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...powered, high-paying jobs of corporate America, Havard Law School (HLS) recently announced a new initiative aimed at incentivizing public interest law. The plan eliminates tuition payments for the third year of law school for any student who commits to spending the first five years after graduation in public sector or public interest...
Currently, roughly 60 to 80 students, out of a class of 550, enter the public sector upon graduating. For many, the seemingly insurmountable debt accumulated from years of tuition make low-paying public-interest jobs simply untenable. Some students who enter public interest law now are forgiven of their loans after graduating, but the loan forgiveness program hardly provides explicit encouragement for this branch of law. The new program seeks to rectify that by guaranteeing a tuition-free third year—a psychological frame shift that will hopefully make a public sector career seem more manageable in terms...
...student’s freedom to explore other types of law while in school—something that the summer internship requirement may do. In addition to committing five post-graduation years to public interest work, the program requires that students spend their two summers working in the public sector (see correction). While such a stipulation clearly is intended to demonstrate a student’s commitment to the field, it comes at a cost: the pedagogical value of exploring other fields of law, from corporate litigation to criminal practice. The aims of the program, however, are certainly noble...
...Mendillo’s long history in endowment management—she has spent almost her entire career managing academic portfolios—may provide a measure of security to those concerned by the prospect of losing managers to higher salaries in the private sector...
...Friday, in what has become a daily occurrence, rockets or mortars slammed into the Green Zone, the heavily fortified central Baghdad sector that houses U.S. diplomats and the Iraqi government. One of the attacks hit the compound of the Sunni politician Tariq al-Hashimi, one of Iraq's vice presidents. The New York Times reported that one of his security guards had been killed. U.S. Embassy staff have been instructed to limit the time they spend outdoors and to wear helmets, flak vests and eye protection when they leave hardened structures...