Sara Sternberg Greene

Duke University School of Law

Professor of Law

210 Science Drive

Box 90362

Durham, NC 27708

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

13

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2,882

SSRN CITATIONS

7

CROSSREF CITATIONS

2

Scholarly Papers (13)

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Judging Without a J.D.

122 Columbia L. Rev. 1287 (2022), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2022-23
Number of pages: 102 Posted: 06 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2022
Sara Sternberg Greene and Kristen Renberg
Duke University School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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civil procedure, access to justice, judges, lawyers, courts, state courts, poverty law, eviction, criminal law, criminal procedure

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Credit Scoring Duality

85 Law and Contemporary Problems 101 (2022), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2022-03, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 676
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 28 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2022
Pamela Foohey and Sara Sternberg Greene
Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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credit report, credit scoring, renting, employment, consumer credit, racial disparities, alternative data, poverty, socio-economic class

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A Theory of Poverty: Legal Immobility

Washington University Law Review, Forthcoming, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2018-25
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 15 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2019
Sara Sternberg Greene
Duke University School of Law
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inequality, poverty law, criminalization of poverty, local and state law

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Cracking the Code: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Bankruptcy Outcomes

101 Minnesota Law Review 1031 (2017), UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2016-46, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2016-49
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 16 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2018
Sara Sternberg Greene, Parina Patel and Katherine M. Porter
Duke University School of Law, Georgetown University and University of California - Irvine School of Law
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consumer bankruptcy, empirical legal studies, race, insolvency, reorganization, chapter 13, personal bankruptcy, individual bankruptcy

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The Broken Safety Net: A Study of Earned Income Tax Credit Recipients and a Proposal for Repair

New York University Law Review, May 2013, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 23 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2015
Sara Sternberg Greene
Duke University School of Law
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Earned Income Tax Credit, EITC, Credit Cards

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Stealing (Identity) From the Poor

106 Minnesota Law Review 59 (2021), Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 106, No. 59, 2021, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2021-17
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 19 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2022
Sara Sternberg Greene
Duke University School of Law
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inequality, poverty law, cybersecurity, privacy law

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Race, Class, and Access to Civil Justice

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 101, p. 1263, 2016, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2017-3
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 10 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2017
Sara Sternberg Greene
Duke University School of Law
Downloads 229 (228,892)
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access to justice

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'Robbing Peter to Pay Paul': Economic and Cultural Explanations for How Lower-Income Families Manage Debt

Social Problems, Vol. 61, Issue 1, pp. 1–21
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 27 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2014
Laura Tach and Sara Sternberg Greene
Harvard University - Department of Sociology and Duke University School of Law
Downloads 138 (355,455)
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financial behavior; debt; economic mobility; economic coping strategies; qualitative methods

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Foreword: Fees, Fines, Bail, and the Destitution Pipeline

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 69, No. 7, 2020, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2020-33
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 04 Jun 2020
Brandon L. Garrett, Sara Sternberg Greene and Marin K. Levy
Duke University School of Law, Duke University School of Law and Duke University School of Law
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Courts, Fees, Bail

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The Bootstrap Trap

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 67, No. 2, 2017, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2018-15
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 06 Nov 2019
Sara Sternberg Greene
Duke University School of Law
Downloads 98 (456,416)
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consumer bankruptcy, inequality, poverty, consumer law

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Hospitals Suing Patients: How Hospitals Use North Carolina Courts to Collect Medical Debt

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2023-49
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 24 Aug 2023
Barak D. Richman, Sara Sternberg Greene, Sean Chen and Julie Havlak
Duke University School of Law, Duke University School of Law, Duke University School of Law and North Carolina Office of State Treasurer
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Medical Debt, Nonprofit Hospitals, Default Judgments

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The Failed Reform: Congressional Crackdown on Repeat Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Filers

89 THE AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY L. J. 241 (2015), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2016-3
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 08 Nov 2015
Sara Sternberg Greene
Duke University School of Law
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Bankruptcy, Chapter 13, Refilers

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Working to Fail

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy, Vol. 27, No. 167, 2020
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 22 Mar 2021
Sara Sternberg Greene
Duke University School of Law
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gender law, poverty law, law and inequality, employment law