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

总的来说，法律教育考试假定法学院和法律职业都是铁板一块的--社会化过程的关键是让学生了解律师的集体身份，从而将他们从非律师转变为律师。这一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的和相关的假设：1)律师之间的任何职业意识形态的异质性完全是在法律工作场所产生的；2)法律教育在一定程度上向学生灌输职业意识形态，它只在职业的集体意识形态中做到这一点。这项研究检验了一种假设，即法律专业不同观点的思想基础是在法学院奠定的，向学生提供的关于律师职业的想法根据学校在教育声望等级中的地位而不同。这项研究比较了法律和律师模式在不同声望级别的法学院中的创建和传播。一种集体案例研究方法被用来比较为学生准备在该行业担任精英职位的学校和培养该行业地位较低的从业者的学校。

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.