Author: A HousemanPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Poverty advocacy & legal services in late '80s
Author: A HousemanLegal Services to the Poor and Disavantaged in the 1980's
Author: Alan W. HousemanPublisher:
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Category : Legal assistance to the poor
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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The Poverty Law Canon
Author: Ezra RosserPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472121979
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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The Poverty Law Canon takes readers into the lives of the clients and lawyers who brought critical poverty law cases in the United States. These cases involved attempts to establish the right to basic necessities, as well as efforts to ensure dignified treatment of welfare recipients and to halt administrative attacks on federal program benefit levels. They also confronted government efforts to constrict access to justice, due process, and rights to counsel in child support and consumer cases, social welfare programs, and public housing. By exploring the personal narratives that gave rise to these lawsuits as well as the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the Supreme Court, the text locates these cases within the social dynamics that shaped the course of litigation. Noted legal scholars explain the legal precedent created by each case and set the case within its historical and political context in a way that will assist students and advocates in poverty-related disciplines in their understanding of the implications of these cases for contemporary public policy decisions in poverty programs. Whether the focus is on the clients, on the lawyers, or on the justices, the stories in The Poverty Law Canon illuminate the central legal themes in federal poverty law of the late 20th century and the role that racial and economic stereotyping plays in shaping American law.
Defending the Right to a Home
Author: Beth Ellen HarrisPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Examining the influence of legal professionals on the dynamics of state policy making, this work looks at the responses of poverty lawyers to attempts by US Congress and state legislatures to dismantle social welfare programmes and to straitjacket law reform activities in the 1980s and 1990s.
Advocates for the Poor
Author: Richard M. PiousPublisher:
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Category : Legal aid
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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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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Representing the Poor
Author: Mark Neal AaronsonPublisher: Quid Pro Books
ISBN: 1610278623
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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An extended, multifaceted case study of a kind not much found in the literature on social cause lawyering. The narrative highlights the forceful presence of California Governor Ronald Reagan and the pivotal role in representing the welfare poor of Ralph Santiago Abascal, a government-funded legal aid attorney and social reform leader. To fight Reagan’s ambitious welfare policy initiatives, Abascal with other legal services lawyers effected meaningful legal change. In joint cause with recipient-led welfare rights organizations, he relied on court litigation not in isolation but as part of an overall strategy that also involved legislative and administrative actions. The empirical landscape of this book is the contentious political and legal battle over California welfare reform in the early 1970s. Within the context of American pluralism and constitutionalism, and from an analytical perspective, this study examines the professional and institutional character of group legal representation for the poor as a strategy for political empowerment and social change. While grounded in political and legal history, the study’s conceptual approaches primarily draw on ideas from political science and theory about political representation, and from writings in legal ethics and legal education on professional role responsibilities in the legal representation of people and the groups they are a part of. These principal thematic points emerge, and are supported by prodigious empirical research, experience, and theory: (1) Social cause lawyering is a systemic necessity for the democratic and equitable functioning of our governing institutions; (2) the client constraints on the role of lawyers for groups or causes have more to do conceptually with understandings about the nature of representation than the applicability of ethical or procedural rules; and (3) the political consequences of such legal advocacy are variable and potentially contradictory. Exploring these dilemmas through the story of anti-poverty representation and reform, the author provides a meaningful context to consider the legal representation of the poor beyond mere lawsuits, legal doctrine, and the ubiquitous popular image of the "welfare queen." The book also features an extended, fascinating, and telling interview with then-Governor Reagan about his plans for welfare reform and the roadblocks and stories he encountered along the way. This new book develops the research and theory first documented in the author's much-cited but formally unpublished Berkeley doctoral dissertation, entitled "Legal Advocacy and Welfare Reform: Continuity and Change in Public Relief" (1975), which is now finally readily available worldwide--in this extensive revision and fresh look at the seismic changes to welfare systems and conceptions of poverty that began in the 1970s.
Poverty Law Today
Author: Research on Legal Services for the Poor and Disadvantaged
Author: Bryant G. GarthPublisher:
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Category : Legal aid
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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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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