Sample Selection, Methodology and Implications for the Have Nots: A Commentary on Professors Nielsen's and Albitson's 'the Organizational Environment of Public Interest Practice 1975-2000'

Abstract

This is a commentary by Professor Beny on Professors Nielsen's and Albiston's empirial study, "The Organizational Environment of Public Interest Practice: 1975-2000," 84 N.C. L. REV. 102, 116 (2006). Both Nielsen's and Albiston's empirical study and Professor Beny's commentary were presented at the University of North Carolina Law Review Symposium, Empirical Studies of the Legal Profession: What Do We Know About Lawyers' Lives? at the University of North Carolina School of Law, October 2005.

Keywords: public interest, legal profession, empirical methods, the have nots, law and society

JEL Classification: C10, C50, K40, L3