Children's Campaign (their report is here), and reported on in the New York Times Today, "Colorado experienced the nation's largest rate of growth in impoverished children from 2000-2006" (article here with graphic of shifts in poverty...
Brookings Report Urges Raising EITC
Posted on June 10, 2008A new Brookings Report urges increases to the EITC, and on Friday there will be a briefing on the report. The report is: Alan Berube, David Park, Elizabeth Kneebone, Metro Raise: Boosting the Earned Income Tax Credit to Help Metropolitan...
Privatopia in India
Posted on June 09, 2008The New York Times today published a story on privatopian communities (borrowing from Evan McKenzie) in India: Somini Sengupta, "Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servant's Slums)," NYTimes, June 9, 2008. Associated slideshow here. -E.R. erosser@wcl...
News Coverage: Gas Prices in Rural Areas
Posted on June 09, 2008The New York Times published a story of interest: Clifford Krauss, "Rural U.S. Takes Worst Hit as Gas Tops $4 Average," NYTimes, June 9, 2008. Linked to the story is an interactive graphic on the varying impact of gas prices...
Paper worth reading: Privatization, Policy Paralysis, and the Poor
Posted on June 07, 2008David A. Super has a new paper worth checking out: David A. Super, Privatization, Policy Paralysis, and the Poor, 96 Calif. L. Rev. 393 (2008). So far I have been unable to find an online version other than through Lexis...
Article of Interest (and conference announcement): Poverty and Violent Conflict
Posted on June 06, 2008The Households in Conflict Network's 4th Annual Workshop is being held at Yale College, Dec. 5-6, 2008. The call for papers is here. From the HiCN website: Violent conflicts are a substantial barrier to economic development. Almost one third of...
More news coverage of global food crisis
Posted on June 06, 2008The following links and stories may be of interest to those concerned or interested in the global food crisis: Amartya Sen, "Op-Ed: The Rich Get Hungrier," New York Times, May 28, 2008 [very good op-ed from Nobel Prize winner]. World...
Reviving a Paper Mill - Worker Stakeholders
Posted on June 05, 2008The New York Times today covered the revival of a paper mill, in a story that shows the value of non-owner stakeholders: Fernanda Santos, "Revived Paper Mill Brings a Town Back With It," NY Times June 5, 2008; there is...
Fuel Poverty: UK and the US
Posted on June 03, 2008A non-profit, Economic Opportunity Studies, has released a (short) report delineating the difference between the view on fuel poverty within the US and the UK. The UK, it should be noted, has stated that fuel poverty occurs when a home...
New York Times Editorial on Immigration
Posted on June 03, 2008The New York Times published a strong editorial, "The Great Immigration Panic," June 3, 2008 that calls attention to how history will judge our current zenophobia. It is worth reading even though more explicitly tied to the ImmigrationProf Blog. -[In...
Millions unable to access HIV/AIDS Medication
Posted on June 03, 2008The World Health Organization, UNAids, and Unicef have stated that they are two years behind on their access target of placing 3 million people on antiretroviral therapy (ART). The main reason behind the slow movement of these agencies is attributed....
Jack Kemp and George Mitchell on Poverty in the Spotlight
Posted on June 02, 2008Of interest: Jack Kemp & George Mitchell, "Poverty Has Returned to the Public Agenda," Spotlight on Poverty. Note that if you go to the link you will also find number of other op-eds on poverty from the Spotlight on Poverty...
Gentrification in Portland, Oregon: "... upper-middle-class progressivism ..."
Posted on May 29, 2008The New York Times published a story on gentrification in Portand, Oregon: William Yardley, "Racial Shift in Progressive City Spurs Talks," NY Times, May 29, 2008. with an associated slide show. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Critical Perspectives on Our Times
Posted on May 27, 2008Two recent (and brief) Hofstra Law Review articles take up some of the challenges of our times -- inequality chief among them -- from a critical perspective and they are both worth reading: Mari Matsuda, The Flood: Political Economy and...
Harvard Law Review Note: Never Again Should A People Starve in A World of Plenty
Posted on May 20, 2008A new Harvard Law Review Note of interest: Never Again Should A People Starve in A World of Plenty, 121 Harv. L. Rev. 1886 (2008). -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Article: The Internationalization of Public Interest Law
Posted on May 20, 2008An article of interest that places great weight on immigration to explain a change in public interest law... Scott L. Cummings, The Internationalization of Public Interest Law, 57 Duke L.J. 891 (2008). Abstract below: This Article is an account of...
Article of Interest: Child Support Harming Children
Posted on May 18, 2008A paper that got mailed to me may be of general interest: Daniel L. Hatcher, Child Support Harming Children: Subordinating the Best Interests of Children to the Fiscal Interests of the State, 42 Wake Forest L. Rev. 1029 (2007) [it...
Great Corbert Report interview of Grover Norquist
Posted on May 15, 2008Last night, Monday, May 14, 2008, Stephen Colbert interviewed Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform on his show. For those addicted to the show, the interview stands out for its particularly harsh questions; check it out here (I found...
Labor and Employment Law & Law and Society Conferences
Posted on May 13, 2008Two Call for Papers from the Legal Scholarship Blog: 3rd Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor & Employment Law, San Diego Oct 23-25, 2008, Call for papers deadline July 31, 2008. Midwest Law and Society Retreat, Univ. of Wisconsin,...
Paper of interest: Levy & Temin on Inequality and Institutions in 20th Century America
Posted on May 13, 2008This is dated, but I just came across it: Frank Levy & Peter Temin, "Inequality and Institutions in 20th Century America," MIT Dept. of Econ. Working Paper No. 07-17 (June 27, 2007). The New America Foundation has an audio file...
State Welfare Efforts
Posted on May 12, 2008An article of interest in the New York Times today: Rachel L. Swarns, "State Programs Add Safety Net for the Poorest," NYTimes, May 12, 2008. The article also has a graphic presenting assistance after welfare programs across the U.S. -E.R....
End of the Semester Blues - a quick link
Posted on May 09, 2008Academic Aside: If you are in the midst of either taking exams, or grading exams, it is worth checking out this old post from Daniel J. Solove on Concurring Opinions. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
New Paper: Welfare Reform in a Global Economy
Posted on May 07, 2008Steven D. Schwinn has posted "Welfare Reform in a Global Economy" (J. of Gender, Race & Justice Vol. 11, No. 2, 2008) to SSRN. Below is the abstract: The federal government's welfare reform efforts have two defining characteristics: first, welfare...
Global Food Crisis
Posted on May 06, 2008The "globe's worst food crisis in a generation" is occurring right now and the Washington Post today published a good introduction to the crisis. Anthony Faiola, "The New Economics of Hunger," Washington Post, April 27, 2008. A photo gallery is...
The Balance Sheet of Low-Income Households
Posted on May 06, 2008How poor or not poor are low-income households. Two divergent perspectives on what the poor own and what it means can be found in: Adam Carasso & Signe-Mary McKernan, "The Balance Sheet of Low-Income Households: What We Know About Their...
Children's Budget 2008
Posted on May 02, 2008First Focus: Making Children and Families the Priority, a research/lobbying organization, has finished a report that looks at the amount the U.S. spends on children. "Children's Budget 2008" does a couple of helpful things: it breaks down the different programs...
Frank I. Michelman on Socioeconomic Rights in Constitutional Law
Posted on May 02, 2008Though this blog has not spent time highlighting socioeconomic rights papers, Frank I. Michelman recently presented a draft of a theoretical, yet approachable, piece: "Socioeconomic Rights in constitutional law: explaining America away." The abstract is below: The apparent omission of...
Conference Announcement: Labor History
Posted on May 02, 2008The Pacific Northwest Labour History Association and the Labor & Working Class History Association are sponsoring a conference entitled Indigenous, Immigrant, Migrant Labour & Globalization, June 6-8, 2008 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The call for papers deadline has passed...
Global Food Crisis
Posted on April 27, 2008The "globe's worst food crisis in a generation" is occurring right now and the Washington Post today published a good introduction to the crisis. Anthony Faiola, "The New Economics of Hunger," Washington Post, April 27, 2008. A photo gallery is...
Articles of Interest on Big Box Stores and Wages
Posted on April 25, 2008I just came across an article of interest, though it is only available through Lexis or Westlaw: Christine Niemczyk, Comment: Boxing Out Big Box Retailers: The Legal and Social Impact of Big Box Living Wage Legislation, 40 J. Marshall L....
Land Assembly Districts
Posted on April 22, 2008For those interested in the relationship between vulnerable communities and state use of eminent domain, a new article perhaps is of interest: Michael Heller & Rick Hills, Land Assembly Districts, 121 Harv. L. Rev. 1465 (2008). Abstract: Eminent domain for...
Congressional Research Services on Child Welfare Issues in the 110th Congress
Posted on April 22, 2008For those who don't know... Congressional Research Service is the public think tank of the nation, providing reports to members of Congress on current political issues. For more on CRS, click here. Open CRS provides access to CRS reports that...
Judge Robert C. Coates on Homelessness and the Judiciary
Posted on April 20, 2008The University of San Francisco Law Review recently published an article by Robert C. Coates, a San Diego Superior Court Judge, of interest. Robert C. Coates, Ending Chronic Homelessness in America's Major Cities--The Justice Systems' Duty, 42 U. S.F...
From the Editors of the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy
Posted on April 20, 2008Dear Professor or Practitioner, On behalf of the Editorial Board, I would like to invite you to submit an article to be considered for publication in Volume 16 of the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy (GJPLP). The GJPLP...
Northeast People of Color Conference Call for Papers
Posted on April 19, 2008This year's Northeast People of Color Conference will be held September 12-14, 2008 at Boston University School of Law, and there's still time to sign up either to present a work in progress or to comment on a work in...
Action on the state level to reduce poverty - CLASP report
Posted on April 18, 2008The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), as well as the foundation-led initiative, Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, have a new report that focuses on important, and under-recognized efforts a dozen states have made to reduce poverty and lift...
Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being (Happiness)
Posted on April 17, 2008In a recent paper two UPenn scholars challenge the idea that above a level that meets basic needs relative income determines happiness much more than absolute income, a theory originally put forward by Richard Easterlin in 1974. The paper is:...
Conference: Poverty alleviation & environmental protection Nov. 10-15, 2008 Mexico City
Posted on April 16, 2008From the Legal Scholarship Blog The Sixth Annual Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law will focus on Poverty Alleviation and Environmental Protection. It will be hosted by the Metropolitan Autonomous University?Azcapotzalco, Mexico City, Nov...
Aboriginal Economic Development Summit at University of Toronto May 1, 2008
Posted on April 16, 2008The University of Toronto Faculty of Law is hosting "A Summit on Aboriginal Economic Development: Developing Aboriginal Economies" on May 1, 2008. The Summit features among many others Paul Martin (former Prime Minister of Canada) and Stephen Cornell (co-director of...
Paper to check out on Absentee Landlords and Encouragement of Homeownership for Blighted Areas
Posted on April 15, 2008Jorge Elorza has posted Absentee Landlords, Rent Control, and Healthy Gentrification: A Policy Proposal to De-Concentrate the Poor in Urban America , 17 Cornell J. L. & Pub. Pol'y 1 (2007), to SSRN. The abstract is below: Empirical data overwhelmingly...
New York Times on Cellphones and Poverty
Posted on April 14, 2008The New York Times has an interesting article focusing on human-centered design and cellphones/poverty worth checking out: Sara Corbett, "Can The Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?" (Apr. 13, 2008). Another article perhaps worth reading is Christine Haughney & Eric Konigsberg,...
TANF Work Requirements
Posted on April 12, 2008An Op-Ed by Noah Zatz in today's (Apr. 12, 2008) Washington Post, "A War on Community Service," criticizes limitations on TANF eligible community service imposed recently by the Bush Administration. Zatz looks critically at HHS' recently issued final regulations defining...
Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal's 2008 Symposium: Confronting Hidden Borders: Immigration and Uniting Communities of Color
Posted on April 12, 2008Thursday April 17, 2008 UC Hastings College of Law's Race & Poverty Law Journal hosts its 2008 Symposium: Confronting Hidden Borders: Immigration and Uniting Communities of Color. It features Eva Paterson (President and Founder of the Equal Justice Society), Lucas...
Conferences around the world perhaps of Interest
Posted on April 08, 2008As you think about travel plans for the summer/fall, here are some conferences related to poverty taking place... (1) The University of Glasgow is hosting "Critical Legal Strategies" (one of the major themes is "the Class Problematic in Legal Studies")...
Clinton Proposes "Poverty Czar"
Posted on April 07, 2008Hillary Clinton announced that as President she would create a "Poverty Czar." The story is covered by a N.Y. Times article, a Boston.com post, and the full speech can be found here from the Clinton website. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Grading Members of Congress on their votes related to Poverty
Posted on April 03, 2008The Shriver Center has published a report that grades U.S. Representatives and Senators for their votes in 2007 connected to policies related to poverty. The report is: 2007 Poverty Scorecard: Rating Members of Congress. According to the press release, "Members...
Northwestern Symposium "Ten Years After Welfare Reform: Making Work Pay" Apr. 4, 2008
Posted on March 29, 2008Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy Second Annual Symposium Friday, April 4, 2008 Northwestern University School of Law 375 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago IL Ten Years After Welfare Reform: Making Work Pay We are excited to announce our Spring...
Conference: Debtor World, Univ. of Illinois, May 2-3, 2008
Posted on March 26, 2008The University of Illinois College of Law, with the American Bankruptcy Institute, is hosting "A Debtor World: Interdisciplinary Academic Symposium on Debt," May 2-3, 2008. From the conference website: Perhaps the most common American experience today is debt...
More on Foreclosures and Bailouts (from NYTimes, CAP, and Urban Inst.)
Posted on March 26, 2008The housing market continues to dominate the news: The importance of homeowners seeking help in time to avoid foreclosure is covered in: John Leland, "Swift Steps Help Avert Foreclosure in Baltimore," N.Y. Times, Mar. 26, 2008. The Center for American...
National Equal Justice Library Symposium at Georgetown March 25, 2008
Posted on March 24, 2008On Tuesday, March 25, from 1:30-6pm, Georgetown University Law Center is hosting a ?Symposium and Celebration of the National Equal Justice Library?s Arrival at Georgetown Law and the Library?s Acceptance of the Papers of Gary Bellow.? The National Equal Justice...
Some not so interesting papers of mine (on Remittances and Obligations of Privilege)
Posted on March 19, 2008Please excuse the self-promoting post regarding two of my articles... One of my articles just got published in its final version: Ezra Rosser, Obligations of Privilege, 32 N.Y.U. REV. L. & SOC. CHANGE 1 (2007). The abstract is below: Little...
Financial Meltdown Editorials
Posted on March 18, 2008The big news of the last few days, the continuing financial meltdown of Wall Street, tied partly to subprime loans and partly to poor regulation/poor choices and risky behavior, has generated a number of interesting editorials. Here is a selection...
Harvard announces Zero Tuition for Public Interest Students in their 3L year
Posted on March 18, 2008HLS announced that it "plans to waive tuition for third-year students who pledge to spend five years working either for nonprofit organizations or the government" from NY Times coverage, the story is here and the HLS press release is here....
Seeking others interested in AALS Open Source Idea
Posted on March 17, 2008For law professors: The AALS just sent out a request for Open Source proposals for the next annual meeting. See Below. I am writing to see if others are interested in joining me in putting together a proposal focusing on...
Valparaiso: Law, Poverty and Economic Inequality Conference Schedule
Posted on March 14, 2008Valparaiso University School of Law is hosting "Law, Poverty and Economic Inequality," a two day conference April 3-4, 2008, and has not posted the schedule as well as a press release (you'll see if you check it out that I...
Slum Tourism
Posted on March 14, 2008The New York Times recently covered slum tourism: Eric Weiner, "Slum Visits: Tourism or Voyeurism" NYTimes, March 9, 2008. Thanks to Frank Pasquale and Concurring Opinions for highlighting this story. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Symposium Issues related to Poverty Law
Posted on March 14, 2008A number of law review symposium issues have recently come out that focus on poverty related topics: Iowa Journal of Gender, Race & Justice Vol. 11: One Act, Ten Years, and Thousands of Families: Welfare Reform in Contemporary America (TOC...
Pope's Lent Message focuses on Almsgiving and aiding those in need
Posted on March 11, 2008Arguably this could be good for a poverty course (particularly at a Catholic school) and I thought it interesting (though I am not Catholic) ... The Pope's 2008 Message for Lent focuses on "the practice of almsgiving, which represents a...
Very Good Reporting on Condo Conversions with Human Costs and Mechanisms
Posted on March 10, 2008The Washington Post is doing a special series entitled "Forced Out: The Cost of D.C.'s Condo Boom" that is worth reading and could be a good addition to a housing/property and of course poverty law class. The stories so far:...
New York Times Magazine March 9, 2008 on Charitable Giving
Posted on March 08, 2008The cover story of the New York Times Sunday Magazine for March 9, 2008 is entitled "Giving It Away," and most of the Magazine's articles are on philanthropy. Additionally there is a slide show on Social Entreprenuers. If you don't...
Loyola New Orleans Symposium on Criminal Indigent Defense April 4, 2008
Posted on March 08, 2008Loyola University New Orleans School of Law is hosting a symposium on Criminal Indigent Defense on April 4, 2008. For more info, click here.
The Legal Profession and the Unmet Needs of the Immigrant Poor - Georgetown J. of Legal Ethics
Posted on March 08, 2008The Georgetown J. of Legal Ethics recently published an article by Judge Robert A. Katzmann entitled "The Legal Profession and the Unmet Needs of the Immigrant Poor." SSRN does not seem to have the article but the Georgetown website has...
Interesting Papers being Presented
Posted on March 05, 2008The Legal Scholarship Blog does a daily report of papers being presented at law schools across the country and two recent presentations might be of interest. First, Jacob Hacker presents on March 6th at his own university (Yale) a draft...
Marion Crane changing schools but Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity staying at UNC
Posted on March 04, 2008As reported by Brian Leiter, Prof. Marion Crane is moving from UNC to Wash U/St. Louis, but according to Prof. Crane, the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity is staying at UNC and the school will be picking a new...
Stigma and School Free Lunch Programs
Posted on March 01, 2008The N.Y. Times has a new article on the stigma associated with free lunch programs that are structured in ways that make recipients identifiable relative to other students; this problem echoes the problems of food stamps pre-EBT cards and such...
Paper on Privatization of Social Welfare, focused on Housing
Posted on February 28, 2008A paper worth checking out that is not exactly new, but still worth checking out is the following one from Nestor Davidson, "Relational Contracts in the Privatization of Social Welfare: The Case of Housing," 24 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev....
Interesting Book: Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference
Posted on February 27, 2008There is an interesting book that might be worth checking out (it has been out for a little while but I hadn't seen it until I got a random Amazon.com ad today): Alberto Alesina & Edward L. Glaeser, Fighting Poverty...
William F. Buckley Jr. died at age 82 today.
Posted on February 27, 2008One of the pillars of American conservatism, William F. Buckley, Jr., died today. See NYTimes story here. For more on Buckley, see "The Buckley Effect," NYTimes Oct. 2, 2005. For more of his writing, on any number of issues, see...
Sameer M. Ascher on Law Clinics and the Poor
Posted on February 26, 2008Sameer M. Asher has posted an interesting paper, "Law Clinics and Collective Mobilization," to SSRN. Here is the abstract: Poor people are not served well by the kinds of advocacy currently taught and reinforced in most law clinics. The canonical...
Interesting photos perhaps good for classes
Posted on February 23, 2008An email forward with interesting photos on weekly food expenditures across countries is making its way around and has made it to a number of blogs. Here is a link to the photos. I haven't been able to find the...
Another Economic Mobility Project Publication AND Helpful Urban Institute Lit Review
Posted on February 20, 2008From their email announcement (do check out the lit reviews at the end of this posting): The Economic Mobility Project released five new chapters in its continuing series on economic mobility and the status of the American Dream. The new...
Very Good Krugman Editorial
Posted on February 18, 2008Paul Krugman has a new op-ed on poverty, "Poverty is Poison," NY Times, Feb. 18, 2008 that if I was not afraid of violating rights held by the Times I would post in its entirety. It is worth reading! -E.R....
UDC Law Review Symposium on Katrina
Posted on February 17, 2008The University of the District of Columbia Law Review is hosting, "Katrina's Wake: Emergency Preparedness and Response from the Bayou to the Beltway," on Feb. 29, 2008, and they will also be sharing photos taken in the wake of Katrina...
SALT Teaching Conference: "Teaching for Social Change" March 14-15, 2008
Posted on February 14, 2008"Teaching for Social Change" is the theme of this year's SALT teaching conference. Hosted at the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, the conference will be packed with new...
Library Listings of Poverty Law Resources
Posted on February 13, 2008Many libraries have put together pages focusing on Poverty law and I am going to start making a list that I am happy to update with any additional pages that are sent to my email. Univ. of Minnesota Law Library's...
Epstein arguing against state based redistributions
Posted on February 13, 2008Richard Epstein, I would bet will find a fairly unsympathetic audience in readers of this blog (in one of my law school classes the professor was very direct in saying that Epstein was assigned to provide the foil to the...
Boston Review on Ending Urban Poverty and Middle Class (Warren) issues
Posted on February 12, 2008In their Forums and Special Issues section, the Boston Review includes a couple of articles on urban poverty plus a number of articles on the middle class: Dalton Conley, Ending Urban Poverty Introduction Patrick Sharkey, The Inherited Ghetto Stefanie DeLuca,...
CNN on What is Middle Class
Posted on February 12, 2008CNN.com has posted an short intro definition piece on defining the Middle Class. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Resource on Black/White disparities & New Paper on Discrimination in Low Wage Jobs
Posted on February 10, 2008Conference Papers posted online The Chicago Workshop on Black-White Inequality has posted a large number of papers presented at their earlier meetings, an advantage of which is that these papers are both sorted into panel topics and cover a significant...
LatCrit Call for Papers and Prior Conference Papers
Posted on February 08, 2008The LatCrit conference is a good way to share work connected to Latino issues, not surprising many papers presented there (and later published in connection with the conference) have a poverty angle. The next LatCrit No. XIII is Oct. 2-4,...
Romney's gracious exit from the campaign
Posted on February 07, 2008It is almost not worth blogging about, but after listening to Mitt Romney's withdrawal speech from the presidential campaign (Romney campaign press release here), I thought his attack on welfare was worth noting because it seemed particularly angry as well...
Conference Announcement: Indigenous Economic Development Apr. 3, 2008
Posted on February 06, 2008Lewis and Clark Law School is hosting a conference on "Indigenous Economic Development: Sustainability, Culture and Business," Friday, April 4, 2008 in Portland, Oregon. The speakers are: Gavin Clarkson, Matthew Fletcher, Kevin Gover, David Haddock, Stacy Leeds, Robert Miller (also...
Another paper by Jonathan Barry Forman
Posted on February 06, 2008Jonathan Barry Forman, author of Making America Work, has posted "Managing the Beast: How Government Can Reduce Wealth Inequality" (forthcoming Georgetown J. on Poverty L. & Pol'y) to SSRN. ABSTRACT: The government can, and should, intervene in the free market...
Krugman on the difference between the Clinton and Obama Health Care plans
Posted on February 05, 2008Paul Krugman (an unofficial Krugman site is here) has an interesting article on the health care proposals of Clinton and Obama and how the plans differ in terms of ensuring everyone is covered: "Clinton, Obama, Insurance" NYTimes Feb. 4, 2008....
New Economic Mobility Project Report on Govn't Spending on Mobility
Posted on February 04, 2008New Economic Mobility Project Report: How Much Does the Federal Government Spend to Promote Economic Mobility and for Whom? Abstract: Education, work experience and saving enhance the opportunity for upward economic mobility. To this end, many federal investments aim to...
Journal Special Issue: Poverty Law and Law Schools - What's Working, How and Why?
Posted on January 23, 2008The Winter 2007 issue of the Management Information Exchange Journal includes articles and features from today's leaders and top consultants in the legal services and legal education communities. This issue's Special Feature is entitled "Poverty Law and Law Schools -...
Harvard Law Review article on Poverty and Civil Rights issues
Posted on January 23, 2008The Harvard Law Review just published: (UN)COVERING IDENTITY IN CIVIL RIGHTS AND POVERTY LAW by Anthony V. Alfieri Here is the abstract: The effective delivery of scarce legal goods to disadvantaged clients requires more than the provision of equal access,...
Candidates Obama, Edwards, and Clinton on Poverty
Posted on January 16, 2008There is a new center for the study of poverty at Stanford, The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, and their first issue of Pathways: a magazine on poverty, inequality, and social policy edited by David Grusky...
Prof. Larson, I hope you are right: Legacy Admits and the Constitution's Nobility Clauses
Posted on January 15, 2008Adam Liptak has just written an interesting N.Y. Times article on legacy admits, "A Hereditary Perk the Founding Fathers Failed to Anticipate," Jan. 15, 2008. In the article, Liptak presents the standard defense of legacy admissions practices but ends by...
Financial Aid for the Upper Class - Harvard expands its support to reach the rich
Posted on January 15, 2008Sara Rimer and Alan Finder report that Harvard will be substantially expanding its financial aid to those whose parents make between $120-180K/year. The article, "Harvard's Aid to Reach High in Middle Class," N.Y. Times (Dec. 11, 2007), in its title....
SCHIP Brief Yale Law Journal Pocketpart Article
Posted on January 12, 2008The Yale Law Journal Pocketpart just published an interesting brief student article on SCHIP: Manav Bhatnagar, Overcoming Deference to Administrative Regulation: Expanding the State Children?s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), 117 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 155 (2008), http://thepocketpart...
Particularly for Students: Yale Rebellious Lawyering Conference (Feb. 22-24, 2008)
Posted on January 10, 2008Yale Law School's Rebellious Lawyering Conference is a good opportunity for progressively minded students to network and go to panels on a range of issues. Registration is now available online here. Schedule Here. Keynote address by Bill Quigley (Loyola New...
Conference Announcement: The Fair Housing Act After 40 Years, IUPUI April 3-4, 2008
Posted on January 04, 2008Indiana Law Review Symposium April 3-4, 2008 The Fair Housing Act After 40 Years: Continuing the Mission to Eliminate Housing Discrimination and Segregation Keynote speaker: Theodore M. Shaw, Esq., Director-Counsel and President of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund,...
Instructions on subscribing to this blog
Posted on January 02, 2008There are a number of ways to subscribe to blogs, but since I have gotten a number of questions on this, one way is to enter your email address in the space to the right of the blog page under...
N.Y. Times Articles of Interest from the past weeks
Posted on January 02, 2008This is just a list of poverty related articles of interest from this past few weeks: Jared Diamond, "What's Your Consumption Factor?" NY Times Jan. 2, 2008 [discussing consumption in developed countries versus the rest of the world] Jonathan D....
Anne Alstott: Equal Opportunity and Inheritance Taxation
Posted on December 24, 2007The newest issue of the Harvard Law Review features an article of interest: Anne Alstott, Equal Opportunity and Inheritance Taxation, 121 Harv. L. Rev. 469 (2007), full text here. In the article, Alstott presents her views about what an inheritance...
Charity Information and Rankings
Posted on December 20, 2007Charity rankings and information dissemination got some attention from the N.Y. Times on Dec. 20, 2007 in an article profiling www.givewell.net (the article is "2 Young Hedge Fund Veterans Stir Up the World of Philanthropy" by Stephanie Strom). There are...
Edward's "Two Americas" Time Article
Posted on December 17, 2007Time Magazine recently featured the story, ""Two Americas" Enough for Edwards?" by Karen Tumulty. It discusses Edwards' coming to focus on poverty issues and the power of his 2004 Two Americas speech. -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu
Query: procedural court losses based on not having a lawyer
Posted on December 17, 2007A civil procedure professor emailed me requesting that I see if anybody has a good case or story in which someone loses a lawsuit on procedural grounds because they could not afford a lawyer to be included in a civil...
Some interesting papers
Posted on December 09, 2007Jonathan Barry Forman, "Promoting Economic Justice in the Face of Globalization," Available Here. ABSTRACT: This paper offers recommendations about how we can promote economic justice in the face of globalization. At the outset this paper discusses the dramatic increase in...
David Brooks, Dictatorship of Talent (China - USA?)
Posted on December 05, 2007David Brooks' recent editorial "The Dictatorship of Talent," N.Y. Times, Dec. 4, 2007, discusses in an interesting way the rise an unforgiving, high-stakes testing based, meritocracy in China. It is worth reading for its own sake, but I will admit...
Economic Costs of Inequality - Richard H. McAdams
Posted on December 05, 2007Paper/Chapter of interest posted to SSRN: Richard H. McAdams, "Economic Costs of Inequality" (November 2007). U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 370 Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1028874. Abstract: This brief chapter surveys some of the economic literature...
AALS Poverty Related Sessions
Posted on December 03, 2007There are lots of Association American Law Schools Annual Meeting sessions that touch on poverty law so I am going to list them by date but the details are available through the links. The Poverty Law Section's panel is on...
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