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Flourishing Rights, Wendy A. Bach
Flourishing Rights, Wendy A. Bach
Michigan Law Review
There is something audacious at the heart of Clare Huntington’s Failure to Flourish. She insists that the state exists to ensure that families flourish. Not just that they survive, or not starve, or be able, somehow, to make ends meet—but that they flourish. She demands this not just for some families but, importantly, for all families. This simple, bold, and profoundly countercultural demand allows Huntington to make a tremendously convincing case that the state can begin to do precisely that. Failure to Flourish is a brave, rigorously produced, carefully researched, and politically astute book. Huntington seeks to persuade a wide …
An "Age Of [Im]Possibility": Rhetoric, Welfare Reform, And Poverty, Lisa A. Crooms
An "Age Of [Im]Possibility": Rhetoric, Welfare Reform, And Poverty, Lisa A. Crooms
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Joel F. Handler, The Poverty of Welfare Reform and Mark Robert Rank, Living on the Edge: The Realities of Welfare in America
Poverty Lawyering In The Golden Age, Matthew Diller
Poverty Lawyering In The Golden Age, Matthew Diller
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-1973 by Martha F. Davis
Repossession: Of History, Poverty, And Dissent, Martha Minow
Repossession: Of History, Poverty, And Dissent, Martha Minow
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Dispossessed: America's Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present by Jacqueline Jones
America's Misunderstood Welfare State: Persistent Myths, Enduring Realities, Rachel D. Godsil
America's Misunderstood Welfare State: Persistent Myths, Enduring Realities, Rachel D. Godsil
Michigan Law Review
A Review of America's Misunderstood Welfare State: Persistent Myths, Enduring Realities by Theodore R. Marmor, Jerry L. Mashaw, and Philip L. Harvey
Families In Peril, Nellie Pappas
Families In Peril, Nellie Pappas
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Families in Peril by Marian Wright Edelman
The Public Defender, Robert R. Kimball
The Public Defender, Robert R. Kimball
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Public Defender by Lisa J. McIntyre
The Politics Of Welfare: The New York City Experience, Michigan Law Review
The Politics Of Welfare: The New York City Experience, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Politics of Welfare: The New York City Experience by Blanche Bernstein
Poor People's Lawyers In Transition, Michigan Law Review
Poor People's Lawyers In Transition, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Poor People's Lawyers in Transition by Jack Katz
Lawyers And The Pursuit Of Legal Rights, Michigan Law Review
Lawyers And The Pursuit Of Legal Rights, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Lawyers and the Pursuit of Legal Rights by Joel F. Handler, Ellen Jane Hollingsworth and Howard S. Erlanger
Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas Of The Individual In Public Services, Michigan Law Review
Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas Of The Individual In Public Services, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services by Michael Lipsky
Doing Good And Getting Worse: The Dilemma Of Social Policy, Gerald N. Grob
Doing Good And Getting Worse: The Dilemma Of Social Policy, Gerald N. Grob
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Doing Good: The Limits of Benevolence by Willard Gaylin, Ira Glasser, Steven Marcus, and David J. Rothman
Aid To Families With Unborn Dependent Children: May The States Withhold Benefits?, Michigan Law Review
Aid To Families With Unborn Dependent Children: May The States Withhold Benefits?, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
This note will examine whether the duty to provide aid to unborn children should be imposed on all states participating in the AFDC program. It will first consider the argument that denying such benefits violates the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment, but the bulk of the note will be devoted to an interpretation of the relevant provisions of the Social Security Act. The statutory analysis requires several steps. First, it is necessary to examine and interpret the cases in which the Supreme Court has analyzed the legitimacy of state-imposed eligibility conditions. The focus will then shift to the …
Law Of The Poor, Neil M. Levy
Law Of The Poor, Neil M. Levy
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Law of the Poor by Arthur B. La France, Milton R. Schroeder, Robert W. Bennett, and William E. Boyd
The Constitutional Minimum For The Termination Of Welfare Benefits: The Need For And Requirements Of A Prior Hearing, Michigan Law Review
The Constitutional Minimum For The Termination Of Welfare Benefits: The Need For And Requirements Of A Prior Hearing, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Recently state welfare officials in New York terminated the benefits of a welfare recipient on the basis of an erroneous tip from her landlady that her husband visited her every night. She requested a posttermination hearing which was provided under New York law. During the four-month delay between the termination of benefits and the hearing, the recipient and her four small children were evicted from their apartment for nonpayment of rent. They were forced to move in with the woman's sister, who had nine children of her own, and who was also on relief. The recipient's children lost weight and …
Representation For The Poor In Federal Rulemaking, Arthur Earl Bonfield
Representation For The Poor In Federal Rulemaking, Arthur Earl Bonfield
Michigan Law Review
The ample personal economic resources and relatively well-financed organizations of middle and upper income Americans usually assure their particular interests adequate representation in federal administrative rulemaking. The norm is that middle and upper income individuals, or their personal or organizational representatives, directly or indirectly monitor all agency activities. These persons attempt to protect their interests through formal or informal participation in rulemaking affecting them. But federal rulemaking very frequently affects large numbers of individuals who lack the personal economic resources and organized associations of middle and upper income Americans. These economically underprivileged persons are usually unable to keep themselves adequately …
Hospital Emergency Service And The Open Door, Leonard S. Powers
Hospital Emergency Service And The Open Door, Leonard S. Powers
Michigan Law Review
This Article will focus on the emerging duty of hospital emergency rooms to treat patients seeking their aid.
Slumlordism As A Tort--A Brief Response, Joseph L. Sax
Slumlordism As A Tort--A Brief Response, Joseph L. Sax
Michigan Law Review
Professors Blum and Dunham begin their comment by accusing us of having a new idea. We plead guilty. Our purpose was to demonstrate that accepted principles in analogous areas of law would support a slumlordism action, not to argue that tort law as presently applied would do so. Indeed, our basic intent was to underscore the myopia of existing tort law perspectives.
Slumlordism As A Tort--A Dissenting View, Walter J. Blum, Allison Dunham
Slumlordism As A Tort--A Dissenting View, Walter J. Blum, Allison Dunham
Michigan Law Review
The persistence of substandard housing in urban centers stands as a challenge to law. There is a pressing need to re-examine whether prevailing legal doctrines are adequate for dealing with the problem and to suggest new doctrines where the old are found wanting. To their great credit, Joseph L. Sax and Fred J. Hiestand in their article "Slumlordism as a Tort" face up to these tasks boldly and vigorously. They conclude that, under existing conditions, it is imprudent to rely on public authorities to enforce housing codes and it is unlikely that legislatures will place sufficient enforcement powers in private …
Legal Aid--Lay Control And Organizational Complexity Render Oeo Legal Service Program Unacceptable To New York Court--In Re Community Action For Legal Services, Inc., Michigan Law Review
Legal Aid--Lay Control And Organizational Complexity Render Oeo Legal Service Program Unacceptable To New York Court--In Re Community Action For Legal Services, Inc., Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) and the New York City Council Against Poverty approved the organization and the OEO funding of three legal service corporations as part of a comprehensive program to provide legal assistance to New York City's poor. According to the plan, the first corporation, Community Action for Legal Services, Inc. (CALS), was to approve proposed plans for setting up and operating neighborhood law offices with OEO funds and then to supervise and coordinate the agencies that sought to put those plans into operation. These agencies, operating as delegates of CALS, and under subcontracts with it, were …
Book Reviews, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin D. Dickinson
Book Reviews, Edson R. Sunderland, Edwin D. Dickinson
Michigan Law Review
Unless lawyers are an unimaginative and hopelessly backward-looking social group, as some unkind critics have asserted, they will find this book one of he most suggestive and stimulating contributions to legal literature that has appeared in recent years. It touches in a broad way the whole field of the relation of legal institutions and the legal profession to the major problems of society. It demonstr4tes in a most striking manner how those who plan and administer the machinery of the law must awake to the fact that they form the front line of civilization's defense against anarchy. And it presents …