Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Production of Lawyers: The Impact of Law School Status on Ideologies of Legal Professionalism

总的来说，对法律的教育的审查假定法学院和法律的职业是一体的-社会化过程的关键方面是向学生介绍律师的集体身份，从而使他们从非律师转变为律师。这个博士论文项目挑战了现有律师和法律的教育工作中两个隐含且相关的假设：1）律师职业意识形态的任何异质性都完全是在法律的工作场所产生的，2）在一定程度上，法律的教育向学生灌输职业意识形态，它只在该行业的集体意识形态中这样做。研究测试的假设，不同的看法，法律的职业的思想基础是奠定在法学院和律师的学生提出的想法不同的基础上学校的地位，在教育的声望等级。该研究比较了不同声望水平的法学院中法律和律师业模式的创造和传播。集体案例研究的方法是用来比较学校，培养学生承担精英职位的专业与学校产生的专业的低地位的从业者。

By and large, examinations of legal education assume that both law schools and the legal profession are monolithic--that the key dimension of the socialization process is introducing students to the collective identity of lawyers, thus transforming them from non-lawyers into lawyers. This doctoral dissertation project challenges the two implicit and related assumptions of existing work on lawyers and legal education: 1 ) that any heterogeneity in professional ideology among lawyers is produced exclusively in the legal workplace and 2) that to the extent legal education indoctrinates students in professional ideology, it does so only in the collective ideology of the profession. The research tests the hypothesis that the ideological groundwork for differing views of the legal profession is laid in law schools and that the ideas presented to students about lawyering differ based on the school's position in the educational prestige hierarchy. The research compares the creation and diffusion of models of law and lawyering in law schools of different levels of prestige. A collective case study method is used to compare schools that prepare students to assume elite positions in the profession with schools that produce the profession's lower-status practitioners.