Sociology of legal profession

You are training to enter a profession that sociology studies as a social institution in its own right — who gets to become a lawyer, how the profession organises and regulates itself, and how it stands between the ordinary citizen and the formal machinery of law. Understanding the profession sociologically is understanding the career you are about to join from the outside, before you are fully inside it.

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The sociology of the legal profession studies lawyers, legal practice and legal institutions as social phenomena — examining who enters the profession, how it is organised and regulated, what functions it performs for society, and how access to legal representation is distributed unequally across Indian society.

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