Sentences with phrase «racialized law»

Racialized law students were certainly not a third of the cohort, on a simple observation alone.

Not exact matches

It seems clear that it was such a conflation of scientific notions of progress in evolutionary biology with racialized notions of civilized Progress that made eugenics laws so attractive a century ago — seemingly for the vast majority of American elites.

It is critical that the work of the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees not get lost in all this regulatory alphabet soup.

: Reflections on the Law Society's Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group Report

Roughly 1 / 3rd of new calls in Ontario — most of whom attend law school in Ontario — identify as being members of a racialized group (an imperfect estimate, given the LSUC methodology, but probably a good first order approximation)-- by way of comparison 22 % of Ontarians are identified by stats can as being «visible minorities».

If you're going to say that you «don't think we actually have statistics of the racialized status of all law schools», you can not suggest, as you did in your original post, that law schools are filled with a homogenous population that isolated from the rich diversity of the Canadian population and lacking in experience dealing with diversity.

We know from NCA stats and information gleaned from the LPP that a significant portion of these racialized new calls are not graduates of Canadian law schools, so those figures are truly misleading.

The statement of principles has faced vocal opposition from some legal scholars and lawyers since it was introduced by the law society this fall as part of an initiative to combat the barriers faced by racialized licensees.

You said: «I don't think we actually have statistics of the racialized status of all law students in all law schools (the figures linked above are for lawyers, and just in Ontario).»

Work with stakeholders such as law firms, legal associations and law schools to develop policies and procedures to address challenges faced by racialized lawyers;

Racialized and non-racialized lawyers have approximately the same likelihood to practise civil litigation and corporate commercial law, but racialized lawyers are slightly more likely to practise criminal law, immigration law and poRacialized and non-racialized lawyers have approximately the same likelihood to practise civil litigation and corporate commercial law, but racialized lawyers are slightly more likely to practise criminal law, immigration law and poracialized lawyers have approximately the same likelihood to practise civil litigation and corporate commercial law, but racialized lawyers are slightly more likely to practise criminal law, immigration law and poracialized lawyers are slightly more likely to practise criminal law, immigration law and poverty law.

o Eliminate the LSAT: The report recommends that law firms should be prevented from discriminating, directly or indirectly, against racialized lawyers.

As co-chairman of the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees working group, Anand presented the group's final report to Convocation on Dec. 2, 2016 and obtained the approval of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

In that vacuum, racialized professionals are left to the devises of tort law if their defamation falls short of the Criminal Code.

Professor St. Lewis is at least as deserving of protection and legal remedy for defamation as any other individual under Canadian law — unless we accept the core of the defendant's argument that defamation somehow magically is not defamation if you racialize your false reputational attack and label it «racial political analysis».

Nearly 60 per cent of the youngest lawyers in Ontario are women, a significant demographic shift driven in large part by the increasing number of «racialized» women entering the profession, according to a report released by the Law Society of Upper Canada last week.

In the consultation process of the report, the law society heard from racialized licensees who provided examples of discrimination and harassment during articling and the first few years of practice.

With this case, Canadian law has rightly provided protection against defamation to an individual subjected to repeated published attacks on her reputation that were not only false as found by the jury's findings of defamation, but which specifically defamed the plaintiff based on her status as a member of a racialized group.

The Law Society of Upper Canada is trying to bring more attention to issues of diversity and equity in the profession through a working group and reports such as Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees.

If we do not correct our misperceptions, our lack of credit - giving, and the reality of the law firm notion of «fit» on an individual and collective level, we will continue to promote a legal structure and barring behaviours that exclude racialized women.

The distinction between legal and illicit marijuana and the asymmetrical criminalization of marijuana will only serve to perpetuate disproportionate enforcement of the law on the young, marginalized and racialized members of our society.

This is a grant in the amount of $ 3,000 to be awarded annually to a first - year law student that will use their legal training as a tool for change and in the service of the community, engaging in promoting activities related to human rights, social justice and equality rights of disadvantaged and racialized persons.

A potential remedial measure for the lack of racialized women in private law firms may be to implement assertiveness workshops and mandatory diversity workshops.

On a smaller scale, the final report of the Law Society of Upper Canada's Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group includes a recommendation that the Law Society, every four years, develop and publish an inclusion index which would «include legal workplaces» assessments of their diversity and inclusion - related achievements and that would allow legal workplaces to demonstrate their performance and progress.»

Think about what is facing us: the calls to action, the future of articling — or if not articling, what to have in its place — the impact of technology on legal practice, the access to justice imperative, the experience of racialized members of the profession, mental health among lawyers and law students and so on and so on.

Of particular note in this context is the decision in Law Society of Upper Canada v. Selwyn Milan McSween, which found explored the systemic disadvantages experienced by racialized licensees.

As a racialized lawyer, the Law Society of Upper Canada's «Challenges Facing Racialized Licensees: Final Report» has given me and many other racialized lawyerracialized lawyer, the Law Society of Upper Canada's «Challenges Facing Racialized Licensees: Final Report» has given me and many other racialized lawyerRacialized Licensees: Final Report» has given me and many other racialized lawyerracialized lawyers a voice.

At the same time the Law Society of Ontario announced this new duty, it advertised itself as a systemically racist bar and labeled licensees like me as «racialized.»

«I am not surprised that we have heard from a small but vocal segment of the legal profession and other commentators about the words I am proud to have drafted and insisted upon, and which passed after a healthy debate at Convocation,» says Anand, who is a co-chairman of the law society's Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group.

In 2013, Stratcom conducted an in - depth, multi-modal research project to understand the challenges facing racialized licensees in Ontario for the Law Society of Upper Canada.

The creation of these Statements, with the greatest respect to the Law Society's Racialized Licensees Working Group, is not sufficient.

In addition, we will hear from a panel of human rights lawyers, academic and community activists who will examine the current state of (in) equality in various areas such as disability rights, socio - economic inequalities facing racialized communities, women and immigrants, and the issue of systemic discrimination in certain areas of law.

Background: In September 2017, Ontario lawyers were informed by the Law Society of Ontario that they were expected to comply with a set of strategies adopted by the Law Society to address barriers to admission and within the profession faced by racialized licensees and other equality seeking groups.

So, what did the Law Society do when told by Stratcom that some racialized members of the professions felt that» the very act of studying racialization as a distinct phenomenon may produce stronger perceptions of its importance than are warranted in reality» or, in simple terms, that the research may tend to cause problems rather than solve them?

«In a 2004 report to the Law Society (the «Kay Report»), Professor Fiona Kay found that racialized lawyers are more likely than non-racialized lawyers to report experiencing disrespectful remarks by judges or other lawyers.

Another of the association's submissions to the law society dealt with the regulator's report on issues faced by racialized licensees.

I am an ally — that is, not racialized myself, but hope to be an ally to those who are — and I can remember when the LLP program was being debated, the reinstitutionalization of discrimination through the program was predicted by the Black Law Students» Association.

You can certainly argue about the problems faced by racialized communities and how that would impact their odds of getting into a Canadian law school, and you can put forward proposals to help them get in.

The same student opined that the reputation of the Law Society would suffer «when a disproportionate number of LPP students are found to be minorities, racialized groups, etc.» The LPP will perpetuate the systemic disadvantages that already face students from equity seeking groups.

This doesn't mean that senior partners in law firms are meeting in closed rooms wearing KKK hoods, or that there is a massive conspiracy among lawyers to keep out racialized lawyers.

And so the law society in Ontario conducted an inquiry into the status of racialized licensees, and discovered what many of us have been saying all along — there is a widespread and pervasive problem in the legal industry related to racialized lawyers.

For example, the Community Liaison Report provided to the Law Society of Upper Canada's Challenges Faced By Racialized Licensee Working Group reported, among other things, that:

One particularly troubling issue is the chronic underrepresentation of women and racialized individuals in the ranks of law firm equity partnerships.

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