Authors
- Karen O'Connor
- Lee Epstein
Dewey code: 349.73025
List Price: $106.95
Price: $106.95
Review Public Interest Law Groups: Institutional Profiles (Greenwood Reference Volumes on American Public Policy Formation) / Greenwood Press:In recent years, public interest law has shifted from an exclusive interest in the expansion of rights in such areas as consumer protection, environmental law, and discrimination to a parallel concern with seeking limits to freedoms and rights in both the public and private sector. In addition, public interest law firms have introduced diversified litigation strategies that were uncommon even a decade ago. This volume is the only comprehensive work to reflect these recent changes in the complexion and strategies of public interest litigation. Following an introduction describing the major shifts that have occurred in public advocacy, the authors present over 300 profiles of firms, groups, and organizations that litigate in behalf of the public interest and/or use the courts to achieve policy ends. Organizations surveyed include groups that focus on the protection of special interests, rights, or resources and those that offer legal aid in diverse areas, as well as legal organizations such as the American Bar Association. Among the areas of concern are the advancement of science in the public interest, conservation, consumer interests, abortion, constitutional and civil rights, and the rights of groups ranging from the elderly, women, children, and the handicapped to American Indians and other minorities. Additional groups and significant public interest cases are listed at the end of the book. An important source of information for those wishing more data on a particular group or the scope of today's public interest litigation, this book is recommended for legal, public, and academic library reference collections.
Publication date: 1993-11
List Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00
Review The 1993/94 Directory of Legal Aid and Defender Offices in the United States and Territories / Natl Legal Aid & Defenders Assn:
Authors
- American Bar Association National Conference on Access to Justice
Publication date: 1991-09
Dewey code: 347.73017
List Price: $29.95
Price: $29.95
Review Civil Justice: An Agenda for the 1990s : Papers of the American Bar Association National Conference on Access to Justice in the 1990S, New Orleans, / Amer Bar Assn:
Publication date: 1989-01
Dewey code: 347.7101709
List Price: $119.95
Price: $119.95
Review Legal Aid in Canada (Canadian Studies, Vol 2) / Edwin Mellen Pr:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-11-08
Dewey code: 341.2422
List Price: $141.00
Price: $140.99
Review General Principles of European Community Law (European Monographs, Vol 24) / Kluwer Law International:This text is based on a selection of papers presented at the Conference in Malm, Sweden, which was organized by the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies in co-operation with the Faculty of Law of the University of Lund. The purpose of the conference was to analyze general principles and their scope in the EU legal order with special emphasis on their role in the creation of a jus commune europaeum. The impact of the general principles of Community Law at the national level was analyzed and also how these principles have been transformed into the national legal systems. Also discussed was the creative process behind the shaping and further development of the general principles and their application. Due to their complex nature, the general principles offer a more or less unlimited field for theoretical legal studies. At the same time, the general principles play a very important role in legal practice, not least when used as instruments for the protection of individuals and firms against too far-reaching measures taken by the European institutions or Member States.
Publication date: 1990-09
Dewey code: 347.4209
Price: $84.95
Review Community Law Centres: A Critical Appraisal / Avebury:
Publication date: 1987-05-21
Dewey code: 347.7317
Price: $107.95
Review Legal Services for the Poor: A Comparative and Contemporary Analysis of Interorganizational Politics (Studies in Social Welfare Policies and Programs) / Greenwood Press:Nearly 200 interviews with legal services lawyers and administrators, bar association officers, judges, and political officials form the basis for this book on the delivery of civil legal services to the poor. Beginning with a brief history of legal assistance programs, Kessler examines the operation of five local programs funded by the national Legal Services Corporation. The activities of poverty lawyers in urban, rural, and suburban settings are described and analyzed and the author offers an explanation for variables in service based on the constraints imposed by the interorganizational environment. The implications of his findings are examined from the perspective of existing theories of organizational behavior, the system's potential for effecting political and legal reform, and current political debates surrounding the future of the Legal Services Corporation.
Publication date: 1990-10
Dewey code: 344.7303258
Price: $42.50
Review The Poor in Court: The Legal Services Program and Supreme Court Decision Making / Princeton Univ Pr:Focusing on the Supreme Court as an integral part of the policy-making process, Susan Lawrence examines how a change in who has access to the Court, and the nature of the institutions that structure that access, has affected its agenda setting and doctrinal development. In her analysis of cases sponsored by the Legal Services Program (LSP) before the Supreme Court during the 1966 through 1974 terms, she explores the effect of this agency in creating a voice for the poor in the judicial policy-making process. The Court's response to cases presented by the LSP-as exemplified in its decisions to invalidate residency requirements for welfare recipients (Shapiro v. Thompson, 1969) but uphold maximum family grants (Dandridge v. Williams, 1970)-is described as emerging from a timely combination of new litigant claims, available legal bases, and judicial values and role conceptions, all of which were shaped by the political climate of the era. Lawrence convincingly argues that litigation before the Court is a powerful method of political participation for the disadvantaged.
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