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Poverty
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Counterpoint to privilege: The indigent white male
poverty in all its ramifications should be extirpated,I have been very fortunate with my experiences: the hard, the not so hard and the serendipitous have all perhaps conspired to lend…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Article on Funeral Poverty
Victoria J. Haneman recently published an article entitled, Funeral Poverty, Wills, Trusts, & Estates Law ejournal (2020). Provided below is the abstract to the Article. Death is an expensive proposition. The…
Health Law Prof Blog
Poverty and Private Law: Beyond Distributive Justice
Hanoch Dagan (Tel Aviv University), Avihay Dorfman (Tel Aviv University), Poverty and Private Law: Beyond Distributive Justice, SSRN:Poverty has so far been overwhelmingly understood as a state of distributive injustice.…
Health Law Prof Blog
Health Justice Strategies to Combat the Pandemic: Eliminating Discrimination, Poverty, and Health Inequity During and After COVID-19
Emily A. Benfer (Wake Forest University), Seema Mohapatra (Indiana University), Lindsay F. Wiley (American University), Ruqaiijah Yearby (St. Louis University), Health Justice Strategies to Combat the Pandemic: Eliminating Discrimination, Poverty,…
Athlete Rights | Lex Sportiva
Access to Sports: No pay? No play!
By Lex Sportiva
“How does using sports to get out of poverty work when you have to be rich to play at all?”. Ritwik Deswal highlights the disparity between a rich and poor…
PrawfsBlawg
Sleeping Under Bridges and Stealing Bread
Main Thursday, July 02, 2020 Sleeping Under Bridges and Stealing BreadConcurring in Espinoza, Justice Alito quoted Anatole's France's famous line that "[t]he law, in its majestic equality, equally forbids the…
The Right Coast
I lived on $6 a day with a 6-year-old and a baby on the way | Stephanie Land | Opinion | The Guardian
I spent the last of my savings on rent in May. I graduated with a bachelor s degree, $60,000 in debt, and due to have a baby in a month.…
For Good
Expanding Public Service in the COVID-19 Crisis
To consider the great need, among people of limited means, for civil legal services during the COVID-19 crisis, a good starting point is where we were before the crisis started. In…
Race and the Law Prof Blog
2020 Poverty Law Conference
By SpearIt
UPDATE: Due to the Corona Virus, the conference has been canceled.The program is available for the 2020 Poverty Law conference, happening April 10-11, 2020, at University of California Berkeley School…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Think Tank Alert: American Idea Foundation
On Monday, former House Speaker Paul Ryan launched the American Idea Foundation. The American Idea Foundation is a nonprofit, exempt under section 501(c)(3), and plans to focus on Ryan's legislative…