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Harvard Law School officials announced yesterday that the school will eliminate tuition for third-year law students who commit to spending five years in either public-interest law or the public sector...
Like many other top law schools, Harvard already has a major loan forgiveness program for students who choose to take public-interest jobs...
Jessica S. Budnitz, a Law School lecturer who received the Gary Bellow Public Service Award in 2003, said the program was “a fabulous step...to encourage our students to do public-interest work and promote social justice causes...
...Peter A. Winograd, a graduate of the Law School and a professor at the University of New Mexico, noted that many of the people entering public-interest law are motivated by non-pecuniary reasons anyway, though the initiative would provide “further encouragement...
...very early exposure to the stakes involved at the Presidential level when I was sent by the Securities and Exchange Commission to assist in an aspect of the Watergate prosecution. So I've been sort of engaged in things ever since. I was chairman of Common Cause, the public-interest lobby founded by John Gardner, and on the board of Washington advocacy groups which espouse reasonable gun laws, reproductive freedom, women's and family health issues and the like...