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Poverty
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International Law Prof Blog
International Day of Families
May 15, 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the International Day of Families. The day began in 1994 when the UN General Assembly declared 1994 to be the International Year…
The Faculty Lounge
Call For Papers: ClassCrits VII, Poverty, Precarity and Work
The ClassCrits VII conference, Poverty, Precarity, and Work: Struggle and Solidarity in an Era of Permanent(?) Crisis, will be held at UC Davis November 14-15, 2014. Here is the call…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Return of the Welfare Queen
By Tracy Thomas
Michele Gillman (Baltimore) has posted The Return of the Welfare Queen, 22 American J. Gender, Social Policy & Law (forthcoming).The “welfare queen” was shorthand for a lazy woman of color, with…
Legislation Law Prof Blog
ClassCrits VII Poverty, Precarity, and Work: Struggle and Solidarity in an Era of Permanent(?) Crisis
We thought this conference announcement might be of interest to Legislation Law Prof Blog readers. The ClassCrits VII conference will examine structural forms of inequality and discuss opportunities for advocacy…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Legal Reform for Women in Poverty
By Tracy Thomas
Jill Engle (Penn State), Promoting the General Welfare: Legal Reform to Lift Women and Children in the US Out of Poverty, 16 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice (2013).American women and children…
PropertyProf Blog
Land Loss in Rural Cambodia
Karen Coates, a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, has a short piece at Slate on how a combination of informal land rights and the global rush…
Clinical Law Prof Blog
But How Do I Teach…?: Poverty
By Carrie Hagan
This section, “But How Do I Teach…?: TOPIC” will focus on a different skill, area or lesson for clinical teachers and others alike to consider using/adapting for their teaching needs. …
Education Law Prof Blog
Behind the Numbers in Camden–NJ’s Highest-Cost Per Pupil School District
In a recent article, Philly.com (Philadelphia Inquirer) goes behind the numbers about recent comparisons of the amount of per-pupil spending in New Jersey’s Camden school district. Camden’s per pupil spending…
Legislation Law Prof Blog
Call for Papers: Legislative Causes and Solutions to the Working Poor Phenomenon
The AALS Section on Poverty Law will sponsor a session at the 2015 AALS Annual Meeting. The title of the program is Working But Poor: Understanding and Confronting the Working Poor…
The Faculty Lounge
AALS Annual Meeting 2015: Poverty Law Section Call For Papers
The Association of American Law Schools Poverty Law section is calling for papers for its January 2015 AALS annual meeting panel, Working But Poor: Understanding and Confronting the Working Poor…