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Legal Education: Nemesis Or Ally Of Social Movements?, Janet E. Mosher
Legal Education: Nemesis Or Ally Of Social Movements?, Janet E. Mosher
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
There is much in legal education which contributes to lawyering practices that are fundamentally at odds with the formation of social movements. These practices include the "individualization" of client problems; the reshaping of the realities of clients' lives into legal categories or boxes; the commitment to instrumentalism (that is, to securing a favourable legal result); and lawyer domination and control and the correlates of client silence and passivity. The genesis for these features of dominant lawyering practices can be traced, at least in part, to legal education. More specifically, legal education's emphasis upon doctrinal analysis, its tendency to trade upon …
The Use Of Self-Regulation To Curb Discrimination And Sexual Harassment In The Legal Profession, Joan Brockman
The Use Of Self-Regulation To Curb Discrimination And Sexual Harassment In The Legal Profession, Joan Brockman
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Many law societies in Canada have responded to studies documenting gender bias and sexual harassment in the legal profession by introducing anti-discrimination rules. The Law Society of British Columbia introduced anti-discrimination rules in 1993. This article discusses the attitudes of a stratified random sample of lawyers (50 women and 50 men) called to the Bar in British Columbia between 1986 and 1990, gathered through in-depth interviews conducted in 1993-94. It addresses the question of whether they think the Law Society's rules prohibiting discrimination and sexual harassment will be effective. The article also raises some questions about the role of self-regulation …