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Conference Announcement: The Fair Housing Act After 40 Years, IUPUI April 3-4, 2008

Posted on January 04, 2008
Indiana 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, 2008
There 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, 2008
This 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, 2007
The 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...

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Charity Information and Rankings

Posted on December 20, 2007
Charity 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, 2007
Time 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, 2007
A 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, 2007
Jonathan 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, 2007
David 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, 2007
Paper/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, 2007
There 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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