Contesting Professionalism: Legal Aid and Nonlawyers in England and Wales.
Professions are granted a form of cartel that enables them to charge more than would arise in a free market on the assumption that they provide better quality and are more trustworthy than free-market actors would be. The theoretical assumption that lawyers are more competent than nonlawyers has giv...
| Publicado en: | Law & Society Review Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 765 - 809 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
December 2003
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