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Full-Text Articles in Law
Alinsky's Prescription: Democracy Alongside Law, Barbara L. Bezdek
Alinsky's Prescription: Democracy Alongside Law, Barbara L. Bezdek
Barbara L Bezdek
This Article examines the import of the life’s work of Saul Alinsky—arguably the most prominent founder of contemporary organizing—to the content and methodologies of today’s legal education. I review the community organizing theory and practice of Saul Alinsky for its synergies and lessons on two approaches by legal theorists and educators working in law schools today — “community lawyering” and “social justice”education. These approaches embrace the special responsibility of the legal profession for the quality of justice in society[1] by extending the traditional conceptions of lawyers’ relationships with clients in ways that are informed by the insights of community organizers, …
Language Matters: Designing State And County Contracts For Services Under Temporary Assistance For Needy Families, Eileen Sweeney, Barbara L. Bezdek, Sharon Parrott, Carol W. Medaris, Cary Lacheen
Language Matters: Designing State And County Contracts For Services Under Temporary Assistance For Needy Families, Eileen Sweeney, Barbara L. Bezdek, Sharon Parrott, Carol W. Medaris, Cary Lacheen
Barbara L Bezdek
No abstract provided.
Reconstructing A Pedagogy Of Responsibility, Barbara Bezdek
Reconstructing A Pedagogy Of Responsibility, Barbara Bezdek
Barbara L Bezdek
No abstract provided.
To Attain “The Just Rewards Of So Much Struggle”: Local-Resident Equity Participation In Urban Revitalization, Barbara Bezdek
To Attain “The Just Rewards Of So Much Struggle”: Local-Resident Equity Participation In Urban Revitalization, Barbara Bezdek
Barbara L Bezdek
Annually, Americans pour out their sympathy for people displaced from their communities by natural disasters such as fires, floods, and hurricanes. We respond, knowing the anchor that the concept of “home” supplies to body, soul, and family; we intuit the toll exacted by the loss of familiar walls, private homes and community-shared places. Yet, redevelopment policy and practice in the U.S. today relies upon the massive relocation of poor people and the destruction of poor people’s neighborhoods with only token recognition of the costs and burdens imposed on the displaced. Although the devastation of community, family, and lives is just …
To Forge New Hammers Of Justice: Deep-Six The Doing-Teaching Dichotomy And Embrace The Dialectic Of "Doing Theory", Barbara L. Bezdek
To Forge New Hammers Of Justice: Deep-Six The Doing-Teaching Dichotomy And Embrace The Dialectic Of "Doing Theory", Barbara L. Bezdek
Barbara L Bezdek
This essay argues that the teaching-doing tightrope bemoaned among clinicians, while posing real tensions, is overdrawn. The asserted dichotomy is between the demands of teaching legal theory and of doing daily law practice for clients enmeshed in poverty. The dichotomy is misleading because the development of transformative legal theory arises repeatedly on the front lines of client work, and interdependently with the works of attentive scholars. Two bellwether cases, Goldberg v. Kelly and Javins v. First National Realty, illustrate the vital interdependence of justice-seeking scholarship and justice-serving representation of clients in challenging the reigning structure of legal rules and constraining …
Reflections On The Practice Of A Theory: Law, Teaching, And Social Change, Barbara L. Bezdek
Reflections On The Practice Of A Theory: Law, Teaching, And Social Change, Barbara L. Bezdek
Barbara L Bezdek
No abstract provided.
Clinical Programs Of The University Of Maryland School Of Law, Barbara L. Bezdek
Clinical Programs Of The University Of Maryland School Of Law, Barbara L. Bezdek
Barbara L Bezdek
The University of Maryland provides 'clinical education' in two distinct ways, through its Clinical Law Office, and through its Legal Theory and Practice courses. For many years the Law School has operated The Clinical Law Office, one of the largest and longest-lived 'in-house' clinics in any law school in the United States. Students may elect to enroll in this course in the upper years of the law degree program. It is a year-long, intensive practice experience, under faculty supervision. Quite recently, the Law Faculty began the Legal Theory and Practice courses, which combine the study of doctrine and legal theory …
The Cuny Law Program: Integration Of Doctrine, Practice & Theory In The Preparation Of Lawyers, Barbara L. Bezdek
The Cuny Law Program: Integration Of Doctrine, Practice & Theory In The Preparation Of Lawyers, Barbara L. Bezdek
Barbara L Bezdek
The CUNY Law Program differs markedly from every other law school in the United States. Founded in 1983, at a great, diverse, public university sprawling across New York City, its curriculum emerged from the Law School's mandate to rethink the traditional law school curriculum and develop approaches oriented toward public interest and public service law, with emphasis on clinical teaching methods. In this paper, the author provides a concrete description of the CUNY Program, and articulates the principles expressed by CUNY's extensive redesign of typical American legal education. Since it began in 1983, the CUNY Law Program has been the …
Silence In The Court: Participation And Subordination Of Poor Tenants' Voices In Legal Process, Barbara L. Bezdek
Silence In The Court: Participation And Subordination Of Poor Tenants' Voices In Legal Process, Barbara L. Bezdek
Barbara L Bezdek
No abstract provided.
"Legal Theory And Practice" Development At The University Of Maryland: One Teacher's Experience In Programmatic Context, Barbara Bezdek
"Legal Theory And Practice" Development At The University Of Maryland: One Teacher's Experience In Programmatic Context, Barbara Bezdek
Barbara L Bezdek
No abstract provided.
Contractual Welfare: Non-Accountability And Diminished Democracy In Local Government Contracts For Welfare-To-Work Services, Barbara L. Bezdek
Contractual Welfare: Non-Accountability And Diminished Democracy In Local Government Contracts For Welfare-To-Work Services, Barbara L. Bezdek
Barbara L Bezdek
No abstract provided.
Putting Community Equity In Community Development: Resident Equity Participation In Urban Redevelopment, Barbara Bezdek
Putting Community Equity In Community Development: Resident Equity Participation In Urban Redevelopment, Barbara Bezdek
Barbara L Bezdek
The special concern of this paper is to recalibrate the benefits and burdens of public-private partnerships as they remake inner city neighborhoods, by braking the rate at which urban land is being reclaimed from low-wealth residents by local government practices to disperse occupants, sweeping aside their tangible and intangible capital. Public oversight requirements have not kept pace with the dispossession, yet the costs that these development decisions impose on the social fabric of communities rend the shared networks necessary to residents’ abilities to meet basic social needs. This destruction of low-wealth communities is a form of equity-stripping, produced by local …