Law and the Search for Community is not your typical left-liberal study of the needs of powerless people and the power of government actors.  It does not propose more law, more rights, more bureaucracy, more lawyering.  It  instead exposes the tensions of the usual rights-empowerment and due process response to such community needs as to special education, care for the elderly and poor, and water pollution. What Handler, author of more than 10 books on poverty and civil rights, finds is that cooperation and dialog count more than layering on rights and procedural review. First published in 1990 by Penn Press, and well received and reviewed since then, the book…