Law school aims to forge links to other disciplines
It may be getting harder than it used to be to find a lawyer at Yale Law School.
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By (Anonymous)
7:57pm on April 24, 2008
Spiers is a 1985 Yale B.A., summa cum laude.
This focus on the interdisciplinary is also reflected in the hiring of faculty at top law schools. Recently, for example, of Harvard Law School’s recent entry-level hires, 6 out of 7 had (or ere candidates for PhDs. Lateral hires such as Yale's hiring of Prof. Christine Jolls from Harvard and the hiring of Kathryn Spier by Harvard from Northwestern both MIT Ph.D. degree holders in economics are examples of interdisciplinary scholars.
Jolls, with a J.D. degree and having clerked at the Supreme Court and in a Federal Circuit Court also fits the career path of traditional law professors, but Spiers who has published very important and influential papers in the field of law and economics (as has Jolls) though holding no law degree or clerkship perhaps reflects the rise of interdiscipinary scholarship in law faculty career paths even more clearly.
In fact each has published papers in what many think is the top economics Journal, the American Economic Review or AER. Both are interdisciplinary scholars who have the talent, publications and credentials to be top scholars in each their fields -- law school scholarship is better for the addition of them and other such high quality interdisciplinary scholars.