Inspirational Quotes
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Legal Education Quotes
Career GrowthLegal EducationLifelong LearningProfessional DevelopmentPublic Service If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn't have time to do.
Academic ChallengesDiscriminationGender EqualityLegal EducationWomen S Rights The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.
Family and CareerLegal EducationMentorshipOvercoming ObstaclesPerseverance At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.