Formalizing law expands the judiciary into an omnipresent public service

Evidence

In short, the more the law becomes formal, the more numerous judicial interventions,And to the extent thatgovernmentalinterventions ofthe public authority are more and more formalized, and to the extent that administrative intervention recedes, then to the same extent justice tends to become, and must become, an omnipresent public service. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 945

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The threat of publicity substitutes for formal judicial enforcement. — Lisa Bernestein, Opting out of the Legal System, 107; The service state expands by breaching boundaries between public responsibility and private life — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 102; Public-service ethics force agencies to expand volume instead of improving quality (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• The threat of publicity substitutes for formal judicial enforcement. #complicates (0.75) — Lisa Bernestein, Opting out of the Legal System, 107