Nino Monea
Degree
- Bachelor's degree, highest honors - double major: economics and public law and government (EMU, 2014)
Current position
- Law student - Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Extracurricular at EMU
- Fed Challenge (2014)
- Member of ECON Club
- Economics and general tutor
- Six symposium presentations
- Internship with Congressman Hansen Clarke
- Student Government (vice president 2013–2014)
- Mock trial teams
- Moot Court
- Model United Nations
Scholarships, honors, research
- Graduated Summa cum Laude with highest honors (4.0 Cumulative GPA)
- Highest Undergraduate GPA (2014)
- Regents Scholarship
- Symposium Undergraduate Research Fellow Award
- David Hortin Scholarship
- Robert McWilliams Scholarship
- "Health Care Cost Inflation: A Policy Analysis"
EMU economics experience
"Having an econ background has been invaluable for law school. Not only do economics students score better on the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT), but virtually all law professors implement law and economics into their classes. In my first year, we've looked at production functions, externalities and a massive amount of cost-benefit analysis. People often joke that being a lawyer is the best job you can get without knowing math, but in truth, having even an introductory background in math from econ helps a lot with understanding a lot of areas of law, such as calculating damages. Policy oriented econ classes have also given me a head start on topics such as risk-wage premium and Quality Life Years. I am also doing research with a professor whose background was in statistics, so a class like econometrics has been useful to allow me to understand the statistical terms we use."
"The great thing about economics is that it's more than just a set of facts; it's a way of thinking. The tools you learn through economics can be applied to virtually any problem that you face."