Jeffrey Selbin

University of California, Berkeley - School of Law

215 Boalt Hall

Berkeley, CA 94720-7200

United States

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California's New Vagrancy Laws: The Growing Enactment and Enforcement of Anti-Homeless Laws in the Golden State

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 04 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2016
Marina Fisher, Nathaniel Miller, Lindsay Walter and Jeffrey Selbin
University of California, Berkeley, The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, Students, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Students, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Students and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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homeless, criminalization, vagrancy, Jim Crow, anti-Okie, ugly laws, black codes

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Homeless Exclusion Districts: How California Business Improvement Districts Use Policy Advocacy and Policing Practices to Exclude Homeless People from Public Space

UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 22 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2019
Jeffrey Selbin, Stephanie Campos-Bui, Joshua Epstein, Laura Lim, Shelby Nacino, Paula Wilhlem and Hannah Stommel
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Students, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Students, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Students, University of California, Berkeley, The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, Students and University of California, Berkeley, Students
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homeless, homelessness, criminalization, poverty, business improvement district, downtown association, local government, neoliberalism

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The Clinic Effect

Clinical Law Review, Vol. 16, p. 57, 2009, NYLS Clinical Research Institute Paper No. 09/10 #8, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1498844
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 09 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2012
Rebecca L. Sandefur and Jeffrey Selbin
Arizona State University and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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Clinical legal education, pro bono, civic participation, public service

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Unmarked? Criminal Record Clearing and Employment Outcomes

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 108, No. 1, 2018
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 27 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2019
Jeffrey Selbin, Justin McCrary and Joshua Epstein
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Columbia University - Law School and University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Students
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criminal records, ban the box, reentry, mass incarceration, legal services, clean slate

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From 'The Art of War' to 'Being Peace': Mindfulness and Community Lawyering in a Neoliberal Age

California Law Review, Vol. 95, p. 2073, 2007, NYLS Clinical Research Institute Paper No. 08/09-1
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 23 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2009
Angela P. Harris, Jeffrey Selbin and Margaretta Lin
University of California, Davis - King Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Community Economic Justice Practice, East Bay Community Law Center
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lawyering, social justice, mindfulness, clinical, community economic development

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Making Families Pay: The Harmful, Unlawful, and Costly Practice of Charging Juvenile Administrative Fees in California

UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 05 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2019
Stephanie Campos-Bui, Jeffrey Selbin, Hamza Jaka, Tim Kline, Ahmed Lavalais, Alynia Phillips and Abby Ridley-Kerr
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Students, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Students, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Students, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Students and University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Students
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criminal justice debt, monetary sanctions, excessive fines, juvenile justice, legal financial obligations, court debt, fines, fees, restitution

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U Visas for Immigrant Victims of Hate Crimes: A Practice Guide for Advocates

UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2459315
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 27 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2015
Jeanine Braud, Criselda Haro, Olga Tomchin and Jeffrey Selbin
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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U visas, hate crime, immigrants

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High Pain, No Gain: How Juvenile Administrative Fees Harm Low-Income Families in Alameda County, California

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 29 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2017
Alexander Kaplan, Ahmed Lavalais, Tim Kline, Jenna Le, Rachel Draznin-Nagy, Ingrid Rodriguez, Jenny van der Heyde, Stephanie Campos-Bui and Jeffrey Selbin
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Students, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Students, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Students, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Students, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Students, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Students, University of California, Berkeley, The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, Students, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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juvenile justice, juvenile delinquency, juvenile fees, juvenile fines, court debt, offender funded justice, legal financial obligations, regressive tax, youth justice, restitution

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California's New Vagrancy Laws: The Growing Enactment and Enforcement of Anti-Homeless Laws in the Golden State (2016 Update)

UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2794386
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 24 Jun 2016
Jeffrey Selbin, Stephanie Campos-Bui, Sasha Feldstein, Marina Fisher and Nathaniel Miller
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, Students, University of California, Berkeley, The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, Students and University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Students
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homeless, criminalization, vagrancy, Jim Crow, anti-Okie, ugly laws, black codes

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Service Delivery, Resource Allocation and Access to Justice: Greiner and Pattanayak and the Research Imperative

122 YALE L.J. ONLINE 45 (2012), NYLS Clinical Research Institute Paper No. 04/2012, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 12-17
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 16 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2012
Jeffrey Selbin, Jeanne Charn, Anthony Victor Alfieri and Stephen Wizner
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Harvard Law School, University of Miami School of Law and Yale Law School
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access to justice, legal services, evidence-based practice

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Legal Aid, Law School Clinics and the Opportunity for Joint Gain

NYLS Clinical Research Institute Paper No. 08/09-3
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 29 Apr 2008
Jeffrey Selbin and Jeanne Charn
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Harvard Law School
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clinic, law school, legal services, clinical legal education

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Poverty Law: United States

International Encyclopedia of Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2d Ed., Forthcoming, NYLS Clinical Research Institute Paper No. 31/2012, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2242275
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 01 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2014
Scott L. Cummings and Jeffrey Selbin
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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access to justice, antipoverty, civil Gideon, globalization, inequality, legal aid, legal services, poverty, poverty law, poverty lawyers, pro bono, rights revolution, war on poverty, welfare reform, welfare state

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Poverty Law, Policy, and Practice (2d Ed, 2021)

Poverty Law, Policy, and Practice, Wolter Kluwers Law & Business (2d Ed, 2021)
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 08 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2020
Juliet Brodie, Clare Pastore, Ezra Rosser and Jeffrey Selbin
Stanford Law School, USC Gould School of Law, American University - Washington College of Law and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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poverty law, law and poverty, access to justice, antipoverty law

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Veterans Discharge Upgrade Manual

UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2347209
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 30 Oct 2013
Laura Keay, Kathryn Cahoy and Jeffrey Selbin
Yale University - Law School, Yale University - Law School and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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veterans, veterans benefits, disharge upgrade, veterans affairs, PTSD

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Does Sit-Lie Work: Will Berkeley's 'Measure S' Increase Economic Activity and Improve Services to Homeless People?

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 23 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2014
Joseph Cooter, Ericka Meanor, Emily Soli and Jeffrey Selbin
Independent, Independent, Independent and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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Criminalization of homelessness, vagrancy, sit lie, homeless people, Measure S

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Measuring Law School Clinics

92 Tulane L. Rev. 547 (2018), UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2017-27
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 07 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2018
Colleen F. Shanahan, Jeffrey Selbin, Alyx Mark and Anna E. Carpenter
Columbia University - Law School, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Wesleyan University Dept. of Government and The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
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access to justice, law school clinics, legal education, empirical research, representation

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Access to Evidence: How an Evidence-Based Delivery System Can Improve Legal Aid for Low- and Moderate-Income Americans

Center for American Progress, June 2011, NYLS Clinical Research Institute Paper No. 11/12 #14
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 22 Jun 2011
Jeffrey Selbin, Josh Rosenthal and Jeanne Charn
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, National Immigration Law Center and Harvard Law School
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access to justice, legal services, clinical legal education

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The Obamacare Opportunity: Implementing the Affordable Care Act to Improve Health, Reduce Hardship, and Grow the Economy for All Californians

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 29 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2013
Theresa Cheng, Katherine Adamides, Stephanie Campos-Bui, Jeffrey Selbin, Ann O'Leary and Rey Fuentes
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, The Next Generation and The Next Generation
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Obamacare, Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, food stamps, horizontal integration, poverty

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The Diversity Imperative Revisited: Racial and Gender Inclusion in Clinical Law Faculty

26 Clinical L. Rev. 127 (2019), Rutgers Law School Research Paper
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 25 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2019
Deborah N. Archer, Caitlin Barry, G.S. Hans, Derrick Howard, Derrick Howard, Alexis Karteron, Shobha Mahadev and Jeffrey Selbin
New York University School of Law, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, Cornell Law School, Valparaiso University Law SchoolValparaiso University Law School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School, Northwestern University - Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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Who Pays? Fines, Fees, Bail, and the Cost of Courts

Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 644
Number of pages: 223 Posted: 25 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2020
Judith Resnik, Anna VanCleave, Kristen Bell, Jeffrey Selbin, Skylar Albertson, Natalia Friedlander, Illyana Green and Michael Morse
Yale University - Law School, University of Connecticut - School of Law, Yale University - Law School, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Independent, Yale University, Law School, Students, Yale University, Law School, Students and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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debt, fines, fees, bail, courts, due process, risk assessment, proportionality, equality, general revenue, financing, user fees

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The Clinic Lab Office

Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 1, 2013, NYLS Clinical Research Institute Paper No. 28/2013, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2229976
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 08 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 24 May 2014
Jeanne Charn and Jeffrey Selbin
Harvard Law School and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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law school clinics, legal services, access to justice, evidence-based practice, civil justice research

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Money and Punishment, Circa 2020

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 336 Posted: 12 Oct 2020
Anna VanCleave, Brian Highsmith, Brian Highsmith, Judith Resnik, Jeffrey Selbin, Lisa Foster, Hannah Duncan, Stephanie Garlock and Molly Petchenik
University of Connecticut - School of Law, Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest LawHarvard University, Department of Government, Yale University - Law School, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Fines & Fees Justice Center, Yale University - Law School, Yale University, Law School and Yale University, Law School
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court debt, monetary sanctions, fines, fees, court assessments, legal financial obligations, economic injustice, poverty, race, gender, criminalization, driver’s licenses, courts, equal protection, due process, user fees, public finance

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Ability to Pay

Number of pages: 250 Posted: 03 Jun 2019
Judith Resnik, Anna VanCleave, Alexandra Harrington, Lisa Foster, Jeffrey Selbin, Faith Barksdale, Alexandra Eynon, Stephanie Garlock and Daniel Phillips
Yale University - Law School, University of Connecticut - School of Law, University at Buffalo Law School, Fines & Fees Justice Center, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Yale University, Law School, Students, Yale University, Law School, Students, Yale University, Law School and Yale University, Law School, Students
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court debt, court-based data sets, fines, fees, bail, court assessments, legal financial obligations, economic injustice, poverty, race, gender, criminalization, driver’s licenses, courts, data privacy, privatization, equal protection, due process, user fees, online dispute resolution, federal and s

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A Waiting Room of Their Own: The Family Care Network as a Model for Providing Gender-Specific Legal Services to Women With HIV

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy, Vol. 5, 1998
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 21 Sep 2007
Jeffrey Selbin and Mark Del Monte
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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HIV, Legal Services Delivery, Poverty, Health

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Financial Costs for Youth and Their Families in the Alameda County Juvenile Justice System: A Guide for Advocates

UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2448484
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 12 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2014
Anna Kastner, Samantha Reed and Jeffrey Selbin
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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juvenile justice, youth, fines, fees, resititution, poverty

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Model Fair Debt Buying Practices Act

UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2403061
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 02 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2015
Rachel Berkness, Margaret Dreschel, Logan Talbot and Jeffrey Selbin
University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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debt collection, debt buyers, frivolous lawsuits, consumer protection, CFPB, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

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Blood from a Turnip: Money as Punishment in Idaho

57 Idaho Law Review 767 (2021)
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 10 May 2021 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2021
Jeffrey Selbin, Gus Tupper and Cristina Mendez
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Policy Advocacy Clinic and Policy Advocacy Clinic
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fines and fees, monetary sanctions, court debt, abolition, Ferguson, wealth extraction, juvenile justice

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Juvenile Fee Abolition in California: Early Lessons and Challenges for the Debt Free Justice Movement

North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 98, 2020, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 25 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2020
Jeffrey Selbin
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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juvenile justice, fines and fees, abolition, criminal justice reform, criminal debt, monetary sanctions, legal financial obligations

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Fee Abolition and the Promise of Debt-Free Justice for Young People and Their Families in California

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 08 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2019
Stephanie Campos-Bui and Jeffrey Selbin
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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fines and fees, criminal justice reform, juvenile justice, criminal justice debt, monetary sanctions, excessive fines, legal financial obligations, court debt, abolition

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Eleanor Swift's Indelible Public Interest Legacy at Berkeley Law

California Law Review, Vol. 105, 2017, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 16 Mar 2017
Jeffrey Selbin
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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Eleanor Swift, Berkeley Law, Boalt Hall, public interest, social justice, clinical education