Poverty Law, Policy, and Practice: Policy and Practice, Second Edition

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Authors

Juliet Brodie
Clare Pastore
Ezra Rosser
Jeffrey Selbin

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892 pages

Publication Date

2020-09-15

Edition

Second Edition

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Poverty Law, Policy, and Practiceis 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.

New to the Second Edition:

Updated coverage of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
Updated coverage of criminalization of poverty and efforts to decriminalize poverty
Additional content for every chapter, with an emphasis on new cases, data, and sources

Professors and students will benefit from:

Three beginning chapters of general background on poverty numbers (data), social welfare (policy) and constitutional law (doctrine), followed by substantive chapters that can be selected based on professor interest, which makes the book easy to use even for 2-credit classes
Emerging topics at the intersection of criminal law and poverty, markets and poverty, and human rights and poverty, in addition to traditional poverty law topics
An author team with a combined experience of more than 100 years of teaching and practicing poverty law
Highlights throughout the text to the racial and gendered history and nature of poverty in America
An emphasis on presenting the most important topics accessibly, with careful editing and selection of excerpts to make the most of student and professor time
A mix in every chapter of theory, program details, advocacy strategies, and the experiences of poor people

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About the authors

Juliet M. Brodie

Mills Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Clinical Education

Stanford Law School

Juliet M. Brodie, who directs the Stanford Community Law Clinic (CLC), was named Associate Dean of Clinical Education and Director of the Mills Legal Clinic in the spring of 2013. She has dedicated her career to the legal rights and interests of low-income people and communities. As a clinical teacher, she has always worked in clinics embedded in low-income neighborhoods, including Stanfordrsquo;s CLC, which is in East Palo Alto. She has written on the role of neighborhood-based poverty law clinics in exposing students to important debates about public interest law while providing diverse lawyering opportunities. She is a frequent speaker on community lawyering and clinical education, and the intersection between the two. Her research interests include poverty law and the role of law in advancing economic justice for the ldquo;have-notsrdquo; in American society. She is co-author of a casebook, POVERTY LAW: POLICY PRACTICE, which is forthcoming (2014) from Aspen. Professor Brodie has served as a member of the editorial board of the Clinical Law Reviewand as Chair of the Section on Poverty Law at the AALS. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2006, Professor Brodie was an associate clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. She was formerly a litigation associate at the Boston law firm Hill Barlow and assistant attorney general for the state of Wisconsin, where she prosecuted health care providers accused of defrauding the Medicaid system.

Clare Pastore

Professor of the Practice of Law

University of Southern California Gould School of Law

Clare Pastore teaches Civil Procedure, Professional Responsibility, Poverty Law, and the Access to Justice practicum, while continuing to practice as a leading member of the California public interest community. She has received frequent state and national recognition as an outstanding advocate, including being named one of Southern Californiarsquo;s quot;Super Lawyersquot; (2006-09), one of the nationrsquo;s 45 most outstanding public interest attorneys under age 45 (American Lawyer magazine, 1997) and one of California#39;s top lawyers under 40 years old (California Law Business, 1999). She was selected as a Wasserstein Fellow by Harvard Law School in 2005 as part of its program recognizing outstanding public interest lawyers. Professor Pastore co-chairs the California State Bar Access to Justice Commissionrsquo;s Right to Counsel Task Force and is a member of the Amicus Briefs Committee and Professional Responsibility and Ethics Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Wage Justice Center and is a past member of the American Bar Associationrsquo;s Homelessness and Poverty Commission. From 1989 to 2004, Professor Pastore was a staff attorney at the Western Center on Law and Poverty, where she litigated many state and federal cases involving poverty law and disability rights. She received one of the nationrsquo;s first Skadden Fellowships to begin her work there in 1989. She was also affiliated with the ACLU of Southern California as Senior Counsel from 2004 til 2007, and Of Counsel from 2007 until 2011. Professor Pastore holds a B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) from Colgate University and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a senior editor of the Yale Law Review. She clerked for Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, in 1988-89.

Ezra Rosser

Professor of Law

American University Washington College of Law

Ezra Rosser joined the WCL faculty in 2006. He has taught Property, Federal Indian Law, Poverty Law, and Housing Law. Previously he served as a visiting professor at Ritsumeiken University, a 1665 Fellow at Harvard University, a visiting scholar at Yale Law School, and a Westerfield Fellow at Loyola University New Orleans School of Law. Ezra is a past chair of both the AALS Poverty Law Section and the AALS Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section. His articles have appeared in journals including the California Law Review, Harvard Law Policy Review, Washington University Law Review, Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal, Environmental Law, and the American Indian Law Review. Ezra received the Elizabeth Payne Cubberly Scholarship Award in 2012 and the Emalee C. Godsey Scholarship Award in 2008. Ezra is a co-author of the book Poverty Law, Policy, and Practice (Aspen 2014) (with Juliet Brodie, Clare Pastore Jeff Selbin) and was a co-editor of Tribes, Land, and the Environment (Ashgate 2012) (with Sarah Krakoff). He is currently working on The Poverty Law Canon (Michigan Press 2014) as a co-editor with Marie Failinger and on a sole authored book, Exploiting the Fifth World: Navajo Land and Economic Development (Chicago Press TBD).

Jeffrey Selbin

Clinical Professor of Law

University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

Selbin is active in local and national clinical legal education and anti-poverty efforts. In recent years, he chaired the Poverty Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and co-chaired the Lawyering in the Public Interest (Bellow Scholar) Committee of the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education. He served two terms as an elected member of the board of directors of the Clinical Legal Education Association. From 2004-2006, Selbin served on the California State Bar Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services, dedicated to improving and increasing access to justice for low-income Californians. Selbin#39;s research interests include clinical education and community lawyering, with an emphasis on evidence-based approaches. He is co-author of Poverty Law, Policy, and Practice (2014, with Juliet Brodie, Clare Pastore and Ezra Rosser). Other recent publications include The Clinic Lab Office in the Wisconsin Law Review (2013 with Jeanne Charn); Service Delivery, Resource Allocation and Access to Justice in the Yale Law Journal Online (2012 with Jeanne Charn, Anthony Alfieri and Stephen Wizner); Access to Evidence in The Center for American Progress (2011 with Josh Rosenthal and Jeanne Charn); The Clinic Effect in the Clinical Law Review (2009 with Rebecca Sandefur); and From quot;The Art of Warquot; to quot;Being Peacequot;: Mindfulness and Community Lawyering in a Neoliberal Age in the California Law Review (2007 with Angela Harris and Margaretta Lin). In 2003, Selbin was recognized with Mary Louise Frampton as a Bellow Scholar by the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education for his anti-poverty and access-to-justice efforts. In 2004, he was named a Wasserstein Fellow, honoring outstanding public interest lawyers, by Harvard Law School.

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2020-09-15

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