Sara Sternberg Greene

Forthcoming

The Savings Mirage, in Law and the 100-Year Life (Abbe Gluck & Anne Alstott eds., forthcoming)

Works in Progress

Centering Fraud (January 1, 2024)
Justice Without Law(yers)?: Race, Class, and the Problem of Informality (January 1, 2024) (with Guy Charles)
Getting to Home: Collateral Consequences in the Rental Housing Market (January 1, 2022) (with others)
Going Against the Record: How Algorithms Change the Way Landlords Make Exceptions for Bad Background Checks (January 1, 2022) (with others)

Articles & Essays

Hospitals Suing Patients: How Hospitals Use N.C. Courts to Collect Medical Debt (2023) (with others)
Credit Scoring Duality, 85 Law and Contemporary Problems 101-122 (2022) (with Pamela Foohey)
Judging Without a J.D., 122 Columbia Law Review 1287-1388 (2022) (with Kristen M. Renberg)
Stealing (Identity) From the Poor, 106 Minnesota Law Review 59-124 (2021)
Congress Must Provide Real Aid to People in the Next Stimulus Package (2020) (with Pamela Foohey)
Foreword: Fees, Fines, Bail, and the Destitution Pipeline, 69 Duke Law Journal 1463-1472 (2020) (with others)
Working to Fail, 27 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 167-178 (2020)
A Theory of Poverty: Legal Immobility, 96 Washington University Law Review 753-801 (2019)
The Rainy Day Earned Income Tax Credit: A Reform to Boost Financial Security by Helping Low-Wage Workers Build Emergency Savings , 4 RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 161-176 (Anti-Poverty Policy Initiatives for the United States 2018) (with others)
Cracking the Code: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Bankruptcy Outcomes, 101 Minnesota Law Review 1031-1098 (2017) (with Parina Patel & Katherine M. Porter)
The Bootstrap Trap, 67 Duke Law Journal 233-311 (2017)
Race, Class, and Access to Civil Justice, 101 Iowa Law Review 1234-1322 (2016)
The Failed Reform: Congressional Crackdown on Repeat Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Filers, 89 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 241 (2015)
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Economic and Cultural Explanations for How Lower-Income Families Manage Debt, 61 Social Problems 1-21 (2014) (with Laura M. Tach)
SNAP Food Security In-Depth Interview Study (2013) (with others)
The Broken Safety Net: A Study on Earned Income Tax Credit Recipients and a Proposal for Repair, 88 New York University Law Review 515-588 (2013)
On the Validity and Vitality of Arizona’s Judicial Merit Selection System: Past, Present, and Future, 34 Fordham Urban Law Journal 239-263 (2007) (with others)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Duke Law Researchers: NC Hospitals Use Deceit to Sue Patients, Take Their Homes, Charlotte Observer (November 9, 2023) (with Barak Richman)
Courtrooms Where No One Knows the Law, Law and Political Economy Project Blog (June 22, 2022)
How to Stop Evictions From Further Ruining Lives , The New York Times (January 8, 2021, Sec. A at 23) (A version of this article appears in digital edition on Jan 7, 2021 with the title: Losing a Home Because of the Pandemic Is Hard Enough. How Long Should It Haunt You?) (with Barbara Kiviat)
Rebooting America: Consumer Protection, 40 Duke Law Magazine (January 1, 2021)
How Government Rules Prevent Poor Americans From Saving, Politico (September 3, 2020) (with Pamela Foohey)
Coronavirus, refundable tax credits and the poverty line, The Hill (July 9, 2020) (with Lawrence Zelenak)
Bankruptcy Courts Ill-Prepared for Tsunami of People Going Broke From Coronavirus Shutdown, The Conversation (May 13, 2020) (with others)
Love Your Tax Refund? Here’s a Bipartisan Proposal to Make It Even Better, TalkPoverty.org (May 5, 2016) (with others)
Why African Americans don’t trust the courts, and why it matters, The Marshall Project (February 11, 2016) (reprinted in Newsweek (02/12/2016) as Why Don't the Poor Trust Justice? Blame O.J. Simpson)
Turning the EITC into an Emergency Savings Tool for Low-Wage Workers, The Hill (July 30, 2015) (with others)

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