Research Catalog

Title

Poverty and the law / edited by Peter Robson and Asbjørn Kjønstad.

Publication

Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2001.

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Additional Authors

• Robson, Peter, 1947-
• Kjønstad, Asbjørn.
• Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law.
• Comparative Research Programme on Poverty.

Description

xvi, 199 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Oñati international series in law and society

Uniform Title

Oñati international series in law and society

Alternative Title

Poverty & the law

Subject

• Poverty > Congresses
• Social legislation > Congresses
• Poor laws > Congresses
• Social policy > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Contains papers from a workshop held in 1997 at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain, organized by the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The rights of the poor : conceptual issues / Paul Spicker -- The law and the poor : institutional support and economic need in Italy / Yuri Kazepov -- Strategies for police accountability and community empowerment / Ross Hastings and R. P. Saunders -- Poverty, social exclusion and the impact of selected legal measures against caste discrimination in South Asia / Kalinga Tudor Silva and Ajith Hettihewage -- Disability and poverty in the United Kingdom / Peter Robson and Nicola Loughran -- The development of the notion of poverty and the equal protection clauses : a comparative analysis of Italy and the United States /$rAntonella Mameli -- Substantive justice and procedural fairness in social security : the UK experience / Michael Adler -- The rule of law and poverty reduction : some issues / Hélène Grandvoinnet -- An army of ideas : marginalisation, indigenous rights and civil society in Mexico since the Zapatista Rebellion / Camilo Perez-Bustillo.

ISBN

• 1841131903
• 1841131911 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 45853858
• SCSB-10304549

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library