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10%OFFCorey S. Shdaimah - Negotiating Justice - 9780814708699 - V9780814708699
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Negotiating Justice

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Description for Negotiating Justice Paperback. An analysis of how notions of practice can inhibit urban legal service lawyers and their clients' pursuit of justice in the American legal system Num Pages: 239 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 328.

While many young people become lawyers for the big bucks, others are motivated by the pursuit of social justice, seeking to help people for whom legal services are financially, socially, or politically inaccessible. These progressive lawyers often bring a considerable degree of idealism to their work, and many leave the field due to insurmountable red tape and spiraling disillusionment. But what about those who stay? And what do their clients think? Negotiating Justice explores how progressive lawyers and their clients negotiate the dissonance between personal idealism and the realities of a system that doesn’t often champion the rights of the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
Number of Pages
239
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814708699
SKU
V9780814708699
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99-50

About Corey S. Shdaimah
Corey S. Shdaimah is Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, School of Social Work.

Reviews for Negotiating Justice
The book, as a whole, will be a terrific resource for students who would like to leaven their academic scholarship with insights gained from observations, surveys and interviews at a real legal clinic.
City Limits Weekly
. . . the power of theNegotiating Justicelies in its efforts to broaden the way in which we often think about the ... Read more

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