ABSTRACT
The results are not, however, random. Their particular backgrounds, socialisation and experiences-in which law schools and the practice of largely commercial firms of law play an important role-result in a patterning, a consistency, in the ways they categorise, approach and resolve social and political conflicts. This is a great source of the law's power; it enforces, reflects, constitutes and legitimises dominant social and power relations without a need for or the appearance of control from outside and by means of social actors who largely believe in their own neutrality and the myth of legal reasoning.
