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Opening Address For The Seventh Annual Stein Center Symposium On Contemporary Urban Challenges, Peter Edelman
Opening Address For The Seventh Annual Stein Center Symposium On Contemporary Urban Challenges, Peter Edelman
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This article is a published version of the opening address of Peter Edelman at the Seventh Annual Stein Center Symposium on Contemporary Urban Challenges, which identifies the challenges in lawyering to the poor and proposes approaches for lawyers to reduce poverty. Peter Edelman's speech challenges the private Bar to take on greater responsibility in helping to formulate policy that will work to eradicate the plight of the poor, calls for greater lawyer involvement in policy adaptation and implementation, identifies new roles that lawyers can and should play in helping to build and strengthen community institutions, and maintains that community building …
Lawyering For Poor Communities In The Twenty-First Century, Matthew Diller
Lawyering For Poor Communities In The Twenty-First Century, Matthew Diller
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Symposium focuses on a renewed focus on community lawyering. Finding new ways to work with and engage poor communities is among the most important pieces of any new agenda for poverty law. By focusing on the goal of building community institutions and organizations, poverty lawyers can help poor communities in a number of vital ways. First, they can help communities create structures for the provision of services that government has failed to provide. Thus, poverty lawyers can provide much needed legal representation in the establishment of community-based housing, health care, day care and other programs that meet vital needs. …