Poverty Law LAW 730

Course Number: LAW 730; ULWR

Course Credits: 2

Poverty Law explores historical and contemporary institutional policies and practices that cause and perpetuate widespread poverty in the United States. It also looks at a variety of legal solutions to this ongoing problem. Poverty Law reviews specific laws that impact the poor in areas, including housing, education, health care, and the workplace. It also explores the parameters and limitations of the social safety net, and touches on the criminalization of poverty. Students are required to write a legal research paper.