Professors Ariel Jurow Kleiman and Clare Pastore hosted the 2026 Poverty Law Conference: Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Community in a Time of Attacks on the Vulnerable on February 20-21, 2026, at USC.

The panels were as follows:

1. The Rent is Too Damn High: Topics in Housing Affordability
2. Courts, Rights & Access to Justice
3. Healthcare Under Assault
4. Local Public Finance, Local Power
5. Work, Labor & Economic Margins
6. The Collateral Consequences of Vulnerability in the Criminal System
7. Taxes, Estate Planning & Economic Dignity
8. Invisible People, Invisible Data, and Vulnerability
9. Teaching Innovative Immigration Advocacy in Tumultuous Times
10. Supporting Women and Children
11. Creative Poverty Lawyering
12. Building, Bolstering, and Dismantling the Safety Net
13. Can’t Buy Me Justice: The Real Cost of Financial Sanctions
14. Teaching about Homelessness
15. Gaps and Disparities in Safety Net Design
16. Street Medicine & the Law: Challenges & Opportunities
17. Scholarly Approaches to Understanding Poverty and Inequality

Thank you to Mira Dalpe and Angela Houff for their work making the conference possible.