The Poverty Law Canon: Exploring the Major Cases

by Marie Failinger, Marie A. Failinger, Ezra Rosser

Book Overview

The Poverty Law Canon takes readers into the lives of the 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 program benefit levels. They also confronted government efforts to constrict access to justice, due process, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472053159
• ISBN13: 9780472053155
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"