2026 Symposium
Feb
20
9:30am - 4:00pm Georgetown University Law Center, Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor From the Ground Up: Self-Determination & Local Autonomy in the Fight Against Poverty

Join scholars, practitioners, advocates, and community leaders for panel discussions and engagement events on how law and organizing can advance dignity, autonomy, and collective power.

Featuring Corey Shaw Jr, Empower DC Historian, Director of the DC Legal Project, & Reparations Advocate, plus many more speakers and community members!

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Volume 33
Issue
II

Letter from the Editors

by Sarah Minion, Erika Anclade, Yaseen Hashmi, Shawn Ali, Julia Tecotzky, Rebecca Wilson
Dear reader, Thank you for reading Issue 2 of Volume 33 of the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy. As the nation’s first law journal focused on advancing scholarship […]
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Waiter, Extra Tip, No Tax: A Tax and Poverty Law Analysis

by Marilyn Hajj
“Add a tip?” Maybe you just don’t want to—but tipped workers can’t afford for you not to. Across the country, service workers are twice as likely to live in poverty […]
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Equity in Place, Segregation, and the Phillips Neighborhood

by Myron Orfield
This Article describes an existential legal and factual conflict about residential segregation. It is centered in a neighborhood a few blocks north of where George Floyd—and more recently Renee Good—were […]
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Law, Political Economy, and Organizing for Tenant Power

by Ali Zane
From coast to coast, in communities large and small, tenants are organizing together into tenant unions to leverage their collective power. This movement is both a response and the solution […]
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The Pervasive and Troubling Use of Coverage Attorneys in Assembly-Line Litigation

by Alexa Rosenbloom
Debt collection cases dominate state court civil dockets in Massachusetts and across the country. Extant scholarship regarding debt collection in the courts has focused on what makes it easy for […]
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The Difference a Lawyer Can Make

by Sarah and Kristen Bor-Zale
“I cannot go into court on my own again. . . . The attorney is not understanding. . . . I am near tears. . . . He said that […]
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Control, Not Care: The Conflict Between Minnesota’s Prenatal Substance Use Statutes and Reproductive Rights

by Christina Chang
This Note argues that Minnesota’s prenatal substance use statutes, enacted in response to the racialized “crack baby” panic of the late 1980s, violate the state constitutional protections for reproductive rights […]
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