Sara Sternberg Greene

Katherine T. Bartlett Distinguished Professor

School of Law

greene@law.duke.edu

Duke Law School Room 3020, Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

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Selected Publications

The Savings Mirage

Chapter · 2024 Cite

Getting to Home: Collateral Consequences in the Rental Housing Market

Journal Article Duke Law Journal · 2024 Cite

Justice Without Law(yers)?: Race, Class, and the Problem of Informality

Journal Article · 2024 Cite

Centering Fraud

Journal Article · 2024 Cite

Hospitals Suing Patients: How Hospitals Use N.C. Courts to Collect Medical Debt

Report · 2023 Link to item Cite

NC Hospitals Use Deceit to Sue Patients, Take Their Homes

Other Charlotte Observer · 2023 Cite

Credit Scoring Duality

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2022 Link to item Cite

Judging Without a J.D.

Journal Article Columbia Law Review · 2022 Link to item Cite

Looking for Fraud in All the Wrong Places

Journal Article · 2022 Cite

Going Against the Record: How Algorithms Change the Way Landlords Make Exceptions for Bad Background Checks

Journal Article · 2022 Cite

Old, Poor, and Left Behind

Journal Article · 2022 Cite

Broken Bootstraps

Book · 2022 Cite

Courtrooms Where No One Knows the Law

Other Law and Political Economy Project Blog · 2022 Link to item Cite

How to Stop Evictions From Further Ruining Lives

Other The New York Times · 2021 Link to item Cite

Stealing (Identity) from the Poor

Journal Article · 2021 Link to item Cite

Rebooting America: Consumer Protection

Other Duke Law Magazine · 2021 Link to item Cite

Stealing (Identity) From the Poor

Journal Article Minnesota Law Review · 2021 Link to item Cite

Foreword: Fees, Fines, Bail, and the Destitution Pipeline

Journal Article Duke Law Journal · 2020 Link to item Cite

Working to Fail

Journal Article Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy · 2020 Link to item Cite

Bankruptcy Courts Ill-Prepared for Tsunami of People Going Broke From Coronavirus Shutdown

Other The Conversation · 2020 Link to item Cite

How Government Rules Prevent Poor Americans From Saving

Other Politico · 2020 Link to item Cite

Coronavirus, refundable tax credits and the poverty line

Other The Hill · 2020 Link to item Cite

Congress Must Provide Real Aid to People in the Next Stimulus Package

Report · 2020 Link to item Cite

A Theory of Poverty: Legal Immobility

Journal Article Washington University Law Review · 2019 Link to item Cite

The Rainy Day Earned Income Tax Credit: A Reform to Boost Financial Security by Helping Low-Wage Workers Build Emergency Savings

Chapter · 2018 Link to item Cite

Invisible Inequality and the Law

Journal Article · 2018 Cite

The Collateral Consequences of Criminal Charges

Journal Article · 2018 Cite

Cracking the Code: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Bankruptcy Outcomes

Journal Article Minnesota Law Review · 2017 Link to item Cite

The Bootstrap Trap

Journal Article Duke Law Journal · 2017 Link to item Cite

Race, Class, and Access to Civil Justice

Journal Article Iowa Law Review · 2016 Link to item Cite

Why African Americans don’t trust the courts, and why it matters

Journal Article The Marshall Project · 2016 Link to item Cite

Love Your Tax Refund? Here’s a Bipartisan Proposal to Make It Even Better

Other TalkPoverty.org · 2016 Link to item Cite

The Failed Reform: Congressional Crackdown on Repeat Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Filers

Journal Article American Bankruptcy Law Journal · 2015 Link to item Cite

Turning the EITC into an Emergency Savings Tool for Low-Wage Workers

Other The Hill · 2015 Link to item Cite

Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Economic and Cultural Explanations for How Lower-Income Families Manage Debt

Journal Article Social Problems · 2014 Link to item Cite

The Broken Safety Net: A Study on Earned Income Tax Credit Recipients and a Proposal for Repair

Journal Article New York University Law Review · 2013 Link to item Cite

SNAP Food Security In-Depth Interview Study

Report · 2013 Link to item Cite

On the Validity and Vitality of Arizona’s Judicial Merit Selection System: Past, Present, and Future

Journal Article Fordham Urban Law Journal · 2007 Cite