Women and justice for the poor : a history of legal aid, 1863-1945 /
"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&...
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2015
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| Series: | Studies in legal history
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Table of Contents:
- 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, 1921-1945
- 5. Constellations of justice
- 6. Compromises