Welcome to Berkeley!

Berkeley Law professors Abbye Atkinson, Joy Milligan, Jeff Selbin and Karen Tani

Panel Session 1 

Welfare Theory 

• Lee Fennell (Chicago): “Slicing and Lumping Public Assistance”
• Andrew Hammond (Univ. of Florida): “The Old New Property”
• Kathryn A. Sabbeth (Univ. of North Carolina): “Underdevelopment of Poor People’s Law”
• David Papke (Marquette): “Law and the Poor: An Interdisciplinary Study of Law’s Relationship to Poverty”

Tax

• Karen Czapanskiy (Maryland): “What’s Tax Got to Do with It?: Structured Settlements, Factoring and Impoverished Communities”
• Stacey L. Tutt (UC-Irvine): “Expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit by Excluding Cancellation of Debt Income”
• Francine J. Lipman (UNLV): “Audited: Automating Racism”
• Ariel Jurow Kleiman (San Diego): “Impoverishment by Taxation”

Panel Session 2 

Family and Children

• Jane Stoever (UC-Irvine): “Mirandizing Family Justice”
• Jill C. Engle (Penn State-University Park): “Re-conceptualizing Harm: Family Violence Remedies and Poverty Reduction”
• Clare Huntington (Fordham): “Legal Perspectives on Early Childhood Development”
• Barbara Fedders (Univ. of North Carolina): “How Juvenile Court Impoverishes Parents”

“Fines, Fees, and The Academy: Collaborative Opportunities for Teaching and Advocacy”

• Colleen F. Shanahan (Columbia)
• Jeff Selbin (UC-Berkeley)
• Others TBD

Lunch and Keynote

Tirien Steinbach (ACLU of Northern California)

Panel Session 3 

Payments

• Tonya L. Brito (Wisconsin): “Litigating Poverty”
• Daniel L. Nagin (Harvard): “Mysterious Filing Fees, Phony Cases, and Judicial Empathy: A Legal History of U.S. v. Kras”

Disability

• Sarah H. Lorr (Brooklyn): “Demands Beyond Reason: Expectations and Requirements of Motherhood in Light of Courts’ Failure to Enforce the ADA in Termination of Parental Rights Case”
• Jasmine E. Harris (UC-Davis): “Disability Debts”

Legal Services

• Jabeen Adawi (Georgetown): “Changing Every Wrong Door into the Right One: Barriers to Justice and Empowerment in Traditional Legal Service Intake Models”
• Alissa Rubin Gomez (Houston) & Renee Danser (Harvard): “Demand-Side Justice”

Work Requirements

• Sidney D. Watson (St. Louis University): “Work Requirements, Waivers and Judicial Review: Protecting Medicaid (and other Anti-Poverty Programs) from Agency Overreach”
• Medha D. Makhlouf (Penn State Dickinson): “Laboratories of Exclusion: Medicaid, Federalism, and Immigrants”

Book Talk

• Andrea Freeman (Hawai’i): “Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice”

Panel Session 4

“State Efforts to Reform Legal Services Regulation”

• Anna E. Carpenter (Utah)
• Alyx Mark (Wesleyan)
• Lucy Ricca (Stanford)

Housing

• Elizabeth Elia (New Mexico): “Perpetual Affordability Covenants: Can These Land Use Tools Solve the Affordable Housing Crisis?”
• Norrinda Brown Hayat (Rutgers-Newark): “Housing Abolition”
• Andrea J. Boyack (Washburn): “Fairer Housing, Better Education”
• Anthony V. Alfieri (Miami): “Black, Poor, and Gone: Civil Rights Law’s Inner-City Crisis”

Incarceration

• Jenny E. Carroll (Alabama): “The Hidden Cost of Non-Monetary Conditions of Release in a World of Bail Reform”
• Noah Zatz (UCLA): “Better Than Jail: Social Policy in the Shadow of Racialized Mass Incarceration”
• SpearIt (Thurgood Marshall): “Jailhouse Lawyering and Probono Publico: Turning a Prisoner’s Last Hope into Lasting Hope”

Panel Session 5

Rights

• Tristin Green (Univ. of San Francisco): “Rethinking Racial Entitlements”
• Joy Milligan (UC-Berkeley): “Spending Clause Civil Rights”
• Michele Gilman (Baltimore): “Five Privacy Principles (from the GDPR) the United States Should Adopt to Advance Economic Justice”
• Amalie Frese (European University Institute): “Poverty as a Prohibited Ground of Discrimination in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights”

Evictions

• Margaret Hagan (Stanford): “A Strategic Blueprint for Eviction System Redesign”
• Juliet Brodie (Stanford): TBD Housing/Evictions
• Katy Ramsey (Memphis): “Self-Help Is Alive and Well: The Problem of Extra-Judicial Evictions and the Need to Reform the Summary Process”
• Clare Pastore (USC): “Eviction, Right to Counsel, and the Preservation of Affordable Housing”

Panel Session 6

Access to Justice

• Katherine Wallat (Denver): “Reconceptualizing the Lawyers’ Role in Accessing Justice”
• Claire Johnson Raba (UC-Irvine): “Low-Income Litigants as Guinea Pigs for the Free Market: State Court Public Record Access and the Necessity of Empirical Data to Evaluate Emerging Technologies in the Legaltech A2J Market”
• Elizabeth L. MacDowell (UNLV): “The Sex/Gender Diversity and Access to Justice Project”

Homelessness

• Sara K. Rankin (Seattle): “Hiding Homelessness: The Transcarceration of Homelessness”
• Marc L. Roark (Southern): “Homeless Cities: Martin v. City of Boise, how we got here and where it leads”
• Nantiya Ruan (Denver): “Anti-Homeless Advocacy: the Legality of Policy Work of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in Colorado”

“Immigrants Rising Through Access to Higher Education & UndocuHustle”

• Dr. Iliana Perez, Immigrants Rising
• TBD Undocumented Fellow, Immigrants Rising
• Francine J. Lipman (UNLV)

Utilities

• Uma Outka (Kansas): “Energy Law and the Low-Income Household”
• Camille Pannu (Irvine): “Water Poverty”
• Latonia Haney Keith (Concordia): “The Constitutionality of Water Tax Liens”

Panel Session 7

Health

• Muhammad Zaheer Abbas (International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan): “Implications of Poverty, Inequalities and Trade Liberalization for Access to Health Technologies: An Evaluation of India’s Legislative Response”
• Brietta R. Clark (Loyola Los Angeles): “Expanding Health Care’s Reach into Poor Communities: Improving Community Health or Widening the Net of Social Control?”
• Laura Hermer (Mitchell Hamline): “The Means and Ends of Wellness Programs”
• Kaaryn Gustafson (UC-Irvine): “Tallying the Expendables: Illuminating and Countering Social Darwinism in American Law and Policy”

Development

• Daniela A. Tagtachian (Miami): “The Role of New Urbanism in Global Urban Displacement”
• Etienne C. Toussaint (Univ. of the District of Columbia): “Beyond Opportunity Zones: Fostering Economic Democracy Through Community Investment Trusts”
• Jennifer Safstrom (Georgetown): “The Devastating Impact of Natural Disasters in Magnifying Socioeconomic Inequities”
• Alina Ball (Hastings): “Corporate Community Lawyering”

Lunch and Socializing (informal)

Panel Session 8

“Tribal Economic Development”

• Gregory Ablavsky (Stanford)
• Seth Davis (UC-Berkeley)
• Katherine Florey (UC-Davis)
• Ezra Rosser (American)
• Robert J. Miller (Arizona State): “Creating Private Sector Economies in Native America”

Immigration

• JoNel Newman (Miami) & Melissa Swain (Miami): “Anti-Poverty Practice Changes in Response to the War on Impoverished Immigrants”
• Shayak Sarkar (UC-Davis): “Capital Controls as Migrant Controls”
• Julian Montijo (Northeastern): “Child Welfare, Immigration, and the Rights to (and need for) Representation”
• Stephen Lee (Irvine): “Entrepreneurialism in the Age of Workplace Enforcement”
• Shanta Trivedi (Baltimore): “My Family Belongs to Me: A Child’s Right to Family Integrity”

Employment and Education

• Daniele de Mattos Carreira Turqueti (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil): “Social dumping: the right to work and the stratification of the world society”
• Pascal McDougall (Harvard): “What the Economics of Collective Bargaining Teach Us About Antipoverty Strategies in Housing, Consumer, and Credit Markets”
• Ruqaiijah Yearby (St. Louis Univ.): “Poverty, Low-wages, and Medicaid”
• Courtney Anderson (Georgia State): “Engaging Diversity: Pathways to Bioethics for Minority Students”
• Amber Baylor (Texas A&M): “Reparations for the War on Vulnerable Students”

Panel Session 9

“Teaching Technology: Addressing Technological Threats to Marginalized People and Finding Technology’s Promise”

• Michele Gilman (Baltimore)
• Jennifer Urban (Berkeley)

“A New Battleground: Rulemaking and the Role of Lawyers in the Anti-Hunger Movement”

• TBD MAZON Speakers

“Access to Justice Advocacy with a Rural Focus”

• Zach Newman (Legal Aid Association of California)

Contract Law

• Danielle Kie Hart (Southwestern): “So The Haves Come Out Ahead. What Else is New?”
• Daniele Imbruglia (Università di Roma) & Sara Amighetti (University of Zurich): “When contract law meets poverty”

 International Lessons

• Yael Efron (Zefat Academic College): “What is taught by clinical teaching? An Israeli law school as a test case”
• Kristen Barnes (Syracuse): “Housing, Debt, and Poverty in Europe”

Panel Session 10

Criminal Law

• Sunita Patel (UCLA): “Policing Poverty”
• Timothy M. Mulvaney (Texas A&M): “A World of Distrust”
• Giacomo Pailli & Alessandro Simoni (Univ. of Florence): “Begging, rule of law and academic activism in Italy”

Democracy

• Steven M. Virgil (Wake Forest): “Voting barriers as a response to the reduced efficacy of social welfare as a means of social control – The Conflicting Position of Welfare Reform and The National Voter Registration Act of 1993”
• Julie Nice (Univ. of San Francisco): “Deconstitutionalization of Poverty Law and Access to Democracy”
• Yael Cohen-Rimer (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel): “Not by bread alone: A theoretical and practical Constitutional Approach to Poverty”

Legal Services 2

• Marc-Tizoc González (New Mexico): “Chicano and Chicana Rebellions: California Rural Legal Assistance y los Centros Legales de Norte California”
• Tom Lininger (Oregon): “Putting Justice Within: Reach of the Poor: A Proposal to Revise Ethical Rules for Lawyers and Judges”
• Javad Gohari (European Academy of Humanities and Business Studies): “Poverty and Inaccessibility of Justice in England”

Closing & Thanks

Ezra Rosser