ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on overlooked difference: the different experiences women and men have of law school. It suggests that the distinction between 'public interest' or 'pro bono' work and other types of legal practice. The chapter shows that law schools ought to respond to students' drift away from public interest commitment. It addresses the skeptic who doubts the significance of law school in students' career choices and reviewing the evidence of waning public interest commitment during law school. The chapter explores the role of law school in transforming law students. It demonstrates and explains the similarity between the accounts of the experience of women at law school and the fate of public interest commitment at law school. The waning of student commitment to the public interest during law school has been well documented. Although concern at the socializing effect of law schools first arose in the 1970s, evidence supports the need for continuing concern.
