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A Right to Live
Gordon, Linda | March 7, 1994 issue

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This article critically appraises the book "Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-1973," by Martha F. Davis. One of Davis's strengths is her understanding that advocacy law makes an impact only in combination with social movements. Welfare lawyering was driven by the welfare rights movement, which reached considerable strength in the, late 1960s. Davis's story becomes most gripping when she talks about legal strategies, because she makes it possible for non-lawyers to understand legal creativity.

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BRUTAL Need (Book); DAVIS, Martha F.; SOCIAL psychology; LAWYERS; BOOKS & reading; CRITICISM
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