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The Ladies' Health Protective Association: Lay Lawyers And Urban Cause Lawyering, Felice Batlan Jun 2015

The Ladies' Health Protective Association: Lay Lawyers And Urban Cause Lawyering, Felice Batlan

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By examining the LHPA, this Article seeks, however modestly, to extend the Hurstian project. The Article argues that the LHPA, composed of a group of middle-class women interacting with their environment, neighbors, the courts, private businesses, and city and state officials, on a deeply local and quotidian basis, had a significant impact in shaping a multitude of New York City laws and law had a profound affect in creating and molding the work and identity of the organization.


Symposium: Union And States' Rights: Secession, 150 Years After Sumter, Preface, Neil H. Cogan Jun 2015

Symposium: Union And States' Rights: Secession, 150 Years After Sumter, Preface, Neil H. Cogan

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A preface to the four papers presented at the Annual Meeting of the Section on Legal History, American Association of Law Schools, held on January 7, 2011, in San Francisco.