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Recent Posts from Poverty Law

• Conference: “Housing Justice Network” Mar. 7-8, 2010

  The National Housing Law Project’s “Housing Justice Network Meeting” will be on Mar. 7-8, 2010 in Washington DC.  Some more info here.

• Call for Papers: Law and Society 2010

  From the Law and Society Association Website: Call for Participation Due Date: December 8, 2009 CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT PAPERS The 2010 Annual Meeting of Law and Society Association Thursday, May 27 through Sunday, May…

• LatCrit XV, Denver University, Oct. 7-10, 2010: “The Color of the Economic Crisis: Exploring the Downturn from the Bottom Up”

  Way in advance: Fifteenth Annual LatCrit Conference The Color of the Economic Crisis: Exploring the Downturn from the Bottom Up University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Denver, Colorado, October 7-10, 2010 We are pleased to…

• Reports: “The Value of A Credit Score” & “Remittance Transparency”

  The Appleseed Foundation has two new reports of interest: Jordan Vexler et al., “The Value of a Credit Score: Developing an Equitable Model for the Use of Credit Histories in Financially Underserved Communities,” Appleseed Foundation,…

• Collection of Social Entreprenuership Grants

  The hope is that I will collect a list of social entrepreneurship grants and granting institutions that students who want to do poverty work can apply to, but right now I know I am missing many…

• Article: “The Paradox of Public Sector Labor Law”

  Article: Martin H. Malin, “The Paradox of Public Sector Labor Law,” 84 Ind. L. J. 1369 (2009).  And on SSRN here.  The abstract is below: Although the percentage of employees represented in collective bargaining in…

• Video of William J. Wilson on “More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City”

  The National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan has posted video of William J. Wilson discussing “More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City” which is also the the name…

• Audio files of Stanford’s “Inequality Debates”

  The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality has posted the audio from its series “Debates about Inequality.”  From their webpage: ADDING INJURY TO INSULT: WHY DO THE POOR GET SICK? Sir Michael…

• Report: “Foreclosures: A Crisis in Legal Representation”

  New from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law: Melanca Clark with Maggie Barron, Foreclosures: A Crisis in Legal Representation (2009).  Executive summary here.  From the Brennan Center’s page on the report: The nation’s…

• Older article by Jeremy Waldron: “The Plight of the Poor in the Midst of Plenty”

  Though this is older, I saw a link to it on Harvard’s Legal Theory Blog, and thought I would post it here too: Jeremy Waldron, The Plight of the Poor in the Midst of Plenty,…