These reports form a complete New Zealand law student profile, detailing the expectations, views and experiences of law students during each year of their law studies and in their first post-law school years.
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The Making of Lawyers: expectations and experiences of first-year New Zealand law students (PDF, 2Mb)
The Making of Lawyers: expectations and experiences of second-year New Zealand law students (PDF, 2Mb)
The Making of Lawyers: expectations and experiences of third-year New Zealand law students (PDF, 2Mb)
The Making of Lawyers: expectations and experiences of fourth-year New Zealand law students (PDF, 2Mb)
The Making of Lawyers: expectations and experiences of fifth-year New Zealand law students (PDF, 2Mb)
Background:
A project, undertaken by the University of Canterbury between 2014 and 2021, to develop a law student profile.
This longitudinal study consists of a number of phases of a self-selected cohort of students who first enrolled in law papers in 2014 at the Universities of Auckland, Canterbury, and Waikato, and later, Victoria University of Wellington.
Reports prepared by Lynne Taylor, Ursula Cheer, Natalie Baird, John Caldwell and Debra Wilson.
Co-funded by the Ako Aotearoa Regional Hub Project Fund (RHPF)