Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy

We would like to extend a huge congratulations to our new Volume 32 staff editors! We are excited to welcome such an incredible group of students to our team.

📢 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 📢 The Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy is calling for submissions for publication in Volume 32! Authors who submit by August 1st will receive notifications by August 5th. After August 1st, we will continue to accept submissions on a rolling basis. We are accepting articles, student notes, and any other works at this time. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: economic justice and mobility, labor and employment, health disparities, housing insecurity, the criminalization of poverty, and education equity and access. GJPLP prefers that articles do not exceed 25,000 words, including text and footnotes, and requests that they are formatted according to Bluebook style. Please submit articles as Word documents via Scholastica or email submissions to us at lawjplp@georgetown.edu.

Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) is hiring an #ExecutiveDirector. If you want to help combat structural inequality in housing and education, there is no better place to be. Job description and application procedure described below.

The Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy is thrilled to hit the ground running on Vol. XXXII. We are now accepting article and note submissions! Our journal published thoughtful, innovative, and impactful scholarship from students, academics, and practitioners. Most of our pieces seek to contribute ideas to combat poverty and promote economic justice. We are interested in new, bold, intersectional works, so if you wrote an interesting seminar paper or have been plugging away at independent scholarship, please consider submitting them to GJPLP. We can always be reached at lawjplp@georgetown.edu or via Scholastica.

Volume 31 Issue 3 is live on our website! Read the full publication here: https://lnkd.in/gaug8a9F As Volume 31 comes to a close, we would like to thank all of the authors that contributed thoughtful and innovative scholarship to combat poverty and promote economic justice. We would also like to express our gratitude for our Faculty Advisors, Professors Yael Cannon and Peter Edelman, as well as our Board of Advisors for their unwavering support and guidance. Finally, we are so grateful for the diligent work and the community of the Volume 31 staff. The work of the journal would not be possible without the dedication of so many anti-poverty advocates providing hope for a more equitable, just, and caring world.

Check out Leah Cubanski's new piece on tackling wealth inequality!

Staff Editor Charles Kip explores the impact of free will and choice rhetoric in housing policy. Check it out!

In our latest online publication, Joshua Levin of Tzedek DC reflects on the recent success of the Street Vendor Advancement Act as well as the work that still needs to be done to promote dignity for DC workers and ensure that DC's Clean Hands Law does not punish poverty. https://lnkd.in/e3XtDtkD

If you're a Georgetown Law student interested in joining a law journal, come check out our offices and meet current members! We hope to see you there!

We’re excited to introduce the GJPLP Vol. 32 Editor-in-Chief, Sarah Clements! Sarah is from Newtown, Connecticut, and received her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University. Before law school, she spent almost a decade as an advocate in the gun violence prevention movement, electoral politics, and strategic communications. After helping to form a union at her workplace, Sarah was inspired to become a lawyer to support organizers and build worker power. She is particularly interested in topics related to labor and employment law, racial capitalism, and legal history. Sarah joined GJPLP because of its emphasis on community and its mission of centering new ideas and voices addressing the massive umbrella that is poverty law and policy. As EIC, she hopes to help grow GJPLP’s reputation for publishing impactful, quality, solution-focused, people-centered scholarship that contemplates how we can use the law to promote economic, racial, and gender justice.