Dear RSF:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please join us on Wednesday, March 27, at 11:00 in the\nlibrary for a presentation by Tonya Brito entitled \u201cAccess\nto Justice in Family Court.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brito is the Jefferson Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law at the\nUniversity of Wisconsin Law School and a Faculty Affiliate with the Institute for Research on Poverty<\/a> (IRP)\nat the University of Wisconsin. She served as Associate Dean for Research\nand Faculty Development from 2014-2016 and as Director of the Institute for Legal Studies<\/a> from\n2013-2016. Brito’s work critically examines the intersection of family\nlaw and poverty law, focusing on how the welfare state regulates the family\nrelationships of the poor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Brito’s publications in this area include \u201cWhat We Talk\nAbout When We Talk About Matriarchy<\/a>\u201d (Michigan State Law Review<\/em>,\n2013), <\/em>which examines and compares the legal treatment and gender\ndynamics of both poor and middle-class families experiencing financial hardship\nin economic downturns, and \u201cFathers\nBehind Bars: Rethinking Child Support Policy Towards Low-Income\nNoncustodial Fathers and their Families<\/a>\u201d (Iowa Journal of Gender,\nRace & Justice<\/em>, 2012).<\/p>\n\n\n\n During her time at the Foundation, Brito is synthesizing and writing up the findings from her five-year qualitative socio-legal study.\u00a0 This study, \u201cAccess to Justice for Low-Income Civil Litigants: A Comparative Study of How Lawyers and More Limited Forms of Legal Assistance Matter in Child Support Enforcement Proceedings,\u201d explores the challenges faced by low-income defendants in Wisconsin and Illinois who owe unpaid child support and cannot afford attorney representation within the family court system. \u00a0For further background on the project, please click here<\/a> for the Life of the Law<\/em> podcast to hear her discuss details.\u00a0 Her segment starts at approximately 11:55. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Brito received a J.D. from Harvard and A.B. in Political Science from Barnard College. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear RSF: Please join us on Wednesday, March 27, at 11:00 in the library for a presentation by Tonya Brito entitled \u201cAccess to Justice in Family Court.\u201d Brito is the Jefferson Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and a Faculty Affiliate with the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the… Read More Seminar, Wednesday, Mar 27: Tonya Brito<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46193801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wednesday-seminars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rsfintranet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Tonya_B.jpg?fit=430%2C280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11532,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530\/revisions\/11532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}