Committee on the Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Teachers’ Commentary and Statistical Report

October 17, 2005

MEMORANDUM 05-33

TO:	Deans of Member and Fee-Paid Schools
FROM:	Elizabeth Hayes Patterson
SUBJECT:	Committee on the Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Teachers' Commentary and Statistical Report

Enclosed you will find a copy of “The Promotion, Retention, and Tenuring of Law School Faculty: Comparing Faculty Hired in 1990 and 1991 to Faculty Hired in 1996 and 1997,” a statistical report prepared by Richard A. White, accompanied by “The Racial Gap in the Promotion to Tenure of Law Professors,” the Commentary of the AALS Committee on the Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Teachers. Both are available on our website at http://www.aals.org/racialgap.html.

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