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