Felice Batlan, Women and Justice for the Poor: A History of Legal Aid, 1863–1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Pp. xv + 238 pages. $32.99 paperback. ISBN 978-1-1074-4641-0. In 1950, Margaret K. Rosenheim, who was a lawyer but not a credentialed social worker, joined the faculty of the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. For decades, she taught a legendary course about “Enduring Issues in Poor Relief” that relied on volumes of primary sources ranging from medieval tracts about poverty to modern mediations on the welfare state. The course helped generations of social workers to understand how the evolution of public policy informed their complicated relationship to their clients as well as the legal community. If Rosenheim were still with us, she would have required her students to read Felice Batlan’s important new book about the origins and contested meanings of legal aid in the United States because … david.tanenhaus{at}unlv.edu

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费利斯·巴特兰，《妇女和穷人的正义：法律援助史，1863-1945 年》

Felice Batlan，妇女和穷人的正义：法律援助的历史，1863-1945 年（剑桥大学出版社，2015 年）。pp。xv + 238 页。32.99 美元平装本。ISBN 978-1-1074-4641-0。1950 年，玛格丽特·K·罗森海姆（Margaret K. Rosenheim）加入芝加哥大学社会服务管理学院（School of Social Service Administration），她是一名律师，但不是一名获得认证的社会工作者。几十年来，她教授了一门关于“救济救济中的持久问题”的传奇课程，该课程依赖于从中世纪关于贫困的小册子到关于福利国家的现代调解的大量原始资料。该课程帮助几代社会工作者了解公共政策的演变如何影响他们与客户和法律界的复杂关系。如果罗森海姆还在我们身边