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Building a Regime of Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1840-1945
No full textH-Pad is happy to announce the release of its sixth broadside. In “Building a Regime of Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1840-1945,” Felice Batlan traces a century of U.S. government laws, policies, and attitudes regarding immigration. The broadside explores how ideas about race, class, religion, and the Other repeatedly led to laws restricting the immigration of those who members of Congress, the President, and the U.S. public considered inferior and/or a threat
Are We Our Mother\u27s Law Students?: Women\u27s Law School Experiences and an Agenda for Action
No full textFelice J. Batlan delivered the University of Georgia School of Law\u27s 27th Edith House Lecture on March 2, 2009 at 3:30 p.m. in the Larry Walker Room of Dean Rusk Hall. Dr. Batlan discussed the results of a survey, conducted by herself and four law students, which explored the gender dimensions of the law school experience at Chicago-Kent College of Law. After reading earlier studies about women in law school, the team designed a project to create, administer, and analyze a student survey about the differences between women’s and men’s experiences in law school. The presentation also explored the development of third wave feminist methodology, how it differs from second wave methodology, and how this difference may shape legal education
Domestic Disorders: Suffrage and New York\u27s Constitutional Convention of 1867
No full textIn this essay, Felice Batlan discusses New York State’s Constitutional Convention of 1867. She argues that it is (at least in part) the outcome of this convention and the antagonisms that it created that further propelled Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan Anthony to align with interests opposing African-American suffrage. It also shows the absolute mess of pursuing suffrage on a state by state basis and how legislators themselves equated the voting of African American men with women’s suffrage. The essay is part of a larger project in conversation with scholarship about Reconstruction in the North and a second body of scholarship on women’s history
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Women and justice for the poor ::a history of legal aid, 1863-1945 /
No full textThis book re-examines fundamental assumptions about the American legal profession and the boundaries between 'professional' lawyers, 'lay' lawyers, and social workers. Putting legal history and women's history in dialogue, it demonstrates that nineteenth-century women's organizations first offered legal aid to the poor and that middle-class women functioning as lay lawyers, provided such assistance. Felice Batlan illustrates that by the early twentieth century, male lawyers founded their own legal aid societies. These new legal aid lawyers created an imagined history of legal aid and a blueprint for its future in which women played no role and their accomplishments were intentionally omitted. In response, women social workers offered harsh criticisms of legal aid leaders and developed a more robust social work model of legal aid. These different models produced conflicting understandings of expertise, professionalism, the rule of law, and ultimately, the meaning of justice for the poor
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Women and justice for the poor ::a history of legal aid, 1863-1945 /
No full text"This book re-examines fundamental assumptions about the American legal profession and the boundaries between 'professional' lawyers, 'lay' lawyers, and social workers. Putting legal history and women's history in dialogue, it demonstrates that nineteenth-century women's organizations first offered legal aid to the poor and that middle-class women functioning as lay lawyers, provided such assistance. Felice Batlan illustrates that by the early twentieth century, male lawyers founded their own legal aid societies. These new legal aid lawyers created an imagined history of legal aid and a blueprint for its future in which women played no role and their accomplishments were intentionally omitted. In response, women social workers offered harsh criticisms of legal aid leaders and developed a more robust social work model of legal aid. These different models produced conflicting understandings of expertise, professionalism, the rule of law, and ultimately, the meaning of justice for the poor"-
Felice Batlan, Women and Justice for the Poor: A History of Legal Aid 1863-1945, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2015, 232 p.
No full textEn este libro, Felice Batlan se aboca a un área que ha recibido escasa atención tanto por parte de historiadores como de abogados: la historia de la asistencia judicial. Y es que a primera vista, la provisión de asistencia legal gratuita a “los pobres” se presenta como un aspecto marginal de la práctica jurídica, tanto por la poca importancia que los abogados parecen otorgarle como por la marginalidad misma de sus clientes. Por el contrario, este libro muestra que la historia de la asistenci..
Felice Batlan, Women and Justice for the Poor: A History of Legal Aid 1863-1945, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2015, 232 p.
No full textEn este libro, Felice Batlan se aboca a un área que ha recibido escasa atención tanto por parte de historiadores como de abogados: la historia de la asistencia judicial. Y es que a primera vista, la provisión de asistencia legal gratuita a “los pobres” se presenta como un aspecto marginal de la práctica jurídica, tanto por la poca importancia que los abogados parecen otorgarle como por la marginalidad misma de sus clientes. Por el contrario, este libro muestra que la historia de la asistenci..
Are We Our Mother\u27s Law Students?: Women\u27s Law School Experiences and an Agenda for Action, Felice J. Batlan, Chicago-Kent College of Law, 3/2/2009
No full textBatlan discussed the gender dimensions of the law school experience.https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/house_lectures/1003/thumbnail.jp
Are We Our Mother\u27s Law Students?: Women\u27s Law School Experiences and an Agenda for Action, Felice J. Batlan, Chicago-Kent College of Law, 3/2/2009
No full textBatlan discussed the gender dimensions of the law school experience.https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/house_lectures/1003/thumbnail.jp
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