Poverty Law 101: The Law and History of the U.S. Welfare State

Authors

Karen M. Tani, University of California Berkeley School of Law

Keywords

poverty law, social welfare law, Wax

Abstract

Poverty law will remain marginalized so long as we confine it to a population that we and our students understand as marginal. Tani discusses Professor Wax’s characterization of the “old welfare law framework,” as well as her account of what happened to it, and would not advocate a return to a court-centered, advocacy-oriented approach.

Recommended Citation

Karen M. Tani, Poverty Law 101: The Law and History of the U.S. Welfare State, 39 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1 (2012).
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol39/iss0/5