ANNUL脡 - In It For Good: An Empirical Study of Public Interest Careers
Nous regrettons de devoir annoncer que cette conf茅rence est annul茅e.
La Facult茅 de droit et le Centre sur les droits de la personne et le pluralisme juridique accueillent Scott Cummings (UCLA), qui parlera d'une 茅tude qu'il a co-r茅alis茅e sur ce qui encourage les dipl么m茅.e.s en droit 脿 continuer de nourrir un int茅r锚t pour les carri猫res d'int茅r锚t public et les poursuivre.
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[En anglais seulement] We know a great deal about the decline of idealism in law school. Conventional wisdom says that large numbers of students enter with public service aspirations, but most leave to pursue careers in the private sector, dissuaded and demoralized by law school culture and training. What encourages law students to commit to public interest careers over the long-haul鈥攖o stay 鈥渋n it for good鈥�?
Our guests sought to answer that question by analyzing data from an empirical study of the graduates of six California law schools between 2001 and 2010. Comparing the impact of endowment effects鈥攚hat students bring to law school鈥攁nd educational effects鈥攚hat they experience there鈥攖hey found that student participation in a suite of public interest programs is related to what they call 鈥減ublic interest persistence.鈥�
Their study concludes that persistence is a complex product of what they bring to law school and what they take from it. The characteristics and experiences students bring with them to law school matter in predicting persistence, but so do the choices students make and the availability of resources to support those choices. A critical finding of the authors' study is that law schools play a key role in fostering public interest careers: nurturing students by providing the experiences and tools they need to navigate the job market and persevere over the course of their professional lives.
Our guest will offer recommendations for law schools to build on current programs in support of public interest careers.
