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Ron Hochbaum聽joined the faculty at the 糖心vlog McGeorge School of Law in 2021. He directs the Law School鈥檚聽聽and teaches Poverty Law.聽聽

Before joining the faculty at McGeorge, Professor Hochbaum was an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of the District of Columbia聽David A. Clarke School of Law.聽At UDC, Professor Hochbaum聽directed聽its聽Housing and Consumer Law Clinic聽in which students represented housed and unhoused District residents in efforts to access and maintain healthy, safe, and affordable housing.聽He also聽served as a clinical聽teaching fellow at both Loyola University Chicago and Cornell University. In Loyola鈥檚 Health Justice Project,聽Professor Hochbaum聽taught lawyering skills to students in the context of a medical-legal partnership with Erie Family Health Center.聽At Loyola, he also taught Access to Health Care, a seminar exploring the legal, political, social and environmental issues surrounding health equity in the United States. As a Clinical Teaching Fellow in the Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic at Cornell Law School, Professor Hochbaum developed a unique experiential opportunity for students to conduct legal outreach to farm workers in California鈥檚 Central Valley. As part of the program, he established a partnership between Cornell Law School and the United Farm Workers.聽

In practice, Professor Hochbaum worked first as a Staff Attorney and then a Supervising Attorney at the Homeless Action Center in Berkeley and Oakland, California. At the Homeless Action Center, he represented聽unhoused聽and mentally ill clients in claims for public benefits. His representation included holistic and barrier-free services聽that employed聽housing first and harm reduction principles. He also worked on special projects addressing the criminalization of homelessness. He helped organize the 鈥淣o on Measure S鈥� campaign that prevented sitting on the sidewalk from becoming a misdemeanor offense in the City of Berkeley. Moreover, he served as one of the lead counsel in鈥�Cody et al. v. City of Albany鈥�(3:13-cv-5270), bringing claims alleging the Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights of individuals in a homeless encampment were violated by the municipality鈥檚 targeted enforcement of an anti-camping ordinance.聽

Professor Hochbaum earned a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University鈥檚 School of Industrial and Labor Relations where he received the Clem Miller Scholarship. Upon graduation, he worked as a consultant at the International聽Labour聽Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He earned his Juris Doctor from Villanova University School of Law where he served as the Managing Editor of Outside Articles for the鈥�Villanova Sports and Entertainment Law Journal. Villanova awarded him both the Dorothy Day Award and ALI-ABA Scholarship and Leadership聽Award. After graduating, he clerked for the Honorable Terrence R. Cook of the New Jersey Superior Court.聽

Professor聽Hochbaum鈥檚聽research explores the criminalization of homelessness, situating it at the intersection of scholarship on the criminalization of poverty and critical outsider jurisprudence. His work examines the interplay between the criminalization of poverty and the ever-evolving nature of segregation. In the process, he demonstrates that anti-homeless bias and the intersections of homelessness and race, gender, disability and LGBTQIA+ identity drive our expanding definition of crime and the effort to equate homelessness with danger and criminality.聽