Training and Disciplining Lawyers Through Legal Aid: Chile, 1932–1960s

Saux, Marianne González Le

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“…These changes democratized access to higher education and allowed universities to engage in the production of knowledge rather than limiting themselves to professional education (Bernasconi and Rojas 2003, 131-32;Brunner 2015, 28-30). Legal education also experienced important reforms due to the widespread conviction that the law and the legal profession were undergoing a profound crisis (Villalonga 2021;González 2018). Law schools, with international aid, experimented with curricula, teaching methods, and hired full-time faculty that could also engage in research (Lowenstein 1970, 99-101, 111-16;Merryman 2000).…”

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“It Now Exists”: The Birth of the Chilean Professional Legal Academia in the Wake of Neoliberalism

2022

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This article analyzes the processes shaping the emergence of a professionalized legal academia in Chile. Through a case study informed by quantitative and qualitative evidence, the study shows that the control and orientation of a professional school is a contested space, where the interactions between the profession, the market, and the state shape the trajectory of the legal education field. The article argues that the neoliberal remaking of higher education of the 1980s created a regime that increasingly relies on performance indicators modeled on the paradigm of the research university, which have been used as an opportunity by law schools seeking elite status to increase their academic reputation through the formation of bodies of full-time legal scholars. This new institutional environment has produced, however, an important degree of malaise among the new professional legal academics, the majority of whom resent that their research is increasingly swayed by the standards imposed by governmental or university-wide bureaucratic structures rather than by the needs of legal practice.

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“It Now Exists”: The Birth of the Chilean Professional Legal Academia in the Wake of Neoliberalism

2022

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“This is where I belong:” a narrative study of professional commitment to a new criminal justice agency

Arriagada

2023

Crime Law Soc Change

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Scholars of penal change have established a rich theoretical understanding of the macro- and meso- level processes that explain the emergence, diffusion, and success of penal developments. Similarly enthusiastic examinations of the agentic aspects of professional commitment to criminal justice institutions are necessary to better understand the relationship between micro-level individual processes and the endurance and success of penal projects. The present study builds on existing analyses of cause lawyering and indigent criminal defense to examine the personal narratives of penitentiary defenders, lawyers working for the Unit of Penitentiary Defense, a novel Chilean public agency that offers legal assistance and enables convicted prisoners to file grievances and report rights violations before criminal courts. By drawing on 45 in-depth semi-structured interviews, I analyze the ways in which these attorneys incorporate biographical experiences and life events into coherent stories that both support and construct their professional identity as legal aid lawyers despite adverse working conditions. Four narratives are prevalent in their accounts: identification, privilege, calling, and admiration. These narratives demonstrate that criminal justice professionals engage in meaning-making processes through the creation of biographical accounts that tie personal and professional self-understandings together. The contribution of the article is thus twofold: it situates the role of individual agency in the development of penal projects and provides a novel explanation as to how legal aid lawyers become personally and professionally invested in indigent defense.

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Training and Disciplining Lawyers Through Legal Aid: Chile, 1932–1960s

Cited by 2 publications

References 14 publications

“It Now Exists”: The Birth of the Chilean Professional Legal Academia in the Wake of Neoliberalism

“It Now Exists”: The Birth of the Chilean Professional Legal Academia in the Wake of Neoliberalism

“This is where I belong:” a narrative study of professional commitment to a new criminal justice agency

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