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Category : Consumer protection
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
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Legal Problems of the Poor
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Consumer protection
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
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Poor Justice
Author: Vicki LensPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199355444
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book provides a vivid portrait of how the lives of poor people are affected by the judicial system. Drawing from ethnographic observations, court decisions, and other materials, Poor Justice brings readers inside the courts, telling the story through the words and actions of the judges, lawyers, and ordinary people who populate it.
Law and Poverty
Author: Frank MungerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351154184
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Socio-legal research on the legal experiences of the poor reflects an understanding of the close connection between economic inequality and law. The first two parts of this volume illustrate general analytical approaches to law and poverty. The remaining parts include essays which examine more specific issues such as race and gender, access to law, legal consciousness and social change. Research on the relationships between poverty, inequality and governance still leaves many questions unanswered but the work presented here reflects the important contribution that sociolegal research makes to the ongoing debate.
Poverty: a Legal Problem
Author: Thayalan MuniandyPublisher:
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Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Poor Seek Justice
Author: Legal Services Program (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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The Law of the Poor
Author: Jacobus TenBroekPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
A series of papers presented at a conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Law and Society of the University of California. Taken together, these articles give a critical review of the law as applied to the poor, especially in the field of welfare. The first group of articles deals with general and recurrent problems in the law as it affects the poor. Subjects addressed included welfare administration and the abridgment of privacy rights, the discretion of welfare administrators, vagrancy laws, and residence tests applied to the poor. Later articles deal with special problems such as housing, family law, legal services, the physically disabled, the mentally handicapped and health services, perceptions of cultural behavior patterns as "caused" by poverty, and involvement of law schools in poverty related law.
Legal Problems Peculiar to the Poor
Author: Geoffrey C. HazardPublisher:
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Category : Legal aid
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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The Poor Seek Justice
Author: United States. Economic Opportunity OfficePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Poverty and the International Economic Legal System
Author: Krista Nadakavukaren ScheferPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107032741
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Looking beyond development, this volume examines international trade, investment and finance law with a focus on poverty.
Poverty Law and Legal Activism
Author: Adam GeareyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351364936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Linking critical legal thinking to constitutional scholarship and a practical tradition of US lawyering that is orientated around anti-poverty activism, this book offers an original, revisionist account of contemporary jurisprudence, legal theory and legal activism. The book argues that we need to think in terms of a much broader inheritance for critical legal thinking that derives from the social ethics of the progressive era, new left understandings of "creative democracy" and radical theology. To this end, it puts jurisprudence and legal theory in touch with recent scholarship on the American left and, indeed, with attempts to recover the legacies of progressive era thinking, the civil rights struggle and the Great Society. Focusing on the theory and practice of poverty law in the period stretching from the mid-1960s to the present day, the book argues that at the heart of both critical and liberal thinking is an understanding of the lawyer as an ethical actor: inspired by faith or politics to appreciate the potential and limits of law in the struggle against economic inequality.