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

总的来说，法学教育的考试假设法学院和法律职业都是单一的——社会化过程的关键维度是向学生介绍律师的集体身份，从而将他们从非律师转变为律师。本博士论文项目挑战了现有律师和法律教育工作中两个隐含且相关的假设：1）律师之间职业意识形态的异质性完全是在法律工作场所产生的；2）就法律教育向学生灌输职业意识形态而言，它只是在职业的集体意识形态中这样做。该研究检验了以下假设：对法律职业的不同看法的意识形态基础是在法学院中奠定的，并且向学生呈现的有关律师的想法根据学校在教育声望等级中的位置而有所不同。该研究比较了不同声望级别的法学院中法律和律师模式的创建和传播。采用集体案例研究方法，将培养学生担任该行业精英职位的学校与培养该行业较低地位从业者的学校进行比较。

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.