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2 Can. J. Women & L. 150 (1986-1988)
Is Real Life Finally Happening

handle is hein.journals/cajwol2 and id is 168 raw text is: 150 Comments Is Real Life Finally Happening? D 1987 by Toni Pickard This comment is the text of Toni Pickard's orientation address to students entering law studies at Queen's Faculty of Law. The author argues that attending law school is as much a part of real life as living in city ghettos. Real life is always happening - anytime and anywhere that life is being lived. She then analyzes how the hierarchical structure of legal education induces conformity, lack of engagement, and a sense of unreality. Intimidated students tend to withdraw, depreciate their personal knowledge, and feel that they risk inadequacy to express their own perceptions. These processes of domination reinforce the masculist, white, middle class, heterosexual values of the legal profession, and ultimately, of legal doctrine itself. Toni Pickard concludes that the resulting dominant culture will be challenged only when law students and lawyers recognize the effects of hierarchy and mainstream dominance, listen to those who speak from the margins, draw on their own experiences of marginalization as a resource for learning empathy, and begin to care about the entire community. Is Real Life Finally Happening? est le texte du discours livre par Toni Pickard lors de l'accueil des 6tudiant(e)s nouvellement inscrit(e)s d la Faculte de droit de l'Universit6 Queen's. L'auteure y soutient que la frequentation d'unefaculte de droit fait partie de la vraie vie au meme titre qu'habiter un ghetto urbain. L'important, c'est ce qui est vecu, peu importe le temps ou le lieu. Elle analyse ensuite comment les structures hi~rarchiques induisent la conformitM, l'absence d'engagement et le sens du reel. Les 6tudiant(e)s, intimide(e)s, ont alors tendance 6 avoir une image negative d'eux-memes et n'osent pas exprimer leurs propres perceptions. Ce processus de domination renforce les valeurs masculines qui sont v~hiculees au sein de la profession et influence la doctrine elle-meme. L'auteure conclut en disant que cette culture dominante ne changera que si les etudiant(e)s en droit et les juristes en percoivent les effets negatifs, se mettent d l' coute des marginaux et se pr~occupent de la communaut6 toute entiere. CJ WLIRjfd

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