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Title: Immigrant Lawyers and the Changing Face of the U.S. Legal Profession

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: Lazarus-Black and Globokar examine the work both of foreign applicants to two LL.M. programs and of the law school administrators and faculty who decide "Who's in [and] Who's Out." The LL.M. admissions process is an increasingly important determinant of the overall volume and composition of law school enrollments. At stake are the futures not only of the individual applicants, but also of law schools. In this Comment, I extend Lazarus-Black and Globokar's analysis further downstream to consider the stakes for the U.S. Legal procession as a whole. Gatekeepers to LL.M. programs are doing far more than determining individual fates and collectively shaping the future of U.S. legal education. I will demonstrate in this Comment that their work helps shape - in concrete, measurable ways- the demographic composition of the U.S. legal profession. In so doing, I will contribute to the emerging field of legal demography, which refers to the study of lawyers through the analysis of data not collected for this specific purpose.

Url: http://www.indiana.edu/~emsoc/Publications/Michelson_immigrant_lawyers.pdf

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Authors: Michelson, Ethan

Periodical (Full): Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Issue: 1

Volume: 22

Pages: 105-111

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Methodology and Data Collection, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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