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Professionalism and Monopoly of Expertise: Lawyers and Administrative Law, 1933–1937
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 April 2024
Abstract
This study situates the response of various segments of the bar to the New Deal era of administrative expansion in the context of contemporary theories of the legal profession. I focus on the theoretical formulations of a market monopoly approach, a functionalist approach, and a systems approach to the study of professionalism and professional competition. I consider each approach in light of two foundational prisms: (1) the stratified composition of the bar necessarily leads to a corresponding variation in the response to changes in the legal environment; (2) at the elite level of the profession, there is considerable attention to changes that affect the law as a system of knowledge and as a resource around which lawyers establish their professional legitimacy as exclusive experts. I draw attention to the strategic mechanisms that lawyers invoked in order to deal with the inter- and intraprofessional competition that accompanied the expansion of the regulatory state.
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- Change and Adaptation of Lawyers' Work: Evolving Theories
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- Copyright © 1993 by The Law and Society Association
Footnotes
I thank Richard Abel, Terry Halliday, Christine Harrington, Arthur Stinchcombe, and my anonymous reviewers for helpful and constructive comments from which I benefited greatly.
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