Poverty Law and Legal Activism: Lives That Slide Out of View

ISBN-13: 9780367862664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 210 str.

Adam Gearey

Opis

Linking critical legal thinking to constitutional scholarship and a practical tradition of US lawyering that is orientated around anti-poverty activism, this book offers an original, revisionist account of contemporary jurisprudence, legal theory and legal activism.

Spis treści

1 Lives That Slide Out of View 2 Something Happening: Activism and the Problem of the ‘White Ally’ 3 Come Together One More Time: Poverty and Critical Legal Studies 4 The Poor and the Constitution 5 Reification and the Consciousness of the Welfare Poor 6 I must make something of myself: Conscience, Anxiety and ‘Being With’ the Poor 7 Theory in the Key of Life: The Anxiety of the Poverty Lawyer 8 A Long Way to Nowhere: Remembering the Movement 9 Diving For Dear Life: Poverty Law and The Broken Middle 10 Kick Out the Jams: Poverty and Critical Legal Theory

O autorze

Adam Gearey is Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, University Of London