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Clark's response--to reiterate his support for public-interest careers and announce a plan for a committee to advise him on the field--has left students saying the new dean's statement address the importance of his decision corporate law scholar, Clark has shown he is out of touch with the school's priorities, according those who criticize him for the move...
Although only about 6 percent of Law School graduates pursue public-interest careers, many more spends summers working for prosecutors and battered women's shelters. Students say a full-time expert on public-interest law is essential because of the difficulty of finding such public service work...
Nearly one-third of the Law School's student body has called on Dean Robert C. Clark to reinstate the school's two public-interest counseling positions, a protest organizer said yesterday...
...receptive" to their opinions--especially when told that Ronald W. Fox '60, the program's director, had steered students toward government jobs and small firms. Clark stressed when he closed the office that he did not want the controversy to become a "we-them" dispute between corporate and public-interest...
...success has spawned a network of allied organizations. Among them: the Pretoria-based Lawyers for Human Rights, which presses private law firms to take public-interest cases; the Black Lawyers' Association and its offshoot the Legal Education Center in Johannesburg; and the Institute for Applied Legal Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. All participate in a thriving exchange of students and professors between the U.S. and South Africa. Says John Dugard, head of the Institute for Applied Legal Studies: "These days, even high-court judges are making study trips to the U.S. Our legal education system is looking more...