This article seeks to identify the mechanisms underlying the gender wage gap among new lawyers. Relying on nationally representative data to examine the salaries of lawyers working fulltime in private practice, we find a gender gap of about 5 percent. Identifying four mechanisms - work profiles,...

There is widespread consensus that the legal profession stands at an important inflection point. Traditional models of professional organization, practice, and education are under increasing pressure to adapt to important changes in the environments in which lawyers work. At the same time, these...

This Foreword introduces a Symposium issue of the Wisconsin Law Review devoted to the New Legal Realism Project. The NLR Project is aimed at developing a sophisticated interdisciplinary approach for translating social science in legal settings. One core focus is combining qualitative and...

This article, a comment on Mindie Lazarus-Black and Julie Globokar's empirically-based article on “Foreign Attorneys in U.S. LL.M. Programs: Who's In, Who's Out, and Who They Are,” seeks to situate U.S. foreign-oriented LLM (and more generally graduate law) programs within a global and even...

This article starts from the useful image of professions as “Lords of the Dance” playing central roles in constructing and managing institutions. Drawing on our own comparative research and Pierre Bourdieu's sociological approach, we present an alternative and in part complementary analysis...

This invited article on the recent debates about the reform of legal education describes some of the ideas and projects that are in the air today, but the larger goal is to relate these proposals to issues of regulation and markets. The discussion necessarily goes beyond requirements for...

Drawing on the sociological tools of Pierre Bourdieu, this chapter traces the role of law in U.S. foreign policy over the course of the twentieth century, showing the rise of the so-called Foreign Policy Establishment led by corporate lawyers representing themselves and their clients - while...

Drawing on sociological research, the article explores the question of "spillover" at national and transnational levels. It asks, in particular, whether both sides of a potential transnational legal order -- the private law side of economic law and corporate law firms on one side, and the world...

On the basis of qualitative interviews as part of the After the J.D. Project, the paper explores the attrition of associates in corporate law firms. One aspect of the paper explores the continuing high attrition among women and minorities and how that is produced. The other aspect focuses on the...