Law and justice: co-production as the new imperative

Article Abstract:

Anti-poverty attorneys can help poor people rise from poverty by encouraging the process of "co-production," in which legal clients trade their work for legal services. The co-production process has been tested with respect to legal services through the use of an electronic currency called Time Dollars, a form of money people earn by helping each other and getting help in return. On a broader level, co-production could achieve social justice by giving anyone willing to help another the purchasing power necessary to gain a decent standard of living .

Usage, Barter

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Keynote address

Article Abstract:

New strategies must be employed to ensure legal services are available to everyone who needs them. Paralegals could be allowed to provide certain legal advice and government agencies could be billed for benefits arising from a poverty lawyer's representation of poor clients, like housing authority tenants. Legal services could be integrated along class lines to prevent the erosion of political support and with nonlegal services to reduce overhead and increase accessibility to clients.

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Are Workfare participants "employees"?: legal issues presented by a two-tiered labor force

Article Abstract:

Issues surrounding the question of whether state and federal Workfare participants are subject to protection of federal and state occupational safety and health laws and minimum wage requirements are discussed.

Pennsylvania, Utah, Cases, Wages, Minimum wage, Workfare programs

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