Just Lawyers - Regulation and Access to Justice

Zusatztext Parker's valuable book proposes a model for the regulation and organization of lawyers guided by the fundamental democratic ideal of access to justice ... Her practical model for improving access to justice! incorporates lawyers' justice! but goes beyond it ... The argument by which she outs forward her model is long and intricate ... and brings in deliberative democratic theory and a considerable body of law and society research. Informationen zum Autor Christine Parker is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Law Faculty of the University of New South Wales, Australia Klappentext Just Lawyers proposes a model for the regulation and organization of lawyers, guided by an ideal of access to justice. It is grounded in empirical analysis of why people complain about lawyers, the sociology of existing legal institutions, and how lawyers think about the ethics of their profession. Zusammenfassung Lawyer's ethics and regulation should be guided by an ideal of access to justice, and grounded in the everyday sociology of legal practice. This book proposes a practical model for making justice an everyday practice that not only incorporates lawyers' justice but goes beyond it, and provides a mechanism for rendering lawyers themselves subject to the justice of deliberative democracy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Doorkeepers to Many Rooms 2: Judging Lawyers by Justice 3: Access to Justice 4: Integrating Justice 5: The Ethics of Justice 6: Competing Images of the Legal Profession: Competing Regulatory Strategies 7: Renegotiating the Regulation of the Legal Profession 8: Speaking Justice to Power: A Fifth Wave of Access to Justice Reform? 9: Lawyers in the Republic of Justice Appendix: Methodology for Chapter Six Case Study References Index

Product details

• Authors: Christine Parker, Christine (Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Law Parker, Parker Christine
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.12.1999
• EAN: 9780198268413
• ISBN: 978-0-19-826841-3
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Oxford Socio-Legal Studies; Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, LAW / Courts, LAW / Legal Profession, LAW / Trial Practice, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Courts & procedure, Legal systems: courts and procedures, Legal profession: general, Legal profession / practice of law: general