Our Publications

Daniel A. Collier, Dan Fitzpatrick, Chloe Fann, Frederick Engram, Carol Bruzzano, Mecca Keyes, Informing Trust: PSLF Online Communities Fill Communication Gaps (2024). [video showcase of report]

Student Loan Law Initiative, The Department of Education's "Waiver" Authority and Financial Hardship (Jan. 30, 2024).

Daniel A. Collier, Dan Fitzpatrick, Chloe Fann, Frederick Engram, Carol Bruzzano, and Mecca Keyes, Dub Thee, The Forgiven: A Qualitative Exploration of What Achieving Forgiveness Through PSLF Means to Borrowers (2024). [video showcase of report]

Daniel A. Collier, Dan Fitzpatrick, Chloe Fann, Frederick Engram, Carol Bruzzano, and Mecca Keyes, Pause and Effect: Examining the Dynamics of the Student Loan Pause and the Challenge of Resuming Payments for Public Service Loan Forgiveness Borrowers (2024). [video showcase of report]

Sultana Fouzia, Dalié Jiménez, and Jonathan Glater, Student Loans in California: A Narrative of Racial Inequality (2023).

Sultana Fouzia, Marshall Steinbaum, Dalié Jiménez, and Jonathan Glater, Financial Hardship Among Student Borrowers (2023).

Dalié Jiménez, Jonathan Glater, and Sultana Fouzia, Student Loan Payment Pause: Assessing Financial Distress in California (2023).

Charlie Eaton, Jonathan Glater, Laura Hamilton & Dalié Jiménez, Creditor Colleges: Canceling Debts that Surged during COVID-19 for Low-Income Students (2022).

Daniel A. Collier & Dan Fitzpatrick, Jubilee and Jubilation: An Examination of the Relationship between Public Service Loan Forgiveness and Measures of Well-Being (2022).

Kate Bulger & Doug Lewis, Memorandum: Income Share Agreements and the DFPI (2021).

Marshal Lawler & Michelle Dold, Memorandum: For-Profit Schools as Covered Persons under the CFPA, (2021).

John R. Brooks, Revisiting Relief for the Taxation of Student Loan Discharge and Cancellation (2021).

Kate Sablosky Elengold & Jonathan Glater, The Sovereign Shield, (2021).

Mike Pierce, Revisiting Relief for Borrowers Working in Public Service (2021).

Robyn Smith, Revisiting Relief for Students Harmed by School Closures (2021).

Bethany Lilly & John Whitelaw, Revisiting Relief for Borrowers with Disabilities (2021).

Claire Torchiana & Winston Berkman-Breen, Revisiting Relief for Borrowers who Fall Through the Cracks in Discharge Programs (2021).

Persis Yu, Revisiting Relief for Borrowers Waiting for Income Driven Repayment (2021).

Eileen M. Connor, Revisiting Relief for Borrowers with a Defense to Repayment (2021).

Persis Yu, Relief for Borrowers in Income-Driven Repayment (2020).

Matthew A. Bruckner, The Forgotten Stewards of Higher Education Quality, 11 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 1 (2020).

Eileen Connor & Toby Merrill, Relief for Borrowers with a Defense to Repayment (2020).

Deanne Loonin, Illusory Due Process: The Broken Student Loan Hearing System, 11 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 173 (2020).

Alan White, The Contract State, Program Failure, and Congressional Intent: The Case of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, 11 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 255 (2020).

Creola Johnson, Relief for Student Loan Borrowers Victimized by “Relief” Companies Masquerading as Legitimate Help, 11 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 105 (2020).

Michael Pierce & Rebecca Maurer, Relief for Public Service Workers (2020).

John Whitelaw & Bethany Lilly, Relief for Borrowers with Disabilities (2020).

Robyn Smith, Relief for Borrowers Whose Schools Closed (2020).

Dalié Jiménez & Jonathan Glater, Student Debt is a Civil Rights Issue: The Case for Debt Relief and Higher Education Reform, 55 C.L. L. Rev. (Forthcoming).

Ashley Harrington & Mark Huelsman, Introduction: The Urgency and Equity of Student Debt Cancellation (2020).

John R. Brooks, The Tax Treatment of Student Loan Discharge and Cancellation (2020).

Prentiss Cox, Judith Fox & Stacey Tutt, Forgotten Borrowers: Protecting Private Student Loan Borrowers Through State Law, 11 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 43 (2020).

Rye Salerno & Erik Manukyan, Relief for Borrowers with a Disqualifying Status (2020).

Michael Saunders, Relief for Servicemembers and Veterans (2020).

David S. Rubenstein, State Regulation of Federal Contractors: Three Puzzles of Procurement Preemption, 11 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 207 (2020).

Dalié Jiménez, Testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law (2019).

Jonathan Glater, The Sequential Movement Challenge of Higher Education Access, 5 Belmont L. Rev. 1 (2018).

Jonathan Glater, Law and the Conundrum of Higher Education Quality, 51 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1211 (2018).

Alexei Alexandrov & Dalié Jiménez, Lessons from Bankruptcy Reform in the Private Student Loan Market, 11 Harv. L. & Pol'y Rev. 175 (2017).

Jonathan Glater, Student Debt and Higher Education Risk, 103 Cal. L. Rev. 1561 (2015).

Xiaoling Ang & Dalié Jiménez, Private Student Loans and Bankruptcy: Did Four-Year Undergraduates Benefit from the Increased Collectability of Student Loans, in Student Loans and the Dynamics of Debt 175 (2015).

Jonathan Glater, Student Debt and the Siren Song of Systemic Risk (UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 85, 2015).

Jonathan Glater, The Unsupportable Cost of Variable Pricing of Student Loans, 70 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 2137 (2013).

Jonathan Glater, The Other Big Test: Why Congress Should Allow College Students to Borrow More Through Federal Aid Programs, 14 NYU J. Legis. & Pub. Pol'y (2011).

Jonathan Glater, A Broad View of Access, 39 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 759 (2006).