POSC 226 The Legal Profession

LSOC 226/POSC 226 introduces the legal profession from the perspective of both law practitioners and the social sciences; provides an inside view of the practice of law as well as social science perspectives on the role of the lawyer in society; considers issues associated with access to justice, legal ethics, and cause-lawyering among others; clarifies the connections between the goals of liberal education, on the one hand, and legal education, on the other; and compares and contrasts the values, perspectives, and assumptions of social science and ethics with those of the legal profession.