Our Bicentennial Crisis: A Call to Action for Harvard Law School’s Public Interest Mission

Harvard Law School’s stated mission is to educate leaders who contribute to the advancement of justice and the well-being of society. But with only one-fifth of graduates pursuing public interest work after law school, Harvard Law is falling short of its mission. In this comprehensive call to action, Pete Davis examines the source of this civic deficit and proposes what, in Harvard Law’s third century, the school community can do to rectify it.