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Analyze the Importance of Diversity in the Legal Profession, Using the Example of the LGBT Subgroup

Fang YuanThe Australian National University*

* Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract

In recent years, the diverse professional backgrounds of legal practitioners have aroused research interest among scholars, as well as practitioners in the practice field. This essay focuses on LGBT subgroup in diversity, who are vulnerable to exclusion from others due to special gender identity and sexual orientation, and there are barriers to entering the legal profession. However, the entry of this group into the legal field may increase the diversity of the legal profession and contribute to the realization of justice, the formation of an ethical climate and economic benefits. In this regard, this essay provides suggestions on promoting LGBT groups to enter the legal profession from the perspectives of judicial policy, legal industry recruitment, and the establishment of a sense of belonging. This essay selects the diverse LGBT subgroup to discuss its importance in the legal profession and its significance to social development, which could fill the research gap to a certain extent.

Keywords: diversity; LGBT; legal profession
Published: April 26, 2024
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/32/20240024
Volume: CHR Vol.32
pp. 120-125
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