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4 Nw. J. L. & Soc. Pol'y 1 (2009)

handle is hein.journals/nwjlsopo4 and id is 1 raw text is: Copyright 2009 by Northwestern University School of Law Volume 4 (Winter 2009) Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy Biographies of Article Contributors Forty Years of Welfare Policy Experimentation: No Acres, No Mule, No Politics, No Rights Julie Nice is the incoming Herbst Foundation Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco School of Law and the outgoing Delaney Professor of Law at the University of Denver. Her scholarly research focuses on constitutional law, particularly investigating the interaction between equality and liberty and examining the relationship between constitutional rights and social movements. She focuses much of her work on discrimination still staunchly defended, especially that based on poverty and/or sexuality. She is lead author of POVERTY LAW: THEORY AND PRACTICE, which is widely adopted at law schools across the United States. Professor Nice has twice been designated as Research Professor, and also has received eight awards for her law teaching, including the University's William T. Driscoll Master Educator Award and the University's Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award. She has taught as a Visiting Professor at University of Michigan Law School and University of Connecticut School of Law. Professor Nice received her undergraduate and law degrees from Northwestern University. She began her teaching career as a Clinical Fellow at Northwestern University School of Law. Prior to this, she was a public interest trial lawyer at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago. Changing the Subject: From Welfare to Poverty to a Living Income Peter Edelman is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and poverty law. On the faculty since 1982, he has also served in all three branches of government. During President Clinton's first term, he was Counselor to HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and then Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Professor Edelman has been Associate Dean of the Law Center, Director of the New York State Division for Youth, and Vice President of the University of Massachusetts. He was a Legislative Assistant to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Issues Director for Senator Edward Kennedy's 1980 Presidential campaign. Prior to working for RFK, he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg and before that for Judge Henry J. Friendly on the U.S. Court of Appeals. He has written extensively on poverty, constitutional law, and children and youth. His book, SEARCHING FOR AMERICA'S HEART: RFK AND THE RENEWAL OF HOPE, is available in paperback from Georgetown University Press. He is currently chair of the District of Columbia Access to Justice Commission, recently co-chaired a blue-ribbon Task Force on Poverty for the Center for American Progress, and is board chair of the Public Welfare Foundation and the National Center for Youth Law. He graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. What Works Is Work: Welfare Reform and Poverty Reduction Ron Haskins is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and senior consultant at the Annie E. Casey Foundation in

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