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Between Access To Counsel And Access To Justice: A Psychological Perspective, Nourit Zimmerman, Tom R. Tyler
Between Access To Counsel And Access To Justice: A Psychological Perspective, Nourit Zimmerman, Tom R. Tyler
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Looking into the pro se phenomenon, this paper will explore the lessons that can be learned from the experiences of the many individuals representing themselves in the American legal system today. Our interest in this paper will try to understand better the procedural values that matter to people and how they are related to having or not having professional legal representation. Does having a lawyer or not having a lawyer influence the experiences of lay people operating within the legal system, their evaluations of the process and the system, and of the outcomes obtained by them, and in what ways? …