Socializing the Legal Profession

Can Redistributing Lawyers' Services Achieve Social Justice

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6090261
AutoresRichard L Abel (0000-0002-5197-3086), Richard Abel (0009-0008-4694-285X, University of California, Los Angeles, autor de correspondencia)
Año1979
Volumen1
Número1
Páginas5-51
Fecha de publicación1979-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLaw & Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0265-8240 • E-ISSN: 1467-9930
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9930.1979.tb00179.x
OpenAlexW1999013018
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas53

Redistributing laywers' services is a principal focus of efforts to reform contemporary legal systems. Such reforms generally attempt to modify the market distribution in oneof two ways: by subsidizing lawyers for the unrepresented, or by rendering lawyers unnecessary through deprofessionalization. This essay analyzes the contribution that redistribution could make to social (rather than formal) justice by extrapolating the consequences of the greatest conceivable redistribution: a socialization of the profession that would withdraw lawyers from those who presently purchase lawyers' services, while simultaneously subsidizing lawyers for the unrepresented. It then turns to the political prospects forsocialization. Concluding that socialization appears either feasible nor likely to attainsocial justice if it were possible, the essay reflects on the implications of continued pursuit of reformist goals

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