Rationing Justice

Poverty Lawyers and Poor People in the Deep South

By: Kris Shepard

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Established in 1964, the federal Legal Services Program (later, Corporation) served a vast group of Americans desperately in need of legal counsel: the poor. In Rationing Justice, Kris Shepard looks at this pioneering program's effect on the Deep South, as the poor made tangible gains in cases involving federal, state, and local social programs, low-income housing, consumer rights, domestic relations, and civil rights.
While poverty lawyers, Shepard reveals, did not by themselves create a legal revolution in the South, they did force southern politicians, policy makers, businessmen, and law enforcement officials to recognize that they could not ignore the legal rights of low-income citizens. Having survived for four decades, America's legal services program has adapted to ever-changing political realities, including slashed budgets and severe restrictions on poverty law practice adopted by the Republican-led Congress of the mid-1990s. With its account of the relationship between poverty lawyers and their clients, and their interaction with legal, political, and social structures, Rationing Justice speaks poignantly to the possibility of justice for all in America.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Prologue	p. 1
A "New Breed of Lawyer"	p. 16
The Lawyers' War on Poverty, 1965-1970	p. 37
The Lean Years, 1970-1975	p. 68
"Equal Access to Justice": LSC and the Expansion of Legal Services in the Deep South, 1975-1981	p. 102
Low-Income Families, Poverty Lawyers, and the Regulatory State	p. 132
Low-Income Communities, Poverty Lawyers, and Racial Reconstruction	p. 178
Poverty Law, Politics, and the Rationing of Justice, 1981-1996	p. 224
Appendix: Political Support for the Legal Services Corporation	p. 245
Abbreviations	p. 255
Notes	p. 257
Selected Bibliography	p. 351
Index	p. 379
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