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Ronit Dinovitzer

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Faculty Fellow

  • 750 N. Lake Shore Drive
  • 4th Floor
  • Chicago, IL 60611

Joint appointment

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Toronto

Research focus

The sociology of law, with a particular interest in the legal profession, focusing on the sources of inequality within the profession and the mechanisms that produce and reproduce them. Recent work has examined the gender gap in lawyer incomes, the distribution of lawyer satisfaction, and the career trajectories of urban law school graduates.

Projects

After the JD
Latest finding: Jan 4, 2010, with Bryant G. Garth, Robert L. Nelson, Joyce Sterling
The After the JD (AJD) project is an empirical study of the career outcomes of a cohort of almost 5,000 new lawyers, offering both a nationally representative picture of lawyer career trajectories…

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Commentary

Not That Into You: Why Are Associates So Unhappy - American Lawyer Sept. 1, 2009

Sep 4, 2009

Ronit Dinovitzer and Bryant Garth, "Not That Into You: Why are associates so unhappy? The answer my lie not in the nature of their jobs, but in the associates themselves," The American Lawyer,…

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Publications

“Not that into You”
American Lawyer
Cover of After the JD II: Second Results from a National Study of Legal Careers After the JD II: Second Results from a National Study of Legal Careers
American Bar Foundation and The NALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education
“The Symbolic Violence of the Crime-Immigration Nexus: Mobility Mythologies in the Americas”
Crime Prevention and Policy

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Presentations

Settling into the Legal Profession: Elite Advantage, Opportunities for Upward Mobility, and the Paradox of Elites and Large Law Firms
May 2009 Bryant G. Garth
Making Sense of the Elite Law School Advantage: Symbolic Capital and the Structuring of Opportunities, Expectations, Hopes, and Choices
May 2009 Bryant G. Garth
The First Seven Years of a Lawyer’s Career
Feb 2009 Bryant G. Garth, Robert L. Nelson, J. Sterling and D. Wilkins

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Professional Service & Recognition

  • Secretary/Treasurer, American Sociological Association, Sociology of Law Section, 2009-2011
  • Co-Chair, Graduate Student Workshop Committee, Law & Society Association, 2008-2009
  • Regular Session Organizer, American Sociological Association, 2009
  • Program Committee, American Society of Criminology, 2008-9
  • Member, Editorial Board, Law & Social Inquiry, 2005-2010.
  • Ad hoc reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • Member, International Prize Committee, Law & Society Association
  • Member, Article Prize Committee, Sociology of Law Section, American Sociological Association
  • Dean's Merit Award, University of Toronto, 2007