Poverty law and legal activism: lives that slide out of view
Gearey, Adam (2018) Poverty law and legal activism: lives that slide out of view. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138556058.
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Abstract
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. The book argues that we need to think in terms of a much broader inheritance for critical legal thinking that derives from the social ethics of the progressive era, new left understandings of ‘creative democracy’ and radical theology. To this end, it puts jurisprudence and legal theory in touch with recent scholarship on the American left; and, indeed, with attempts to recover the legacies of progressive era thinking, the civil rights struggle and the Great Society. Focusing on the theory and practice of poverty law in the period stretching from the mid-1960s to the present day, it argues that at the heart of both critical and liberal thinking is an understanding of the lawyer as an ethical actor: inspired by faith or politics to appreciate the potential and limits of law in the struggle against economic inequality.
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| Item Type: | Book |
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| Additional Information: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge. |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Law School |
| Depositing User: | Adam Gearey |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jun 2019 13:52 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:43 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/23055 |
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