Category Archives: Poverty Law

Call for Papers – Land Ownership and Tenure

Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts is seeking submissions for its March 2012 issue, Land Ownership and Tenure. The deadline for submissions has been extended to Nov. 1, 2011. UN-Habitat, The United…

Gender, Sexuality, and Poverty – Gettysburg, PA

The Central Pennsylvania Consortium and the Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Programs of Dickinson College, Gettysburg College, and Franklin & Marshall College present the 2012 Annual Women’s Studies Conference, Gender,…

Framing Economic, Social & Cultural Rights for Advocacy & Mobilization – Boston, MA

The Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) at Northeastern University School of Law hosts the PHRGE Institute on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Nov. 3-4, 2011. The…

Student Writing Competition – Economic, Social, Cultural Rights in US

The Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) at Northeastern University School of Law announces the PHRGE Student Writing Competition to be held annually in conjunction with the…

Int’l Conference on Feminism and the Law – Pune, India

The Women’s Studies Center (Sponsored by UGC), ILS [Indian Law Society] Law College, Pune, in partnership with the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales and the Faculty of…

Protecting Workers’ Rights in a Post-Wisconsin World – Albany, NY

Albany Law Review presents Protecting Workers’ Rights in a Post-Wisconsin World Sept. 28, 2011. The symposium will examine the state of workers’ rights one hundred years after the Triangle Factory…

Theory and Praxis in Reducing Women’s Poverty – AALS -Washington, DC

The AALS sections on Poverty Law and Clinical Legal Education will sponsor a joint session at the upcoming 2012 AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. The program, entitled Theory and…

Regulation in the Fringe Economy – Lexington, VA

The Frances Lewis Law Center (Washington and Lee University School of Law) and the Washington and Lee Law Review present Regulation in the Fringe Economy Nov. 11, 2011. The Washington…

Law and Development, Microtrade – Seattle, WA

The Law and Development Institute (a research institute in Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia) invites paper proposals for the 2011 annual conference, Law and Development at the Microlevel: From Microtrade…

Human Right to Housing – Washington, DC

The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty presents the 2011 National Forum on the Human Right to Housing June 7-8, 2011, in Washington, DC. mw