In the David M. Trubek article “complexity and Contradiction” it describes how for a state to function there needs be legitimate or fair in the eyes of citizens. For a state to be legitimate it needs to completely follow its own laws and practices as stated,” Formal legal rationality is a measure of legiti-mate rule, and deviations from this standard run the risk of destroying the legitimacy of the state” (536). “Formal legal rationality” means in the article that laws need to make sense and be fair for the state to be legitimate. Public interest law movements are groups of lawyers who fight for the rationality of the laws and question the legitimacy of the system. They work outside of the normal lawyer system as stated, “Public interest law
