Poverty Law

Steven Shavell, A Note on Efficiency vs. Distributional Equity in Legal Rulemaking: Should Distributional Equity Matter Given Optimal Income Taxation?, 71 Am. Econ. Rev. (Papers…

Richard H. Fallon, Affirmative Action Based on Economic Disadvantage, 43 UCLA L. Rev. 1913 (1996).

D. James Greiner, Dalié Jiménez & Lois R. Lupica, Self-Help, Reimagined, 92 Ind. L.J. 1119 (2017).

Charles J. Ogletree, From Mandela to Mthwana: Providing Counsel to the Unrepresented Accused in South Africa, 75 B.U. L. Rev. 1 (1995).

Martha L. Minow, Essays in Honor of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Introduction and M.L.B. v. S.L.J., 519 U.S. 102 (1996), 127 Harv. L. Rev. 423,…

Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanors, 85 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1313 (2012).

Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanor Decriminalization, 68 Vand. L. Rev. 1055 (2015).

Alexandra Natapoff, Speechless: The Silencing of Criminal Defendants, 80 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1449 (2005).

Laura Weinrib, The Vagrancy Law Challenge and the Vagaries of Legal Change, 43 Law & Soc. Inquiry 1669 (2018) (reviewing Risa Goluboff, Vagrant Nation: Police…

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, The Civil Rights Canon: Above and Below, 123 Yale L. J. 2698 (2014) (reviewing Bruce Ackerman, We The People: The Civil Rights Movement…

Randall L. Kennedy, Poverty: A Collective Difficulty, a Collective Challenge, 77 Cornell L. Rev. 967 (1992).

Jeannie Suk, Taking the Home, 20 Law & Literature 291 (2008).

Gerald E. Frug, Against Centralization, 48 Buff. L. Rev. 31 (2000).

Alexandra Natapoff, The High Stakes of Low-Level Criminal Justice, 128 Yale L.J. 1648 (2019) (reviewing Issa Kohler-Haussmann, Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an…

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Race as Identity Caricature: A Local Legal History Lesson in the Salience of Intra-Racial Conflict, 151 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1913 (2003).

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Book Review, 74 J. S. Hist. 1025 (2008)(reviewing Thomas F. Jackson, From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the…

Randall Kennedy, Politicians in Robes, The Nation, Oct. 19, 2020, at 41 (reviewing Adan Cohen, Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More…

Lucie E. White, Closing the Care Gap That Welfare Reform Left Behind, 577 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 131 (2001).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Income Transfers, 14 Int’l Tax & Pub. Fin. 295 (2007).

Crystal S. Yang, Does Public Assistance Reduce Recidivism?, 107 Am. Econ. Rev. 551 (2017).

Alexandra Natapoff, Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal (2018).

Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Political Powerlessness, 90 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1527 (2015).

Alexandra Natapoff, Madisonian Multiculturalism, 45 Am U. L. Rev. 751 (1996).

Alexandra Natapoff, Snitching and the Use of Criminal Informants, in Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology (Beth M. Huebner ed., 2012).

Alexandra Natapoff, Gideon Skepticism, 70 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1049 (2013).

Sharon Dolovich & Alexandra Natapoff, Introduction: Mapping the New Criminal Justice Thinking, in The New Criminal Justice Thinking 1 (Sharon Dolovich & Alexandra Natapoff eds.,…

Alexandra Natapoff, The Penal Pyramid, in The New Criminal Justice Thinking 71 (2017).

Alexandra Natapoff, Gideon’s Servants and the Criminalization of Poverty, 12 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 445 (2015).

Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanors, in 1 Reforming Criminal Justice: Introduction and Criminalization 71 (Academy for Justice, Erik Luna ed., 2017).

Alexandra Natapoff, Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice (2009).

Alexandra Natapoff, Atwater and the Misdemeanor Carceral State, 133 Harv. L. Rev. F. 147 (2020).

Laura Weinrib, Class and Classification: The Role of Disgust in Regulating Social Status, in The Empire of Disgust: Prejudice, Discrimination and Policy in India and…

Laura Weinrib, Class and Classification, in The Empire of Disgust: Prejudice, Discrimination, and Policy in India and the US (Zoya Hasan, Aziz Z. Huq, Martha…

Betsy Gwin, Housing Resources for Families at Risk of Separation, 30 Child L. Prac. 1 (2011).

Betsy Gwin, Lessons for Anti-Poverty Advocates From the Workplace Flexibility Movement: Improving Flexibility in Low-Wage Work and Access to Work Supports, 18 Geo. J. on…

Rebecca Tushnet, The Difference Engine: Perpetuating Poverty through Algorithms, JOTWELL (July 18, 2018) (reviewing Virginia Eubanks, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish…

Samantha Power, The Courage and Compassion of Catholic Activist Dorothy Day, Wash. Post, Mar. 8, 2020, at B06 (reviewing John Loughery & Blythe Randolph, Dorothy Day:…

Michael A. Stein & Janet E. Lord, The Normative Value of a Treaty as Opposed to a Declaration: Reflections from the Convention on the Rights…

Cass R. Sunstein, Social and Economic Rights? Lessons from South Africa, in Designing Democracy: What Constitutions Do 221 (Cass R. Sunstein 2001).

Jay D. Blitzman, Where You Live Matters, CommonWealth Mag. (May 23, 2020).

Jay D. Blitzman, Justice for Some: A Tale of Two Americas, 26 Juv. Just. Update, July 2020, at 5.

William P. Alford, The Discordant Singer: How Peter Singer’s Treatment of Global Poverty and Disability Is Inconsistent and Why It Matters, 1 Am. J. L.

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Just Schools: A Holistic Approach to the Education of Impoverished Students Confronting Persistent Poverty, 49 U. Mem. L. Rev. 185 (2018).

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Two Americas in Healthcare: Federalism and Wars Over Poverty from the New Deal-Great Society to Obamacare, 62 Drake L. Rev. 981 (2014).

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, in 1 Major Acts of Congress 263 (Brian K. Landsberg ed., Macmillan Reference USA 2003).

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford Univ. Press 2011).

Mark Tushnet, “…And Only Wealth Will Buy You Justice” – Some Notes on the Supreme Court 1972 Term, 1974 Wis. L. Rev. 177.