Barriers to the Profession: Inaction in Ontario, Canada and its Consequences

Authors

  • Avner Levin Ryerson University
  • Asher Alkoby Ryerson University

Keywords:

Legal Profession, diversity, access to justice, articling, Ontario, abogacía, diversidad, barreras, acceso a la justicia

Abstract

The province of Ontario, Canada, has not had a new law school in almost 40 years. Barriers limiting access to the profession have increased during this time due to a combination of factors discussed in this paper. Diversity within the legal profession has not improved, leading to the perception of a profession dominated by “old white males” whose services are increasingly unaffordable. The paper argues that barriers should be removed and that access to the profession should be greatly increased.

La provincia de Ontario, Canadá, no ha tenido una nueva facultad de derecho en casi 40 años. Las barreras que limitan el acceso a la profesión han aumentado durante este tiempo debido a una combinación de factores que se analizan en este artículo. La diversidad dentro de la abogacía no ha mejorado, lo que lleva a la percepción de una profesión dominada por "viejos hombres blancos", cuyos servicios son cada vez más prohibitivos. El artículo defiende que se deben eliminar las barreras y que se debe aumentar el acceso a la profesión.

DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2283823

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.
Views 133
Downloads:
PDF 128


Author Biographies

Avner Levin, Ryerson University

Associate Professor and Chair, Law and Business Department, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University.350 Victoria Street. Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3. Canada.

Asher Alkoby, Ryerson University

Associate Dean, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University.Ryerson University, Ted Rogers School of Management. 350 Victoria Street. Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3. Canada

Downloads

Published

03-09-2012

How to Cite

Levin, A. and Alkoby, A. (2012) “Barriers to the Profession: Inaction in Ontario, Canada and its Consequences”, Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 3(3), pp. 580–594. Available at: https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/211 (Accessed: 23 December 2024).

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 3 (2013): How many lawyers are too many lawyers: perspectives, context and place

Section

Thematic Articles

License

OSLS strictly respects intellectual property rights and it is our policy that the author retains copyright, and articles are made available under a Creative Commons licence. The Creative Commons Non-Commercial Attribution No-Derivatives licence is our default licence, further details available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 If this is not acceptable to you, please contact us.

The non-exclusive permission you grant to us includes the rights to disseminate the bibliographic details of the article, including the abstract supplied by you, and to authorise others, including bibliographic databases, indexing and contents alerting services, to copy and communicate these details.

For information on how to share and store your own article at each stage of production from submission to final publication, please read our Self-Archiving and Sharing policy.

The Copyright Notice showing the author and co-authors, and the Creative Commons license will be displayed on the article, and you must agree to this as part of the submission process. Please ensure that all co-authors are properly attributed and that they understand and accept these terms.