SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Legal Education, Immigration Policy, Socratic Method
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Paper 2: essay format, no outside research. In order to be a lawyer you need to go to law school, in both canada and the. Read it: law schools as social reproduction, they reproduce social inequalities (social status in the world, your parents have a set of credentials and law school ends up reinforcing inequalities that already exist in our society) Becoming a lawyer in canada: you have to go to law school. Uoft law school: middle line 50th percentile admitted to law school, less than 10% get admission and about 2000 students apply. Law schools in canada: windsor different from other law schools, encourage openness and diversity. Schleef studied business and law students to see who goes into law school: difference in altruism (wanting to help others) Lab study: 2010 a group of students became lawyers. Schleef they way in which they were brought up, privileges they enjoyed, shape their expectations of their own kind of lifestyle.
