Law, Legal Institutions, and the Legal Profession in the New Economy

Abstract

The diverse, dynamic, and inchoate developments we call the new economy are a catalyst for responsive and reflexive changes in the production of law, legal institutions, and the legal profession in Canada and elsewhere. This article examines these changes alongside ongoing themes of the privatization of legal production, hybridization, and juridification. The resulting transformation of legal production has reshaped the role of law experts and aggravated existing tendencies of stratification, concentration, diversification, and marginalization within the legal profession itself.