Planning Underway for 2007 Issue of Clearinghouse Review; Suggestions Welcome

After publishing back-to-back special issues of Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Poverty Law and Policy, the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law is beginning to plan for next year’s special issue.

Each year the Shriver Center publishes an issue that covers a particular aspect of poverty law in depth. In selecting a topic editors solicit input from Shriver Center attorneys and other experienced poverty law advocates from around the country and then solicit articles from nationally recognized experts on that topic. For 2007, the editors are considering, among other possibilities, “The Criminalization of Poverty and Barriers to Reentry,” “Work: Does It Work to Reduce Poverty?” and “Barriers Faced by Low-Income People with Disabilities.” However, the editors are in the early stages of planning, and a final decision might be a topic that has not yet been suggested.

The editors are asking, “What do you think? What aspect of poverty law—whether newly emerging or heretofore inadequately addressed, whether one of the above or something we haven’t yet thought of—would be most helpful to low-income people and their advocates as the Clearinghouse Review special issue topic for 2007?” Send suggestions to Ilze Hirsh, editor. The editors appreciate your input.