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Jan 15, 2025
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LAW 864 - Poverty, Race, Gender & the Law2 Credit Hours
In the United States, poverty disproportionally impacts women, immigrants, children, and people of color. Focuses on poverty law through a race and gender lens. Will begin with traditional poverty law topics – exploring definitions of poverty, competing theories about how to address poverty, the evolution of the legal rights of the poor, their access to legal assistance, and the tools that lawyers have used to advocate on their behalf and on behalf of the communities in which they live. Will explore a few topics often seen in Race and the Law or Gender and the Law courses through a poverty lens. In this portion of the course, using a comparative framework, students will have an opportunity to ask whether and how regulatory frameworks and legal rights differ in the context of social support, work and family depending on the economic position of those subject to the legal rules. In the same vein, will provide an opportunity for students to explore how social support, civil and criminal justice systems operate differently in different U.S. communities. Finally, will spend some time looking at social movements and their interactions with legal institutions. Will include readings from law, legal theory, history, public policy, and sociology as well readings from more popular sources. Course requirements include several brief reflection papers, course participation, and working with a small group to design and lead one class period conversation on a course-related topic of the groups’ choosing.
Grading Restriction: Numeric grading (JD students); A-F grading (graduate students).
Registration Restriction(s): JD students only or with Instructor Permission.
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