Susan Gluck Mezey

Pitiful Plaintiffs (eBook, PDF)

Child Welfare Litigation and the Federal Courts

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on a class action lawsuit against the Illinois child welfare system (B. H. v. Johnson), Pitiful Plaintiffs examines the role of the federal courts in the child welfare policymaking process and the extent to which litigation can achieve the goal of reforming child welfare systems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822975083
• Artikelnr.: 72254554

Autorenporträt

Susan Gluck Mezey, Ph.D., J.D., is a professor of political science at Loyola University, Chicago. She is former director of Loyola's Women's Studies Program and chair of the 1999 Forum on the Child. She is the author of Pitiful Plaintiffs: Child Welfare Litigation and the Federal Courts; No Longer Disabled: The Federal Courts and the Politics of Social Security Disability; In Pursuit of Equality: Women, Public Policy, and the Federal Courts; and Children in Court: Public Policymaking and Federal Court Decisions. Her articles have appeared in Law & Policy, Journal of Politics, American Politics Quarterly, Rutgers Law Review, Women and Politics, Judicature, Policy Studies Review, Family Law Quarterly, and Policy Studies Journal.