In 1988, Black women law professors formed the Northeast Corridor Collective of Black
Women Law Professors, a network of Black women in the legal academy. They supported …

We study the progress of women's representation and achievement in law schools. To do
this, we assemble a new dataset on the number of women and men students, faculty, and …

Using data on the population of US sociology doctorates over a five-year period, we
examine different predictors of placement in research-oriented, tenure-track academic …

We study the ideological balance of the legal academy and compare it with the ideology of
the legal profession more broadly. To do so, we match professors listed in the Association of …

American law schools began hiring Ph. Ds no later than the early ig6os.'In 1975, the
proportion was not yet large enough for Donna Fossum to include Ph. Ds as a category in …

Recent pedagogical, economic, and technological changes require law schools to
reevaluate their resource allocations. Although typically viewed in terms of curricular …

Do you want to teach at a Top Ten-ranked law school? If so, you had better excel at
something you will encounter years before you even consider applying to be a law …

Throughout US legal education's history, a small number of elite law schools have produced
the vast majority of law professors. Although law professor hiring is now more inclusive in …

Legal academia is in existential crisis, or so it's been argued in books, blogs, and The New
Tork Times. 1 To the degree the concerns arise from very high tuition costs and too many …

Undertaking empirical research in law can be a daunting task, one for which current
undergraduate and postgraduate legal education does not provide a great deal of …