The Poverty Law Canon by Ezra Rosser
Takes readers into the lives of 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 programme benefit levels.
“The contributors include some of the best academics who writeand teach about povertyThe back stories of these cases aremultidimensionally interesting—the clients, the legal strategies, thelawyers themselves, the historical and political context, the effect on thelaw, the backstage of the Supreme Court and the role of the law clerks.” - Peter Edelman, Georgetown University Law Center
Marie A. Failinger is Professor of Law, Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Ezra Rosser is Professor of Law at the American University, Washington College of Law
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| ISBN 13 | 9780472053155 |
| ISBN 10 | 0472053159 |
| Title | The Poverty Law Canon |
| Author | Marie A Failinger |
| Series | Class: Culture |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Michigan Press |
| Year published | 2016-07-30 |
| Number of pages | 277 |
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