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Case & Statute Comments, The New Massachusetts Drug Asset Forfeiture Law: A Dialogue, R. Michael Cassidy

R. Michael Cassidy

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Unauthorized Legal Practice Prosecutions And Independent Paralegals In Ontario And The United States, John A. Flood, Frederick H. Zemans

Frederick H. Zemans

The issue of unauthorized legal practice involves questions of professionalism and market protection. The legal profession, like other professions, is seen a being particularly successful at excluding others from its area of jurisdiction. Disputes over jurisdiction occur at the edge of this jurisdiction, specifically when certain condition arise. The e conditions are characterized by the "indetermination/ technicality (I/T) ratio", where "I" represents the ideological underpinning of the profession and "T" represents the technical knowledge. "If either the knowledge base or the ideological underpinning deteriorates, the occupation will lose control over its spheres of activity....For an occupation or a profession to …

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Foucault: O Poder E O Direito, Ronaldo Porto Macedo Junior

Ronaldo Porto Macedo Junior

ABSTRACT: The idea of crisis of Law that can be found in the great part of the contemporary legal literature is based on a deeper question related to the crisis of the classical concepts of Rationality and Representation. Thies paper shows how the Foucauldian’s analysis of the crisis of the liberal legal rationality explains the advent of new forms of legal rationalities, based on the concepts of Norm and Normality, in the, so called, Social Law. Thues, the main concepts involved in the archaelogy of legal Knowledge and genealogy of legal powers in the Welfare State society are analysed. Finally, …