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Thanks in advance...

While in LS, you can apparently "concentrate" in something like Corporate Law, Public Policy Law, Law & Race, etc...

I'm guessing that this is a pretty informal process and that you don't actually declare a concentration like one would an undergraduate major. I imagine that I would be most interested in the "softer" concentrations (Law & Race, Public Policy, etc) than I would corporate, transactional, etc.

Does this look worse to Law Firms during OCI than a concentration in corporate law?

No intel?

Basically my question is does it matter if you take all corporate law electives vs. all policy law/legal history/etc electives to OCI interviewers? Grades being equal.

It's informal as in you choose the courses you want to take. The concentrations are just suggestions of courses in certain areas you might want to take. The grouping matches a certain area of the law. You can use them as a guide to pick your classes.

OCI firms only see your 1L classes. I suppose you can put what you registered for on your transcript, but many (if not most) of us are changing courses during drop/add (after OCI). I don't think firms care much.

Got it... forgot that everyone takes the same 1L classes. Thanks.