The AALS sections on Poverty Law and Clinical Legal Education will sponsor a joint program at the AALS Annual Meeting, entitled 50 Years After the War on Poverty: Evaluating Past Enactments and Innovative Approaches for Addressing Poverty in the 21st Century.
The program will explore the effectiveness of the federal War on Poverty programs in addressing/eradicating poverty, and participants will discuss how amendments to those laws have had an impact on their effectiveness. The War on Poverty programs include: Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF, formerly Assistance for Families and Dependent Children), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps), federally funded legal services (originally under the Office of Economic Opportunity, and now the Legal Services Corporation), Head Start, and the No Child Left Behind Act (originally the Elementary and Secondary Education Act), among others. In addition, the joint program will explore newer ways that the federal government has attempted to address poverty, such as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Childrens Health Insurance Program, the Family and Medical Leave Act and others.
The Boston College Journal of Law and Social Justice will publish selected papers, no more than two of which will be selected for presentation at the joint program in New Orleans. Selected authors must agree not to publish their work in another journal. Not all papers selected for publication will be presented at the annual meeting.
Submit papers by email attachment to aals.waronpoverty.papers[@]gmail.com. As the Planning Committee will use a blind review process, a cover letter with the authors name and contact information should accompany the paper. The paper itself, including the title page and footnotes must not contain any references identifying the author or the authors school. The submitting author is responsible for taking any steps necessary to redact self-identifying text or footnotes.
Deadline: Near complete papers should be submitted by August 9, 2013.
For more information, please contact Emily Suski, Planning Committee Co-Chair for the Poverty Law Section at esuski[@]gsu.eduor Hina Shah, Planning Committee Member for the Clinical Legal Education Section at hshah[@]ggu.edu. im
