Increasingly, clinic faculty in diverse settings engage in empirical research related to their clinical work. This research can have several functions in furthering the mission of a clinic: enhancing the delivery of legal services or promoting economic and social justice; demonstrating the need for proposed legal or policy reforms; testing assumptions about the way courts works; examining the way we approach our students, our profession and the development of clinical teachers. The Bellow Scholars program recognizes and supports the work of clinicians who have embarked on such projects. The current Bellow Scholars will present updates on their work:
Adele Bernhard, Pace University School of Law
M. Chris Fabricant, Pace University School of Law
The Impact of CompStat-Based 'Zero Tolerance' Policing on Low-Income Communities of Color, an empirical study of the impact of so-called "zero tolerance policing" on a small subsection of the South Bronx.
Judith L. Fox, Notre Dame Law School
Debt Collection: A Survey of Indiana Courts, a study undertaken in response to the FTC's 2009 report concluding that the nation's system of resolving disputes about consumer debt "is broken."
Linda E. Fisher, Seton Hall University School of Law
The Links Between the Foreclosure Process and Vacant & Abandoned Urban Properties, a study of the "ripple effects" of the foreclosure crisis in Newark, NJ, and in particular the social costs of abandoned properties in low-income neighborhoods.
Michael J. Robinson-Dorn, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Scott A. Schumacher, University of Washington School of Law
Carroll Seron, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine School of Law
Fellow Travelers, a systematic study of clinical teaching fellowships