Law and Poverty

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The social, economic, political, and legal implications of poverty with emphasis on the legal problems and remedies of the indigent, including protection, welfare law, security rights, the law of bankruptcy, and housing and employment laws. Each student shall be required to write a substantial research paper in this course. Students confer individually with their professor for assessment of written work and then edit and rewrite the papers to produce works of such quality that they could be published as student notes in a law review. This course may satisfy the requirement that a student take Advanced Legal Analysis and Writing to graduate. Legal Analysis and Writing I and II are prerequisites for this course.