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What was it like to be a USSR lawyer?
| Rose church | 09/07/13 |
| wild wrinkle | 04/18/26 |
| Rose church | 04/18/26 |
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Date: September 7th, 2013 11:55 PM Author: Rose church apparently there were tens of thousands of them in the old soviet union. wtf did they do all day? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2356853&forum_id=2...id.#24011772) |
Date: April 18th, 2026 2:13 AM Author: wild wrinkle (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2356853&forum_id=2...id.#49824551) |
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Date: April 18th, 2026 2:53 AM Author: Rose church this paper from 1990 (right before the USSR imploded) says that soviet lawyers in private practice felt constrained by the bureaucracy and feared being investigated or disbarred if they took too many controversial stances:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1747-4469.1990.tb00378.x
apparently most soviet lawyers worked in the bureaucracy, and private practice was around a quarter of the legal field. legal education was a 5-year course after the soviet equivalent of high school, followed by a 2-year internship thing at a firm or state bureau.
they also had a GULC-style night school program for older workers to retrain as lawyers which took six years. |