A New Analysis of the Market for Legal Services: The Lawyer, homo œconomicus or homo conventionalis?

F. Bessis, Camille Chaserant
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The current movement of deregulation of professional services in Europe rests on the idea that reducing professional regulation will increase market competition and lead to cut prices for customers. Studying liberalization of the market for legal services, we assume that competition relates much more to quality than to the sole prices. Endorsing the perspective of economics of convention, we show that the profession of lawyer overlaps with a diversity of autonomous and dis-tinct logics that links the quality of services valued by clients with professional practices. These typical logics frame different rational processes characterized by the implementation of distinctive interpretation and reflexivity processes by lawyers. Given that the market-based rationality of maximizing profit sustains only one of the fourth logics embodied within the legal market, this article questions the consequences of professional deregulation on the performance of the market for legal services.
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法律服务市场新分析:律师、同性恋œconomicus还是传统同性恋?
目前欧洲对专业服务放松管制的运动基于这样一种观点,即减少专业监管将增加市场竞争,并导致降低客户的价格。在研究法律服务市场的自由化时,我们假设竞争更多地与质量有关,而不仅仅是与价格有关。我们赞同惯例经济学的观点,表明律师职业与多种自主和独特的逻辑重叠,这些逻辑将客户所重视的服务质量与专业实践联系起来。这些典型的逻辑框架了不同的理性过程,其特征是律师实施了不同的解释和反身性过程。鉴于利润最大化的市场理性只维持了法律市场中体现的第四种逻辑之一,本文质疑专业放松管制对法律服务市场绩效的影响。
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