Histories Of Legal Aid

Author : Felice Batlan,Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030802714

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Histories of Legal Aid by Felice Batlan,Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen Pdf

This book focuses on the history of the provision of legal aid and legal assistance to the poor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in eight different countries. It is the first such book to bring together historical work on legal aid in a comparative perspective, and allows readers to analogise and contrast historical narratives about free legal aid across countries. Legal aid developed as a result of industrialisation, urbanization, immigration, the rise of philanthropy, and what were viewed as new legal problems. Closely related, was the growing professionalisation of lawyers and the question of what duties lawyers owed society to perform free work. Yet, legal aid providers in many countries included lay women and men, leading at times to tensions with the bar. Furthermore, legal aid often became deeply politicized, creating dramatic conflicts concerning the rights of the poor to have equal access to justice.

Author : Felice Batlan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107084537

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Women and Justice for the Poor by Felice Batlan Pdf

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 details the history of the origins and development of free legal aid for the poor in the United States.

Author : Jim Newton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1594482705

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Justice for All by Jim Newton Pdf

One of the most acclaimed and best political biographies of its time, Justice for All is a monumental work dedicated to a complicated and principled figure that will become a seminal work of twentieth-century U.S. history. In Justice for All, Jim Newton, an award-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, brings readers the first truly comprehensive consideration of Earl Warren, the politician-turned-Chief Justice who refashioned the place of the court in American life through landmark Supreme Court cases whose names have entered the common parlance -- Brown v. Board of Education, Griswold v. Connecticut, Miranda v. Arizona, to name just a few. Drawing on unmatched access to government, academic, and private documents pertaining to Warren's life and career, Newton explores a fascinating angle of U.S. Supreme Court history while illuminating both the public and the private Warren.

Author : Earl Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1045 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780313357077

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To Establish Justice for All by Earl Johnson Pdf

For over a century, many have struggled to turn the Constitution's prime goal "to establish Justice" into reality for Americans who cannot afford lawyers through civil legal aid. This book explains how and why. American statesman Sargent Shriver called the Legal Services Program the "most important" of all the War on Poverty programs he started; American Bar Association president Edward Kuhn said its creation was the most important development in the history of the legal profession. Earl Johnson Jr., a former director of the War on Poverty's Legal Services Program, provides a vivid account of the entire history of civil legal aid from its inception in 1876 to the current day. The first to capture the full story of the dramatic, ongoing struggle to bring equal justice to those unable to afford a lawyer, this monumental three-volume work covers the personalities and events leading to a national legal aid movement—and decades later, the federal government's entry into the field, and its creation of a unique institution, an independent Legal Services Corporation, to run the program. The narrative also covers the landmark court victories the attorneys won and the political controversies those cases generated, along with the heated congressional battles over the shape and survival of the Legal Services Corporation. In the final chapters, the author assesses the current state of civil legal aid and its future prospects in the United States.

Author : John MacArthur Maguire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1418171549

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The Lance of Justice; a Semi-centennial History of the Legal Aid Society, 1876-1926 by John MacArthur Maguire Pdf

Author : Olaf Halvorsen Rønning,Ole Hammerslev
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319466842

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Outsourcing Legal Aid in the Nordic Welfare States by Olaf Halvorsen Rønning,Ole Hammerslev Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the differences and similarities between civil legal aid schemes in the Nordic countries whilst outlining recent legal aid transformations in their respective welfare states. Based on in-depth studies of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland, the authors compare these cases with legal aid in Europe and the US to examine whether a single, unique Nordic model exists. Contextualizing Nordic legal aid in relation to welfare ideology and human rights, Hammerslev and Halvorsen Rønning consider whether flaws in the welfare state exist, and how legal aid affects disadvantaged citizens. Concluding that the five countries all have very different legal aid schemes, the authors explore an important general trend: welfare states increasingly outsourcing legal aid to the market and the third sector through both membership organizations and smaller voluntary organizations. A methodical and compassionate text, this book will be of special interest to scholars and students of the criminal justice, the welfare state, and the legal aid system.

Author : Asher Flynn,Jacqueline Hodgson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509900855

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Access to Justice and Legal Aid by Asher Flynn,Jacqueline Hodgson Pdf

This book considers how access to justice is affected by restrictions to legal aid budgets and increasingly prescriptive service guidelines. As common law jurisdictions, England and Wales and Australia, share similar ideals, policies and practices, but they differ in aspects of their legal and political culture, in the nature of the communities they serve and in their approaches to providing access to justice. These jurisdictions thus provide us with different perspectives on what constitutes justice and how we might seek to overcome the burgeoning crisis in unmet legal need. The book fills an important gap in existing scholarship as the first to bring together new empirical and theoretical knowledge examining different responses to legal aid crises both in the domestic and comparative contexts, across criminal, civil and family law. It achieves this by examining the broader social, political, legal, health and welfare impacts of legal aid cuts and prescriptive service guidelines. Across both jurisdictions, this work suggests that it is the most vulnerable groups who lose out in the way the law now operates in the twenty-first century. This book is essential reading for academics, students, practitioners and policymakers interested in criminal and civil justice, access to justice, the provision of legal assistance and legal aid.

Author : Christopher Moore
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0802041272

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The Law Society of Upper Canada and Ontario's Lawyers, 1797-1997 by Christopher Moore Pdf

It is an authoritative and lively history of the Law Society of Upper Canada and of Ontario's lawyers, from the founding of the Society by ten lawyers in 1797, to the crises which shook the society and the legal profession in the mid-1990s.

Author : Sara Mayeux
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781469656038

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Free Justice by Sara Mayeux Pdf

Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the government for those who cannot afford private counsel. Though often taken for granted, the modern American public defender has a surprisingly contentious history--one that offers insights not only about the "carceral state," but also about the contours and compromises of twentieth-century liberalism. First gaining appeal amidst the Progressive Era fervor for court reform, the public defender idea was swiftly quashed by elite corporate lawyers who believed the legal profession should remain independent from the state. Public defenders took hold in some localities but not yet as a nationwide standard. By the 1960s, views had shifted. Gideon v. Wainwright enshrined the right to counsel into law and the legal profession mobilized to expand the ranks of public defenders nationwide. Yet within a few years, lawyers had already diagnosed a "crisis" of underfunded, overworked defenders providing inadequate representation--a crisis that persists today. This book shows how these conditions, often attributed to recent fiscal emergencies, have deep roots, and it chronicles the intertwined histories of constitutional doctrine, big philanthropy, professional in-fighting, and Cold War culture that made public defenders ubiquitous but embattled figures in American courtrooms.

Author : Johannes Rehmke,Benjamin Fossett Lock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1021273708

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Legal Aid for the Poor by Johannes Rehmke,Benjamin Fossett Lock Pdf

Author : N. Y. ). Legal Aid Society (New York
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1011632977

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The Legal Aid Review by N. Y. ). Legal Aid Society (New York Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : CHERYL. MILNE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0433499001

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PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION IN CANADA. by CHERYL. MILNE Pdf

Author : Albert Francis Bigelow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044050777473

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Epitome of Legal Aid History in the United States 1876-1925 by Albert Francis Bigelow Pdf

Author : Tahmina Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735758507

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Legal Heroes by Tahmina Watson Pdf

Author : Fiona Skyring
Publisher : UWA Publishing
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 192140163X

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Justice by Fiona Skyring Pdf

From its beginnings in the early 1970s, the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia has been influential in national campaigns to address the legacies of dispossession and human rights abuses. It continues to play a central role in advocating for measures to address Aboriginal deaths in custody, land rights and stolen generations, not just in WA but as issues of national significance. A lively and multi-dimensional account, Justice: A History of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia shows the human face of some of the nations major social, political and legal reforms of the last four decades. It is the story of people determined to protect and defend the human rights of those Australians whose rights have been routinely abused.