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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...

Poverty Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011571006059970c 2009-07-11T13:50:22-04:00 2009-07-11T13:50:22-04:00

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...

Poverty Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011571aeb9f7970b 2009-07-03T13:49:09-04:00 2009-07-03T13:49:09-04:00

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...

Poverty Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01157192f669970b 2009-06-30T15:05:23-04:00 2009-06-30T15:05:23-04:00

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....

Poverty Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0115715f9431970b 2009-06-28T14:58:50-04:00 2009-06-28T14:58:50-04:00

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...

Poverty Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0115715a8b06970b 2009-06-25T17:16:39-04:00 2009-06-25T17:16:39-04:00

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

Poverty Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68460147 2009-06-24T16:56:10-04:00 2009-06-24T16:56:10-04:00

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...

Poverty Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68343803 2009-06-21T20:39:34-04:00 2009-06-21T20:39:34-04:00

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...

Poverty Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68241443 2009-06-18T10:39:56-04:00 2009-06-18T10:39:56-04:00

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...

Poverty Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68108011 2009-06-14T23:00:19-04:00 2009-06-14T23:00:19-04:00

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)...

Poverty Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68026357 2009-06-13T20:36:22-04:00 2009-06-13T20:36:22-04:00

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...

Poverty Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68023717 2009-06-12T10:30:04-04:00 2009-06-12T10:39:41-04:00

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. Alexander...

Poverty Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-67940795 2009-06-11T09:37:54-04:00 2009-06-11T09:37:54-04:00

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. The...

Poverty Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-67933885 2009-06-10T09:45:41-04:00 2009-06-10T09:45:41-04:00

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,...

Poverty Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-67764345 2009-06-07T03:32:33-04:00 2009-06-07T03:32:21-04:00

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...

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