Women and Justice for the Poor: A History of Legal Aid, 1863-1945

Law › Legal History

Women and Justice for the Poor: A History of Legal Aid, 1863-1945

By Felice Batlan
Cambridge University Press April 2015

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781107446410
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
April 2015
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.S. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Also available as

Hardback

Details

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 demonstrates that nineteenth-century women's organizations first offered legal aid to the poor and that middle-class women functioning as lay lawyers, provided such assistance.

Felice Batlan illustrates that by the early twentieth century, male lawyers founded their own legal aid societies. These new legal aid lawyers created an imagined history of legal aid and a blueprint for its future in which women played no role and their accomplishments were intentionally omitted.

In response, women social workers offered harsh criticisms of legal aid leaders and developed a more robust social work model of legal aid. These different models produced conflicting understandings of expertise, professionalism, the rule of law, and ultimately, the meaning of justice for the poor.

Table of Contents

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.
HKD 365.69 −3%
HKD 377.00

Inclusive of HK delivery

Ready to ship
Delivery Time: around 4-5 weeks
Extra 10 working days if shipping address outside Hong Kong
  • Free HK shipping over HK$1,000
  • International shipping to 35+ countries
Order Form
Save

Recommended

You may also be interested in these books:

More titles from Legal History

View all
An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy
Yale University Press

An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy

Christian R Burset
HKD 731.50
Common Law and Natural Law in America: From the Puritans to the Legal Realists
Cambridge University Press

Common Law and Natural Law in America: From the Puritans to the Legal Realists

Andrew Forsyth
HKD 1,374.49
Envy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Ancient Athens
Oxford University Press

Envy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Ancient Athens

Esther Eidinow
HKD 1,702.35
Judges and Convicts: The Principles and Patterns of Criminal Sentencing in Victorian England
Routledge

Judges and Convicts: The Principles and Patterns of Criminal Sentencing in Victorian England

Victor Bailey
HKD 491.66
Russia, the Soviet Union, and Imperial Continuity in International Law
Oxford University Press

Russia, the Soviet Union, and Imperial Continuity in International Law

Lauri Malksoo
HKD 1,261.00
"Trash," Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century Germany
Cambridge University Press

"Trash," Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century Germany

Kara L. Ritzheimer
HKD 1,197.95