Economic Justice Program

Publications

Wolters Kluwer has now published Juliet Brodie, Clare Pastore, Ezra Rosser, and Jeffrey Selbin, Poverty Law, Policy, and Practice (2nd ed., Wolters Kluwer, 2021)

Poverty Law, Policy, and Practice is organized around an overview and history of federal policies, significant poverty law cases, and major government antipoverty programs—welfare, housing, health, legal aid, etc.—which map onto important theoretical, doctrinal, policy, and practice questions. The book includes academic debates about the nature and causes of poverty as well as various texts that help illuminate the struggles faced by poor people. Throughout, it contains reading selections highlighting different perspectives on whether poverty is primarily caused by individual actions, structural constraints, or a mix of both. Readers will come away from the book with both a sense of the legal and policy challenges that confront antipoverty efforts, and with an understanding of the trade-offs inherent in different government approaches to dealing with poverty.

Health Affairs Health Justice Strategies to Combat COVID-19 This article urges state and local leaders in using a combination of routine and emergency powers to protect the health of low-income people who do not have the ability to shelter in place without severe consequences and who are exposed to unhealthy conditions in their homes at a much higher rate than higher income peers.

California Law Review Wage Theft in Lawless Courts This article fills a significant gap in the literature by considering the experiences of individual low-wage workers who pursue their claims in the lower courts. In doing so, it identifies the difference between the law as written and the law as experienced by low-wage workers seeking to vindicate their substantive legal rights.

Cambridge University Press Holes in the Safety Net Federalism and Poverty Holes in the Safety Net: Federalism and Poverty, edited by Professor Ezra Rosser, offers a grounded look at how states and the federal government provide assistance to poor people.

The Nation Trump's EPA Is Poisoning Our Children In his recent article, Professor Herman Schwartz in his recent article published in The Nation weighs in on the state of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Trump Administration.

NYU Clinical Law Review Teaching and Practicing Community Development Poverty Law: Lawyers and Clients as Trusted Neighborhood Problem Solvers This article draws from the authors’ experiences as lawyers and law teachers whose practices focus on resource-deprived communi- ties.

Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Stanford Law School Disrupting the Discrimination Narrative: An Argument for Wage and Hour Laws' Inclusion in Antisubordination Advocacy This Article disrupts the singular discrimination narrative of African American worker exploitation by identifying its limitations and arguing for the inclusion of wage and hour laws as a component of a broad antisubordination framework for worker protections.

EJP Publications The Poverty Law Canon The Poverty Law Canon takes readers into the lives of the clients and lawyers who brought critical poverty law cases in the United States.

EJP Publications Poverty Law: Policy & Practice Poverty Law, Policy, and Practice is organized around an overview of federal policies, significant poverty law cases, and major government antipoverty programs—welfare, housing, health, etc.—which map onto important theoretical, doctrinal, policy, and practice questions.