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2013

Juris Doctorate

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Legal Education For All (Or More Than Just Lawyers), Carol A. Parker Sep 2013

Legal Education For All (Or More Than Just Lawyers), Carol A. Parker

Faculty Scholarship

Virtually every sector of today's economy would benefit from employing workers with more than superficial knowledge of the law. Fields potentially ripe for the concept include health-care policy, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, public affairs, banking, and environmental sciences, to name just a few. An interdisciplinary approach would provide graduates of these new programs with greater access to the job markets of interdisciplinary partners—something that traditional joint degrees based on combining the J.D. program with master's degrees from other disciplines rarely do.