POVERTY, HEALTH AND LAW: THE MEDICAL/LEGAL COLLABORATIVE (Tolbin, Roger Williams University School of Law)
Through such topics as poverty and public benefits, safe and affordable housing, family violence and child safety, the rights of people with disabilities, HIV/AIDS, and obesity and public health law, we will explore how lawyers can engage in creative problem-solving with doctors to promote justice for families and improve health.

LAW & POVERTY (Selbin, Berkeley)
This course will provide an introduction to the relationship between law and contemporary poverty in the United States, including the relevance of theory, doctrine and public policy to the significant inequality in income, assets, and access to affordable housing, health care and other basic services faced by tens of millions of U.S. residents.

COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CLINIC (Cummings, UCLA)
Community economic development (CED) has emerged as an important strategy for redressing urban poverty.  The main programmatic goal of CED—advanced primarily by community-based nonprofit organizations—has been to increase investment in low-income neighborhoods in order to produce economic transformation and community empowerment. What role do lawyers play to support CED efforts?

LAW AND POVERTY (Rosser, American University)
This class is an introduction to some of the issues and topics in law and poverty. From the syllabus you will see that this class is not a survey of the existing poverty programs or of the ways different groups experience poverty. Though there is equal merit in a class presenting all that is, or is not, being done on behalf of the poor, this class will be more theoretical, although current practices do form the backdrop for the work of the course. The class also mixes traditional legal readings with social science articles on poverty, as such the readings may have a different style from your readings in other classes.

Poverty Law (Neitz, Golden Gate University)
The primary objective of this course is to introduce students to the unique legal issues of the poor and how the legal system deals with access to justice and indigency.  We will review historical and contemporary challenges facing public interest lawyers, legal problems and policy choices regarding poverty, and effective advocacy strategies.  These themes will then be traced through three areas of substantive discussion: government benefit programs, housing law and homelessness, and family law.  We will conclude the course with an examination of new trends in legal services.