Rethinking the Lawyers' Monopoly

David Freeman Engstrom is the LSVF Professor in Law and Co-Director of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession at Stanford University. An award-winning scholar, longtime litigator, and nationally recognized expert on procedure and law and technology, Engstrom is a member of the American Law Institute, where he serves as Reporter for Principles of the Law, High-Volume Civil Adjudication, a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, and a faculty affiliate at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Nora Freeman Engstrom is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession at Stanford University, and she also holds the R. Ammi Cutter Reporter's Chair of the American Law Institute. A nationally recognized authority on tort law, professional responsibility, and complex litigation, she is the author of numerous award-winning scholarly articles, the co-author of two leading casebooks, and a Reporter for two Third Restatement of Torts projects.

• Introduction: envisioning the future of legal services David Freeman Engstrom and Nora Freeman Engstrom; Part I. Framing the Issue: Conceptualizing the Challenge of Access to Justice and Legal Services Regulation: 1. Justice futures: access to justice and the future of justice work Rebecca L. Sandefur and Matthew Burnett; 2. Race and the political economy of civil justice Brian Libgober; 3. The hypocrisy of attorney licensing Rebecca Haw Allensworth; 4. The case for the traditionalists W. Bradley Wendel; Part II. Lessons from the Field: On-the-Ground Efforts to Effect Positive Change: 5. What can legal services reformers learn from court efforts to assist self-represented litigants Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl; 6. Civil [justice] engineering: leveraging the tools of community, research, and fiscal impact to build bridges to justice Neil Steinkamp and Samantha DiDomenico; 7. Beyond access to justice: power, organizing, and civil legal inequality Jamila Michener; 8. The puzzle of anemic 'legal tech' and the future of legal services David Freeman Engstrom and Jess X. Lu; Part III. The Comparative Lens: What Can Be Learned from Others?: 9. How power undermined the medical profession Allison K. Hoffman; 10. Lessons from medicine's experiment with nurse practitioners and physician assistants Philip G. Peters; 11. The statutory influence of tribal lay advocates Lauren van Schilfgaarde; 12. Necessary but insufficient? Reforms to legal services regulation, technology and the role of the courts in increasing access to justice in England and Wales Natalie Byrom; 13. Legal tech companies and access to justice in Germany Giesela Rühl; Part IV. New Frontiers: Charting the Future of Legal Services: 14. Professional speech, the lochnerized first amendment, and the unauthorized practice of law Genevieve Lakier; 15. Rethinking 'our bar federalism' David Freeman Engstrom and Daniel B. Rodriguez; 16. Access to advice as a linchpin of family justice Rebecca Aviel; 17. Putting railroad justice back on track Samuel Issacharoff and Beverly B. Martin.