SOC216H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Youth Criminal Justice Act, Billable Hours, Young Offenders Act
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Lec-march 1: many prime ministers were lawyers and it shows that there is a certain power that comes with practicing law, rate of growth is faster than that of physicians and surgeons. Lawyers and legal education: law schools as transformative institutions, law schools as social reproduction. Professional socialization entry and access to law school: reproduction of social class and advantage. Reproduction of social class and advantages: learning to think like a lawyer . Becoming a lawyer in canada: going to law school. Civil law (quebec) or common law (rest of canada) (22 schools in total: bar admission, articling. Have a senior lawyer to work for which is articling. In 2008, 5. 8% of applicants failed to secure an articling position within their first year of eligibility. Pressure of law school: growth of the profession and increasing competition for entry. 6,800 canadian students wrote lsat in 2001-2 (compared to 117,567.
