(Un)Necessary Evils?: Ethical And Emotional Conflicts For Social Change Lawyers In Canada

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dc.contributor.advisorLawrence, Sonia
dc.contributor.authorMcKenzie, Marina Francesca
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-10T10:43:39Z
dc.date.available2025-04-10T10:43:39Z
dc.date.copyright2024-09-19
dc.date.issued2025-04-10
dc.date.updated2025-04-10T10:43:38Z
dc.degree.disciplineLaw
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameLLM - Master of Laws
dc.description.abstractThis thesis concerns an exploratory study about “social change” lawyers in Canada. Based on qualitative interviews, I aim to provide a modest but in-depth examination of the experiences and practical challenges these lawyers face in their work and how they navigate them. I find their approaches are divided between external and internal, both of which are affected by lawyers’ positionalities and experiences. “External approaches” concern how they reconcile conflicts in their values and responsibilities to different groups—namely individuals, communities and social movements—with each other, and with their obligations to the legal profession. Meanwhile, “internal approaches” concern how they navigate conflicting feelings arising out of working in contradictory and oppressive external systems. Ultimately, there is no formula or answer to how this work can be done; both approaches rely on finding a balance between conflicting parties or feelings and accepting an inherent uncertainty and unresolved nature of the work.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/42761
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subject.keywordsLaw and social movements
dc.subject.keywordsMovement lawyering
dc.subject.keywordsSocial change
dc.subject.keywordsSocial justice
dc.subject.keywordsSocial change lawyering
dc.subject.keywordsLawyering models
dc.subject.keywordsQualitative interviews
dc.subject.keywordsLaw and emotion
dc.subject.keywordsLegal ethics
dc.subject.keywordsEthical conflicts
dc.subject.keywordsEmotional conflicts
dc.subject.keywordsExploratory study
dc.subject.keywordsScoping study
dc.subject.keywordsFeminist legal theory
dc.subject.keywordsCritical social science
dc.subject.keywordsCritical race theory
dc.subject.keywordsMovement law
dc.subject.keywordsGrounded theory
dc.title(Un)Necessary Evils?: Ethical And Emotional Conflicts For Social Change Lawyers In Canada
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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