Women and Justice for the Poor - A History of Legal Aid, 18631945

Zusatztext Advance praise: 'In a remarkably original social/legal history! Batlan is asking readers to rethink what lawyering has meant and could mean. And when you ask 'outside the box' questions! you come up with surprising answers. This book can help us understand why law today can be far from justice.' Linda Gordon! Florence Kelley Professor of History! New York University Informationen zum Autor Felice Batlan is Professor of Law and Associate Dean at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law. Her groundbreaking work, which explores interactions between law, gender, history, and the legal profession, has appeared in numerous law reviews, history journals, and anthologies. She is a book review editor for Law and History Review and was an associate editor of the Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court and Continuity and Change. She has served as an New York University Golieb Fellow, a Hurst Fellow, a Freehling Fellow, and received the CCWH/Berkshire Women's History Dissertation Award. Klappentext This book details the history of the origins and development of free legal aid for the poor in the United States. Zusammenfassung This book re-examines fundamental assumptions about the American legal profession and the boundaries between 'professional' lawyers! 'lay' lawyers! and social workers. Putting legal history and women's history in dialogue! it details the history of the origins and development of free legal aid for the poor in the United States. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. A Female Dominion of Legal Aid, 1863-1910: 1. The origins of legal aid; 2. The Chicago experience: the maturation of women's legal aid; Part II. The Professionalization of Legal Aid, 1890-1921: 3. Of immigrants, sailors, and servants: the Legal Aid Society of New York; 4. Reinventing legal aid; Part III. Dialogues: Lawyers and Social Workers, 1921-45: 5. Constellations of justice; 6. Compromises; Conclusion....

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• Authors: Felice Batlan, Felice (Illinois Institute of Technology) Batlan, Batlan Felice
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.04.2015
• EAN: 9781107446410
• ISBN: 978-1-107-44641-0
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Studies in Legal History; Studies in Legal History
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; LAW / Legal History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Legal History, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Legal systems: costs and funding