Poor People's Lawyers in Transition

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Rutgers University Press, 1982 - Law - 273 pages

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Contents

Lawyers Work Problems
17
The Decline of Reform
34
Becoming a Legal Aid Lawyer
51
Copyright

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About the author (1982)

Jack Katz Professor of Sociology, UCLA Department of Sociology University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551 office phone: (310) 825-6904; FAX: (310) 206 9838 JackKatz@soc.ucla.edu http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/katz EDUCATION: Northwestern University Degree: Ph.D. (Sociology), 1976. University of Chicago Law School Degree: J.D., 1969. Colgate University Degree: B.A., 1966. FACULTY CAREER: Yale Law School, 1977-1979. Research Associate. UCLA, Assistant Professor of Sociology, 1979; Associate Professor, 1982; Professor, 1989. MISCELLANEOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Russell Sage Law and Society Fellow, 1973-1975, Yale Law School. Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 1977-1979; Associate Editor, Symbolic Interaction, 1995-1999; American Sociological Review, 2001-4. Trustee, Law and Society Association, 1984-1986. Consulting for university presses, law and social science journals, defense in death penalty cases. Co-Editor, with Robert Emerson, of "Field Encounters and Discoveries," an ethnographic book series for the University of Chicago Press. TEACHING SPECIALIZATIONS: Social Interaction and Phenomenology; Ethnographic Methods; Urban Sociology.

Bibliographic information

TitlePoor People's Lawyers in Transition
Crime, law, and deviance series
orig req no
AuthorJack Katz
PublisherRutgers University Press, 1982
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedOct 27, 2008
ISBN0813509432, 9780813509433
Length273 pages
Subjects › 

Law / Civil Procedure
Law / Legal Services
  
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