2002-03
Prepared by Richard A. White, AALS Research Associate/Data Analyst
Updated New Faculty Data for Last Thirteen Years – 1990-91 through 2002-03
Updated data showing the gender and minority composition of the cohort of new law faculty for each of the past thirteen years is included in Appendix B, Table 4C. These data should be used to revise data presented in Table 3A and Tables 4, 4A, and 4B in previous AALS Statistical Reports.
Data on new law school faculty have been revised in two ways. First, the additional ethnic/racial information had a significant effect on these statistics. Second, the numbers of faculty included as “new faculty” are lower for some years in the revised tables. In previous reports, some of the “new faculty” data included faculty at new AALS member or fee-paid schools who were not actually new to law teaching. The revised statistics eliminate these individuals from the “new faculty” data. The revised tables show substantial changes (e.g., in the 2001-02 Statistical Report, 31.7 percent of that year’s “new faculty” were missing ethnic/racial information; in the revised data, that percentage was reduced to 19.0 percent; and the percentage of minority “new faculty” decreased from 24.5 percent to 22.9 percent).
Candidates in the AALS Faculty Appointments Register, 2002-2003
Table 5A shows the gender composition of the 927 candidates for law faculty positions who had resumes in the 2002-03 Faculty Appointments Register. Some candidates are in both a fall and winter distribution of the Register, but are counted only once in these statistics. Two hundred ninety-seven (32.7%) of the candidates who provided gender information are women.
Table 5B shows the number of candidates by ethnic/racial group and gender. Overall, 19.5 percent of those who reported ethnic/racial origin belong to a minority group, 25.5 percent of the women and 16.5 percent of the men.
| TABLE 5A, Candidates in the 2002-03 Faculty Appointments Register by Gender | Number/Percentage | |
| Total Number of Candidates in the FAR | 927 | |
| Number with Gender Not Identified | 20 | |
| Number Identified as Men | 610 | |
| Number Identified as Women | 297 | |
| Percent Women of Those Reporting Gender | 32.7 | |
| Includes only gender information reported by candidates in the Faculty Appointments Register. |
| TABLE 5B, Candidates in the 2002-03 Faculty Appointments Register by Ethnic Group | Women | Men | No Gender Stated | Total | |
| American Indian or Alaskan Native | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | |
| Black | 44 | 26 | 1 | 71 | |
| ---Asian | 9 | 20 | 0 | 29 | |
| ---Pacific Islander | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| All Asian/Pacific Islander | 9 | 20 | 0 | 29 | |
| ---Chicano | 3 | 5 | 0 | 8 | |
| ---Puerto Rican | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| ---Other Hispanic-American | 1 | 12 | 0 | 13 | |
| All Hispanic | 4 | 20 | 0 | 24 | |
| Other Minority | 12 | 27 | 0 | 39 | |
| White | 210 | 487 | 0 | 697 | |
| No Ethnic Origin Stated | 15 | 27 | 19 | 61 | |
| TOTAL | 297 | 610 | 20 | 927 | |
| Total Identified as Minority | 72 | 96 | 1 | 169 | |
| Percent Minority of Those Reporting Ethnic | 25.5 | 16.5 | 100.0 | 19.5 | |
| Includes only gender/ethnic information reported by candidates in the Faculty Appointments Register. |
| Candidates identified as 'white' and a single minority ethnic group are categorized with the minority group. |
| Candidates identified with multiple minority ethnic groups are categorized with the 'other minority' group. |
Faculty Appointments Register Candidates, 1990-91 through 2002-03
Tables 6A and 6B provide a twelve-year comparison of the gender and ethnic/minority group composition of the pools of candidates listed in the Faculty Appointments Register. Both gender and minority percentages have been relatively stable. The percentage of women was highest (37.4%) in 1995-96 and lowest (30.0%) in 2000-2001. The minority percentage reached its high of 21.4 percent in 1996-97 and 1997-98; it remained above 20 percent through 2000-01 and dropped to 19.4 percent in 2001-02 and 19.5 percent in 2002-03.
| TABLE 6A (Year 2002-03), 13 Year Comparison: Faculty Appointments Register Candidates--by Gender (Part 1) | Register Year | |||||||
| 1990-91 | 1991-92 | 1992-93 | 1993-94 | 1994-95 | 1995-96 | 1996-97 | ||
| Total Number of Candidates in the FAR | 967 | 1077 | 1141 | 1257 | 1201 | 1076 | 957 | |
| Number with Gender Not Identified | 83 | 88 | 157 | 69 | 76 | 75 | 80 | |
| Number Identified as Men | 614 | 675 | 652 | 762 | 746 | 627 | 584 | |
| Number Identified as Women | 270 | 314 | 332 | 426 | 379 | 374 | 293 | |
| Percent Women of those with Gender Identified | 30.5 | 31.7 | 33.7 | 35.9 | 33.7 | 37.4 | 33.4 | |
| 2002-03 data includes only gender information reported by candidates in the Faculty Appointments Register. |
| For earlier years, gender information has been updated (Spring 2003) using Directory of Law Teachers data. |
| TABLE 6A (Year 2002-03), 13 Year Comparison: Faculty Appointments Register Candidates--by Gender (Part 2) |
Register Year | ||||||
| 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-00 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | ||
| Total Number of Candidates in the FAR | 902 | 840 | 853 | 769 | 793 | 927 | |
| Number with Gender Not Identified | 65 | 72 | 19 | 12 | 15 | 20 | |
| Number Identified as Men | 530 | 508 | 555 | 530 | 518 | 610 | |
| Number Identified as Women | 307 | 260 | 279 | 227 | 260 | 297 | |
| Percent Women of those with Gender Identified | 36.7 | 33.9 | 33.5 | 30.0 | 33.4 | 32.7 | |
| 2002-03 data includes only gender information reported by candidates in the Faculty Appointments Register. |
| For earlier years, gender information has been updated (Spring 2003) using Directory of Law Teachers data. |
| TABLE 6B (Year 2002-03), 13 Year Comparison: Faculty Appointments Register Candidates--by Ethnic Group (Part 1) | Register Year | |||||||
| 1990-91 | 1991-92 | 1992-93 | 1993-94 | 1994-95 | 1995-96 | 1996-97 | ||
| American Indian or Alaskan Native | 4 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 13 | |
| Black | 66 | 87 | 79 | 94 | 88 | 63 | 69 | |
| ---Asian | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | |
| ---Pacific Islander | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | |
| All Asian/Pacific Islander | 14 | 21 | 31 | 37 | 33 | 32 | 32 | |
| ---Chicano | . | . | . | 9 | 11 | 12 | 10 | |
| ---Puerto Rican | . | . | . | 10 | 6 | 5 | 3 | |
| ---Other Hispanic-American | . | . | . | 12 | 13 | 20 | 19 | |
| All Hispanic | 33 | 26 | 30 | 31 | 30 | 37 | 32 | |
| Other Minority | 3 | 11 | 11 | 18 | 15 | 15 | 24 | |
| White | 702 | 756 | 796 | 963 | 935 | 743 | 624 | |
| No Ethnic Origin Stated | 145 | 173 | 186 | 107 | 95 | 176 | 163 | |
| TOTAL | 967 | 1077 | 1141 | 1257 | 1201 | 1076 | 957 | |
| Total Identified as Minority | 120 | 148 | 159 | 187 | 171 | 157 | 170 | |
| Percent Minority of Those Reporting Eth. | 14.6 | 16.4 | 16.6 | 16.3 | 15.5 | 17.4 | 21.4 | |
| 2002-03 data includes only gender/ethnic information reported by candidates in the Faculty Appointments Register. |
| For earlier years, gender/ethnic information has been updated (Spring 2003) using Directory of Law Teachers data. |
| Candidates identified as 'white' and a single minority ethnic group are categorized with the minority group. |
| Candidates identified with multiple minority ethnic groups are categorized with the 'other minority' group. |
| TABLE 6B (Year 2002-03), 13 Year Comparison: Faculty Appointments Register Candidates--by Ethnic Group (Part 2) | Register Year | ||||||
| 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-00 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | ||
| American Indian or Alaskan Native | 14 | 14 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 6 | |
| Black | 73 | 59 | 67 | 54 | 60 | 71 | |
| ---Asian | . | . | . | 24 | 22 | 29 | |
| ---Pacific Islander | . | . | . | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
| All Asian/Pacific Islander | 27 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 23 | 29 | |
| ---Chicano | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | |
| ---Puerto Rican | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | |
| ---Other Hispanic-American | 18 | 12 | 14 | 18 | 14 | 13 | |
| All Hispanic | 26 | 20 | 18 | 26 | 19 | 24 | |
| Other Minority | 20 | 23 | 44 | 30 | 32 | 39 | |
| White | 587 | 539 | 611 | 580 | 600 | 697 | |
| No Ethnic Origin Stated | 155 | 161 | 80 | 42 | 49 | 61 | |
| TOTAL | 902 | 840 | 853 | 769 | 793 | 927 | |
| Total Identified as Minority | 160 | 140 | 162 | 147 | 144 | 169 | |
| Percent Minority of Those Reporting Eth. | 21.4 | 20.6 | 21.0 | 20.2 | 19.4 | 19.5 | |
| 2002-03 data includes only gender/ethnic information reported by candidates in the Faculty Appointments Register. |
| For earlier years, gender/ethnic information has been updated (Spring 2003) using Directory of Law Teachers data. |
| Candidates identified as 'white' and a single minority ethnic group are categorized with the minority group. |
| Candidates identified with multiple minority ethnic groups are categorized with the 'other minority' group. |