Author: Robert B. McKayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Rationing of Justice
Author: Robert B. McKayRationing Justice
Author: Kris ShepardPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807149020
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Established in 1964, the federal Legal Services Program (later, Corporation) served a vast group of Americans desperately in need of legal counsel: the poor. In Rationing Justice, Kris Shepard looks at this pioneering program's effect on the Deep South, as the poor made tangible gains in cases involving federal, state, and local social programs, low-income housing, consumer rights, domestic relations, and civil rights. While poverty lawyers, Shepard reveals, did not by themselves create a legal revolution in the South, they did force southern politicians, policy makers, businessmen, and law enforcement officials to recognize that they could not ignore the legal rights of low-income citizens. Having survived for four decades, America's legal services program has adapted to ever-changing political realities, including slashed budgets and severe restrictions on poverty law practice adopted by the Republican-led Congress of the mid-1990s. With its account of the relationship between poverty lawyers and their clients, and their interaction with legal, political, and social structures, Rationing Justice speaks poignantly to the possibility of justice for all in America.
The Rationing of Justice
Author: Arnold S. TrebachPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal investigation
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Rationing Justice
Author: Kris ShepardPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807132074
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
"Established in 1964, the federal Legal Services Program (later, Corporation) served a vast group of Americans desperately in need of legal counsel: the poor. At the program's zenith in 1981, more than 1,450 offices employing six thousand attorneys and three thousand paralegals worked to aid those who could not afford private attorneys. In Rationing Justice, Kris Shepard looks at this pioneering program's effect on the Deep South."--BOOK JACKET.
Rationing Justice
Author: Thomas EhrlichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legal aid
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Rationing the Constitution
Author: Andrew CoanPublisher:
ISBN: 0674986954
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The Supreme Court is a tiny institution that can resolve only a fraction of the constitutional issues generated by the American government. This simple yet startling fact is impossible to deny, but few students of the Court have seriously considered its implications. In Rationing the Constitution, Andrew Coan explains how the Court's limited capacity shapes U.S. constitutional law and argues that the limits of judicial capacity powerfully constrain Supreme Court decision-making on many of the most important constitutional questions, spanning federalism, separation of powers, and individual rights. Examples include the commerce power, presidential powers, Equal Protection, and regulatory takings. The implications for U.S. constitutional law are profound. Lawyers, academics, and social activists pursuing social reform through the courts must consider whether their goals can be accomplished within the constraints of judicial capacity.--
Rationing Health Care in America
Author: Larry R. ChurchillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Rationing Justice
Author: Louise Palmer FortmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legal aid
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Rationing Justice on Appeal
Author: Thomas E. BakerRationing Justice
Author: Kris ShepardPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807134163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Established in 1964, the federal Legal Services Program (later, Corporation) served a vast group of Americans desperately in need of legal counsel: the poor. In Rationing Justice, Kris Shepard looks at this pioneering program's effect on the Deep South, as the poor made tangible gains in cases involving federal, state, and local social programs, low-income housing, consumer rights, domestic relations, and civil rights. While poverty lawyers, Shepard reveals, did not by themselves create a legal revolution in the South, they did force southern politicians, policy makers, businessmen, and law enforcement officials to recognize that they could not ignore the legal rights of low-income citizens. Having survived for four decades, America's legal services program has adapted to ever-changing political realities, including slashed budgets and severe restrictions on poverty law practice adopted by the Republican-led Congress of the mid-1990s. With its account of the relationship between poverty lawyers and their clients, and their interaction with legal, political, and social structures, Rationing Justice speaks poignantly to the possibility of justice for all in America.