Association of American Law Schools

Statistical Report on Law School Faculty And Candidates for Law Faculty Positions

2002-03

Prepared by Richard A. White, AALS Research Associate/Data Analyst

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Updated Faculty Data for Last Thirteen Years – 1990-91 through 2002-03

Updated law faculty data for the past thirteen years are included in Appendix A, Table 2C. These data should be used to revise data presented in Table 1A in previous AALS Statistical Reports.

Percentages of law faculty with missing ethnic/racial information have been decreased by searching for these data across all thirteen years included in the AALS historic databases. For example, an individual may not have provided ethnic information in 1992-93, but did provide it in 1995-96. The revision allows the 1995-96 data to be included in the 1992-93 statistics. The reverse also may have occurred; a person may not have provided ethnic information in 2000-01, but did provide it in 1996-97. The results show statistics with significantly lower percentages of missing data for all thirteen years (e.g., in the 2001-02 Statistical Report, 8.5 percent of that year’s faculty were missing ethnic/racial information; in the revised data, that percentage was reduced to 7.1 percent and the percentage of minority faculty increased from 14.6 percent to 14.7 percent).

New Faculty in the 2002-2003 Directory of Law Teachers

Four hundred eighty-eight (488) new law faculty members are listed in the 2002-03 Directory; i.e., they were not listed in the previous year. This does not include new assistant and associate deans and excludes all faculty members at The Judge Advocate General’s School. Table 3A categorizes the new faculty by title and shows minority and gender composition. Just under half (48.8%) are women and 20.8 percent of those for whom ethnic/racial information is available belong to a minority group.

Note that racial/ethnic information is missing for 35.9 percent of the new faculty. Because the AALS data collection process occurs during the late spring and summer preceding the fall term when new faculty begin teaching, many new faculty do not have the opportunity to complete the data collection forms themselves. In these cases, the law schools generally provide only name and title for the new faculty. The updated new faculty tables for earlier years (see Appendix B) provide more complete ethnic/racial data.