TRACY ROBINSON* 75 U. Mia. L. Rev. Caveat 58 (2020). PDF Version Response to Aneeke Meerkotter’s “Litigating to Protect the Rights of Poor and Marginalized Groups in Urban Spaces.” Across the world, vagrancy offenses criminalize vaguely defined, heterogeneous forms of misconduct loosely associated with idleness.[1] A court attempting to apply such laws has noted that “[t]he […]

ADRIAN JJUUKO* & JUSTINE BALYA**  75 U. Mia. L. Rev. Caveat 43 (2020). PDF Version Response to Anneke Meerkotter’s “Litigating to Protect the Rights of Poor and Marginalized Groups in Urban Spaces.” Introduction In “Litigating to Protect the Rights of Poor and Marginalized Groups in Urban Spaces,” Anneke Meerkotter discusses how advocates use public interest litigation […]

KIRSTEN ANDERSON* 75 U. Mia. L. Rev. Caveat 34 (2020). PDF Version There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. — Karl Kraus[1] The most stunning thing about Anneke Meerkotter’s article, “Litigating to Protect the Rights of Poor and Marginalized Groups in Urban Spaces,” is its universality.[2] Professor […]

STEPHEN J. SCHNABLY* 75 U. Mia. L. Rev. Caveat 8 (2020). PDF Version Introduction As the visible presence of persons experiencing homelessness has grown in major cities across the country in recent years[1] and moved to the forefront of national politics,[2] the impulse to criminalize homelessness has persisted. In a major report issued in 2012, the […]

TAMAR EZER,* FRANCO PICCININI,** & DAVID STUZIN***  75 U. Mia. L. Rev. Caveat 1 (2020). PDF Version Across the globe and throughout the United States, governments use petty offenses, such as loitering laws, to exert social control over marginalized communities. Petty offenses enable the policing of public spaces to reinforce social hierarchies and rigid gender […]