MLS090
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FUNDAMENTALS OF ANTI-POVERTY LAW
Course Title
FUNDAMENTALS ANTI-POVERTY LAW
Course Number
090
Min
3
Course Types
Letter Grading
Credit Type
NON-GPA COURSES
Location
Online
Description
This course is restricted to MLS and CLS students only.
This course explores the prevalence and persistence of poverty in California and the rest of the United States; legal and social policy definitions and measures of poverty; the phenomenon of the "working poor"; the history of the War on Poverty and other major governmental interventions to address poverty; leading U.S. Supreme Court cases involving 14th Amendment Equal Protection and Due Process rights in the context of anti-poverty programs, homelessness, and reproductive health care for the poor, among other major state and federal cases with significant implications for economic justice litigation; structural poverty and structural racism, from the time of slavery and the end of Reconstruction to legal racial discrimination, including during the modern era, and the impact on wealth accumulation and inheritance for black, indigenous, and other populations; state and federal laws, policies, and public programs intended to ameliorate the impacts of poverty or to lift people out of it, with assessments of degree of success; and non-governmental strategies and interventions to address poverty. The course further explores multi-forum advocacy in ways relevant for a broad range of professionals.
This course explores the prevalence and persistence of poverty in California and the rest of the United States; legal and social policy definitions and measures of poverty; the phenomenon of the "working poor"; the history of the War on Poverty and other major governmental interventions to address poverty; leading U.S. Supreme Court cases involving 14th Amendment Equal Protection and Due Process rights in the context of anti-poverty programs, homelessness, and reproductive health care for the poor, among other major state and federal cases with significant implications for economic justice litigation; structural poverty and structural racism, from the time of slavery and the end of Reconstruction to legal racial discrimination, including during the modern era, and the impact on wealth accumulation and inheritance for black, indigenous, and other populations; state and federal laws, policies, and public programs intended to ameliorate the impacts of poverty or to lift people out of it, with assessments of degree of success; and non-governmental strategies and interventions to address poverty. The course further explores multi-forum advocacy in ways relevant for a broad range of professionals.