Field The opportunity to study
law for many represents a significant step up the social ladder. For
law students, the decision to become a human rights
lawyer can be a luxury, because it is traditional
lawyering or scholarship that can best guarantee status and economic independence. Choosing public international
law, and in particular human rights
law, as trajectory means taking the risk of settling with less money than a corporate
lawyer. Likewise, to be a critical scholar or practitioner takes some sort of security of livelihood, not only with a...