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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.

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“The contributors include some of the best academics who writeand teach about poverty. The 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

The Poverty Law Canon

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    A Hardback by Ezra Rosser, Ezra Rosser


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      Publisher: LUP - University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: 7/27/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472073153, 978-0472073153
      ISBN10: 047207315X
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      Poverty and precarity

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      “The contributors include some of the best academics who writeand teach about poverty. The 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

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