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Legal aid's logics

Studies in Law, Politics and Society

ISBN: 978-1-84855-090-2, eISBN: 978-1-84855-091-9

Publication date: 1 September 2008

Abstract

In the Canadian province of Ontario government-funded legal aid underwent significant change in the 1990s in ways that mirror the trajectory of other governmental programs typically referred to in the governmentality literature as a shift to neo-liberalism. Through an analysis of interviews with lawyers and programmatic texts closely linked to legal aid practices this chapter reveals that legal aid is shaped by neo-liberal and pastoral rationalities. The implications of these findings both for legal aid research and governmentality studies are discussed.

Citation

Park, G. and Lippert, R. (2008), "Legal aid's logics", Sarat, A. (Ed.) Studies in Law, Politics and Society (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 45), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 177-201. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1059-4337(08)45005-6

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