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When the organized bar association faced financial strain during the Depression, it cracked down on low-cost legal service providers via auto clubs like AAA, contributing to today’s access-to-justice gap. In this “How did we get here?”-style episode, HLS student Andrew Reed interviews Stanford Professor Nora Freeman Engstrom and University of Chicago Fellow James Stone about their research and the “revolution” taking place in many states to reform the legal profession.
Read the corresponding blog post.
Speakers:
- Andrew Reed, J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School
- Nora Freeman Engstrom, Ernest W. MacFarland Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Co-Director, Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession
- James Stone, Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago
Resources mentioned:
- “Auto Clubs and the Lost Origins of the Access-to-Justice Crisis”, Yale Law Journal
- Chicago Bar Association v. Chicago Motor Club
- In re Opinion of the Justices, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1935
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