Talk to some people you look up to and ask them about their lives and careers to see what worked for them and what didn't. Talking to your favorite teachers is a good place to start.

Day to Day

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Interested in pursuing a career in human rights? Explore the different avenues and options available that best match your interests. 

Career

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Get a jump start on what you want do in college or test your interest before you get there by taking a class in law! What are you most looking forward to learning about?

Education

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Law Professors

Teach courses in law. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Third Interest High-Point

First Interest High-Point

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Second Interest High-Point

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

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Law Teachers, Postsecondary

Law, Criminal Justice, and Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary

Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Postsecondary Teachers

Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, papers, and oral presentations.

Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.

Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as civil procedure, contracts, and torts.

Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.

Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.

Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.

Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.

Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.

Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.

Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.

Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.

Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks.

Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.

Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.

Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.

Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.

Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.

Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.

Participate in campus and community events.

Act as advisers to student organizations.

Assign cases for students to hear and try.

Provide professional consulting services to government or industry.

Write grant proposals to procure external research funding.

Carousel slide projectors

Compact digital cameras

Compact disk CD players

Computer data input scanners

Computer laser printers

Computer projectors

Conference telephones

Desktop computers

Digital calculators

Digital video cameras

Digital video disk DVD players

Handheld microphones

Interactive whiteboard controllers

Interactive whiteboards

Laptop computers

Laser facsimile machines

Liquid crystal display LCD projectors

Liquid crystal display LCD televisions

Microphone podiums

MP3 digital voice recorders

Multi-line telephone systems

Multimedia projection equipment

Opaque projectors

Overhead data projectors

Photocopying equipment

Poster printers

Projector screens

Student response systems

Tablet computers

Television monitors

Universal serial bus USB flash drives

Videoconferencing equipment

Webcams

Wireless microphones

ACD Systems Canvas

Blackboard Learn

Calendar and scheduling software

Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction CALI Author

Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction CALI Classcaster

Collaborative editing software

Collateral Consequences Calculator

Course management system software

CT Summation iBlaze

Data entry software

Desire2Learn

DOC Cop

Email software

ExamSoft Exam Intelligence

Google Docs

Image scanning software

iParadigms Turnitin

Learning management system LMS

LexisNexis

LexisNexis CaseMap

LexisNexis HotDocs

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Publisher

Microsoft Word

Panopto

Piazza

Sakai CLE

Thomson Reuters WestlawNext Litigator

Thomson West Westlaw

Web browser software

As a Puerto Rican kid in New York, going to some terrible schools, nobody ever told me as a kid that I could amount to much at all.

Professor of Law

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Thomas Nazario

Professor of Law

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Thomas Nazario

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My work combines:

My work combines:

Education

Law

Helping People

Hurdles

Challenges I Overcame

First-Generation Immigrant

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