SOC216H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Billable Hours, Legal Education, Law School Admission Test
Document Summary
Why lawyers: their role in our society important, 70% of our prime ministers = lawyers. Lawyers & legal educaion: to become a lawyer have to go to law school. Not always the case in the past: themes, law schools as transformaive insituion, law school as social reproducion. Law schools reproduce social inequaliies (ex. social status) reinforces them. Professional socializaion change you as a person. Entry & access to law school reproducion of social class and advantage. Reproducion of social class and advantage: learning to think like a lawyer not how to be one. Educaional debt and job choices: other themes: Who gets which jobs: becoming a lawyer in canada. Aricling pracicing being a lawyer from senior lawyer: privilege & pressure: law schools. 4/5 who apply to take an llb degree are turned away. Insituions require solid a average and lsat score in top 20%
