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Blog worth checking out: Dissenting Justice

Posted on September 28, 2008
Darren 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, 2008
Tara 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, 2008
Courtesy of Wordle.net and procrastination from class prep: -E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu

Slides on Financial Bailout

Posted on September 25, 2008
Perhaps 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...

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Recent proposal to sterilize the poor

Posted on September 25, 2008
From 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, 2008
A 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, 2008
Paul 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
J.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, 2008
NYC 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, 2008
I 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
A 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, 2008
A 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, 2008
Robert 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, 2008
More 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
Here 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, 2008
Clare 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, 2008
Robert 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, 2008
Recently 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, 2008
Call 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, 2008
McCain'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, 2008
Meredith 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, 2008
E.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, 2008
A 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, 2008
Prior 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
Jeff 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, 2008
Interesting (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...

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