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Posted on August 16, 2009
The Law Professor Blogs Network has ceased publication of this blog. See Ezra Rosser's new blog, Poverty Law.

Symposium Issue on Indian Economic Development

Posted on July 12, 2009
For 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
Alan 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...

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Article of Interest: "Tainted Loans: The Value of a Mass Torts Approach in Subprime Mortgage Litigation"

Posted on July 03, 2009
First 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, 2009
An 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, 2009
From 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, 2009
Story 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, 2009
This 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, 2009
Excuse 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, 2009
Katherine 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, 2009
An 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, 2009
Lindsay 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, 2009
Quite 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, 2009
From 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, 2009
An 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
The GW Press Release is here. Congratulations Alan! -E.R.

Jason DeParle on State Aid for those in need

Posted on May 11, 2009
Jason 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, 2009
Keith 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, 2009
Call 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, 2009
It 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
Sorry 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, 2009
Ray 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, 2009
Another 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, 2009
Though 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...

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