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32 UCLA L. Rev. 474 (1984-1985)
Law without Politics: Legal Aid under Advanced Capitalism

handle is hein.journals/uclalr32 and id is 488 raw text is: LAW WITHOUT POLITICS: LEGAL AID UNDER ADVANCED CAPITALISM Richard L. Abel* Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ........................................... 475 I. APOLITICAL ACCOUNTS OF LEGAL AID .............. 476 II. VALUE INCOHERENCE ............................... 485 III. THE POLITICS OF LEGAL AID ........................ 498 A. The Legal Profession ............................ 499 B. Legal Aid Lawyers ............................... 510 C . Clients .......................................... 519 D . The State ....................................... 524 E . Capital .......................................... 534 F. L abor ........................................... 536 G . Philanthropy .................................... 537 H . Recapitulation ................................... 539 IV. WHAT IS LEGAL AID? ............................... 540 A. How Much Legal Aid Is There? .................. 540 B. Who Uses Legal Aid? ............................ 550 C. Which Lawyers Do Clients Use? .................. 556 D. When Is Legal Aid Rendered? ................... 564 Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles. B.A., Harvard Col- lege, 1962; J.D., Columbia Law School, 1965; Ph.D., University of London, 1974. I am grateful to the Legal Action Group and the Law Centres Federation for material; the Law Department of the London School of Economics and the Department of Legal Studies at La Trobe University, Melbourne, for hospitality in 1982 and 1983; Frederick H. Zemans for sharing with me the papers presented at the VIIth International Con- gress on Procedural Law, Wurzburg, 1983; Carrie Menkel-Meadow for her comments on an earlier draft; Heleen F.P. Ietswaart for statistics on French legal aid; and the UCLA Law School Dean's Fund and the Law and Social Sciences Program of the Na- tional Science Foundation for financial support (grants SES 81-10380 and 83-10162). A greatly abbreviated version of this Article was presented to the Conference on Critical Legal Studies in Washington, D.C., March 16-18, 1984. 1. Archimedes of Syracuse commenting on the powers of the lever. PAPPUS OF ALEXANDRIA, collection, bk. VIII, prop. 10, § 11. 474

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