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70 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 829 (1995)
Legal Education and Entry into the Legal Profession: The Role of Race, Gender, and Educational Debt

handle is hein.journals/nylr70 and id is 845 raw text is: ARTICLE LEGAL EDUCATION AND ENTRY INTO THE LEGAL PROFESSION: THE ROLE OF RACE, GENDER, AND EDUCATIONAL DEBT LEWIS A. KORNHAUSER* RiCHARD L. REVF-Sz** Debt burden is routinely cited as the major force driving law school graduates to choose private practice over careers in government or other public-interest settings. In an effort to counter that force and level the playing field with regard to career choice many law schools have developed loan repayment assistance programs. In * Alfred and Gail Engelberg Professor of Law, New York University. ** Professor of Law, New York University, Visiting Professor of Law, 1995-96, Harvard University. This Article could not have been written without the assistance of an unusually large number of people. We thank David Chambers, who provided us with a tape of the Univer- sity of Michigan Law School (UMLS) survey; Dan Nierenberg of the New York University Office of Financial Aid; and Dean John Sexton and the directors and staffs of the Offices of Admissions, Student Financial Services, Information Services, Career Counseling and Placement, and Records and Registration at New York University School of Law (NYU) for their assistance in compiling the data on NYU students. Robert Sauer assisted with the statistical analysis of the data. Nicholas Gall, Michael Gergen, and Ken Stein made the data usable. Jean-Marie Mink provided able assistance with the tables. Bob Gordon assisted in ways too numerous to list. Max Calne, Pamela Hall, Peter Louch, Kate Menendez, Sarah McPherson, Joseph Saunders, and Marcy Sweren provided research assistance. Henry Farber and Daniel Rubinfeld offered advice on several questions of econometrics; they are not responsible for any errors. David Chambers and participants at workshops at NYU, the American Bar Foundation, Boston University School of Law, and Harvard Law School commented on the empirical study. Noel Cunningham advised us on tax matters. Stephen Brown, Jody Rosen Knower, Nancy Morawetz, and Jane Thieberger provided comments on a previous draft. An anonymous donor and the Filomen D'Agostino and Max E. Greenberg Research Fund at New York University School of Law supplied financial support. Our study led to the funding of a $10 million financial aid program at NYU, approxi- mately $5 million of which came from the same anonymous donor who funded the study. Ihe program, which will benefit the classes of 1998,1999, and 2000, will provide innovative forms of financial aid and study the most effective ways of deploying financial aid re- sources. The program has been the subject of considerable attention in the press. See, e.g., William Cells 3d, Free Tuition for Public Service Law, N.Y. Times, Nov. 9, 1994, at A25; Law School Offers Free Tuition in Exchange for Public Service Job, Chi. Tnb., Nov. 10, 1994, at 38; Ken Myers, NYU Offers Free Legal Training for 10 Years in Low-Paying Jobs, Nat'l LJ., Nov. 28, 1994, at A19; Note Book, Chron. Higher Educ., Nov. 16,1994, at A39; NYU Experiment Offers Free Education, A.B.A. J., Feb. 1995, at 20; NYU's SIO Million Plan, Am. Law., June 1995, at 16. Neither the anonymous donor nor the administrators at NYU influenced in any way the manner in which we carried out this study. 829 Imaged with the Permission of N.Y.U. Law Review

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