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Good luck OP

Interesting. Can I ask what type of law you practice? Also, do you mean the ideology of your peers or the ideology baked into the system?

I don't see what's wrong with trying to help people with what tools are available. Homeless shelters are fundamentally liberal institutions that do nothing to challenge structural forces that create homelessness but that doesn't mean working in a homeless shelter is wrong.

I have no illusions about what type of person goes to law school, the overwhelming majority are some sort of neoliberal (with maybe a few succdems at a couple of schools but not the one I'm going to).

Heard it all before man.

Yeah. It's just gonna suck even worse for you because of how fucked the legal system is, dawg.

Im a polisci major and thought about doing it for a while. Learned I have horrible social interaction and am a giant pussy overall so i botched the idea. Decided after i get this B.A i'm going to get some computer science certifications instead.

It's a bit presumptuous to assume that you can find a job that relates to your ideology in any field. Say you were looking at studying to be a physicist - would you insist that your job afterwards be as a commie physicist? Of course not. Likely you'll have trouble enough just finding a job that pays the rent, never mind if what you do will be politically correct.

I'm almost tempted to say that there is no ethical employment under capitalism.

Finance will be replaced with a math-economics hybrid, rather than a purely quackery theoratical bullshit we have right now. Law will be turned completely upside down since most laws will basically change.

I'm a law student too, and it's worth noting that, at least here in the UK, there is quite a lot of volunteering and 'pro-bono' baked into the system, at the lower levels. Law is actually fairly liberal left, rather than right, in most of the country, for now, at least, as most lawyers are youngish professionals. May be different in the US.

I don't really know if there would be really that much of a shake-up in law were a communist revolution to occur. Clearly a lot of the bodies of law that exist today would be vastly less important, but that's enforcement and transgressions, which aren't really the concern of the lawyer themselves. The principles and philosophies guiding judicial law and their application are still likely to remain very important, and there'd still be plenty of need for lawyering of one form or another.

I have the equivalent of a 3 years Bachelor's degree in french public law, does that make me a state stooge?

Well I understand that it's hard enough to find a job as a lawyer, let alone as one who wants to practice public interest law. But, like I said, my job prospects now are pretty bad, so I might as well try.

My impression is that most law students here are left-liberals as well (except at some of the schools in more conservative parts of the country like the Deep South). I know lawyers as a whole are more likely to be Democrats than Republicans (especially the younger ones). I'm sure hardly any go beyond liberalism though.

That depends what you do I guess. If you're some sort of prosecutor than yes, if you're the French equivalent of a public defender then no. I don't know anything about the French legal system though (except that it's very different from the one everywhere in the US except Louisiana).

Hi OP

I'm a law student in Ireland (also I'm an ancom). personally I'd recommend it, its a fascinating field but its very easy to fall into a revisionist mindset (although when you study the lunacy that is the common law , you'll quickly realise that bourgeois law is irredeemable)

also from my interactions , the majority of law students are liberals. there are also quite a few libertarian/ centre right types, very few comrades so you'll be quite lonely in that regard.