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(0)Richard L Abel
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In this provocative treatment of the American legal profession, Abel synthesizes a large volume of literature on lawyers and their profession and brings a wealth of data to bear on a variety of topics concerning the profession's development. Among other things, he focuses on the bar's control of entry into the profession, demographic characteristics of lawyers, ethical rules and practices, legal aid for the poor, law school socialization, and professional...
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"We are presently experiencing what may well be a major transformation of our legal system. Recent years have witnessed repeated attacks on formal legality, complaints about excessive litigiousness, and insistence that the state is being asked to do too much. The Politics of Informal Justice is concerned with a important expression of this general tendency -- informal justice -- the process by which norms are declared, modified, and applied to behaviour...