Description
In 1986, 70 percent of the first-year class of Harvard Law School wanted to pursue careers in public-interest law. Ten years later, the same percentage of this class was once pursuing careers in private corporate firms. How is it that these students began their careers interested in the use of law as a vehicle for social change, but ended up in those very law firms most resistant to change? How are law students in a position to reconcile liberal politics with careers in corporate law?
Richard D. Kahlenberg’s Broken Contract serves to warn prospective law students on the transformation that happens all over the second one and third years. His memoir explores the intense competitiveness and insidious pressure leading to jobs that are lucrative, prestigious, and challenging–but in the long run unsatisfying.
Though Broken Contract doesn’t are searching for to convince each law student to enter public service, Kahlenberg means to challenge and restructure our social institutions to make it easier to follow our impulses toward good as a substitute of toward the goods.