Negotiating Justice: Progressive Lawyering, Low-Income Clients, and the Quest for Social Change - Couverture rigide

Shdaimah, Corey S.

 
9780814740545: Negotiating Justice: Progressive Lawyering, Low-Income Clients, and the Quest for Social Change
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0814740545 ISBN 13 : 9780814740545
Editeur : New York University Press, 2009

Synopsis

While many young people become lawyers for the big bucks, others are motivated by the pursuit of social justice, seeking to help people for whom legal services are financially, socially, or politically inaccessible. These progressive lawyers often bring a considerable degree of idealism to their work, and many leave the field due to insurmountable red tape and spiraling disillusionment. But what about those who stay? And what do their clients think? Negotiating Justice explores how progressive lawyers and their clients negotiate the dissonance between personal idealism and the realities of a system that doesn't often champion the rights of the poor.
Corey S. Shdaimah draws on over fifty interviews with urban legal service lawyers and their clients to provide readers with a compelling behind-the-scenes look at how different notions of practice can present significant barriers for both clients and lawyers working with limited resources, often within a legal system that many view as fundamentally unequal or hostile. Through consideration of the central themes of progressive lawyering--autonomy, collaboration, transformation, and social change--Shdaimah presents a subtle and complex tableau of the concessions both lawyers and clients often have to make as they navigate the murky and resistant terrains of the legal system and their wider pursuits of justice and power.

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À propos de l?auteur

Corey S. Shdaimah is Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, School of Social Work.

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Éditeur
New York University Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0814740545
ISBN 13 
9780814740545
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
242
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0814708692 ISBN 13 :  9780814708699
Editeur : New York University Press, 2011
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