Association of American Law Schools

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

2001-2002

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CONTENTS

• Revisions to Data Presented in Earlier AALS Statistical Reports
• All Full-Time Faculty in the 2001-02 Directory of Law Teachers
• Women and Minority Faculty: Twelve Year Comparison
• Updated Law Faculty Data, 1990-91 through 2001-02 & New Faculty in the 2001-02 Directory of Law Teachers
• New Law Faculty: Twelve Year Comparison
• Updated New Law Faculty Data, 1990-91 through 2001-02
• Candidates in the AALS Faculty Appointments Register, 2001-02
• Faculty Appointments Register Candidates, 1990-91 through 2001-02
• Success Rates of Faculty Appointments Register Candidates, 1990-91 through 2000-01
• New Law Faculty Listed in the Faculty Appointments Register, 1991-92 through 2001-02
• Appendix A - Updated Tables, Law Faculty Data, 1990-91 through 2001-02
• Appendix B - Updated Tables, New Law Faculty Data, 1990-91 through 2001-02

TABLES

• 1A All Faculty in the 2001-02 Directory of Law Teachers
• 1B All Faculty in the 2001-02 Directory of Law Teachers by ethnic group & gender
• 2A Twelve-Year Comparison: Women Law Faculty in the Directory of Law Teachers
• 2B Twelve-Year Comparison: Minority Law Faculty in the Directory of Law Teachers
• 2C Updated Last 12 Years: All Law Faculty (Appendix A)
• 3A New Faculty in the 2001-02 Directory of Law Teachers
• 3B New Faculty in the 2001-02 Directory of Law Teachers by ethnic group & gender
• 4A Twelve-Year Comparison: New Women Faculty in the Directory of Law Teachers
• 4B Twelve-Year Comparison: New Minority Faculty in the Directory of Law Teachers
• 4C Updated Last 12 Years: New Law Faculty (Appendix B)
• 5A Candidates in the 2001-02 Faculty Appointments Register by gender
• 5B Candidates in the 2001-02 Faculty Appointments Register by ethnic group
• 6A Twelve-Year Comparison: Faculty Appointments Register Candidates by gender
• 6B Twelve-Year Comparison: Faculty Appointments Register Candidates by ethnic group
• 7A Eleven-Year Comparison: Success Rates of FAR Candidates
• 7B Eleven-Year Comparison: Success Rates of FAR Candidates by gender
• 7C Eleven-Year Comparison: Success Rates of FAR Candidates by minority status
• 7D Eleven-Year Comparison: Success Rates of FAR Candidates by ethnic group
• 7E Eleven-Year Comparison: Success Rates of FAR Candidates by minority-gender
• 8A Eleven-Year Comparison: New Assoc. & Asst. Profs. Listed in FAR
• 8B Eleven-Year Comparison: New Assoc. & Asst. Profs. Listed in FAR by gender
• 8C Eleven-Year Comparison: New Assoc. & Asst. Profs. Listed in FAR by minority status
• 8D Eleven-Year Comparison: New Assoc. & Asst. Profs. Listed in FAR by ethnic group
• 8E Eleven-Year Comparison: New Assoc. & Asst. Profs. Listed in FAR by minority-gender

Revisions to Data Presented in Earlier AALS Statistical Reports

In addition to showing the 2001-02 data on law school faculty and candidates for law faculty positions, this report includes revised data from previous years (1990-91 through 2000-01). These data should be used to replace the data presented in earlier AALS Statistical Reports. All of the statistics shown in these tables have been revised. The revisions include the following.

•  Percentages of law faculty with missing ethnic/racial information have been decreased by searching for these data across all twelve years included in the AALS historical 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 twelve years (e.g., for 2000-01, the 9.4 percent of faculty with missing ethnic/racial information was reduced to 7.2 percent; and the percentage of minority faculty increased from 13.8 percent to 14.2 percent). Table 2C (Appendix A) updates Table 1A for the previous 11 years.

•  Data on new law school faculty has 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., for 2000-01, the 43.0 percent of "new faculty" with missing ethnic/racial information was reduced to 19.5 percent; and the percentage of minority "new faculty" increased from 18.0 percent to 20.2 percent). Table 4C (Appendix B) updates Table 3A and Table 4 in Statistical Reports for previous years.

•  Categorization of persons identifying themselves as belonging to multiple ethnic/racial groups has been changed. Previously, all those selecting more than one group were categorized in the statistical reports as "Other Minority." In the revised tables, persons identified as "White" and a single minority group are categorized with the minority group (e.g., "White and Asian" is categorized as "Asian"); and only those identified with multiple minority groups are categorized with the "Other Minority" group (e.g., "Black and Asian" and "Black and Hispanic and White" are categorized as "Other Minority").

•  Historical statistics and analyses of Faculty Appointments Register candidates also have been revised by adding ethnic/racial information from the twelve years of historic Directory of Law Teachers data, and by re-categorizing persons belonging to multiple ethnic/racial groups (as described above). Tables 6A and 6B update data presented in earlier Reports in Tables 5A, 5B, 6A, and 6B. Tables 7A-E and 8A-E update analyses shown previously in those tables. Tables 8A-E show particularly notable revisions due to the substantial changes in the "new law faculty" data.

All Full-Time Faculty in the 2001-2002 Directory of Law Teachers

The AALS Directory of Law Teachers, 2001-2002 includes demographic information on the 9,343 full-time faculty members of 185 law schools. The 164 AALS member and 21 fee-paid law schools include all of the law schools on the approved list of the American Bar Association. Table 1A shows the gender and minority composition of that group within 12 faculty title categories.

The first column shows the "total number" of faculty in each of the title groups and the second column indicates the percentages of those numbers that are women. Overall, 33.4 percent of all faculty in the AALS Directory are women. Nearly half (49.6 %) of assistant professors and 47.5 percent of associate professors are women; 24.0 percent of professors are women. Higher percentages of lecturers/instructors (66.1%), assistant deans without professor titles (69.4%), assistant deans with professor titles (64.7%), and associate deans without professor titles (58.9%) are women. Twelve and one-half percent of law school deans are women.

The numbers with ethnic/racial information available are shown in the third column and the percentages with missing ethnic data are shown in the fourth column. The minority and minority-gender percentages are calculated in terms of the faculty for whom ethnic/racial information is available. The fifth column shows that 14.6 percent of all faculty for whom ethnic/racial information is available are members of minority groups. More than one-fourth of assistant professors (27.4 %) and associate professors (25.2 %) belong to minority groups; 12.0 percent of professors belong to minority groups. The minority percentage of lecturers/instructors (13.6%) is lower than those for assistant and associate professors, as are the percentages of associate deans without professor titles (14.2%), associate deans with professor titles (12.4%), and assistant deans with professor titles (11.8%). The minority percentage of assistant deans without professor titles (24.2%) is similar to those for assistant and associate professors. Nine percent of the 178 law school deans with ethnic/racial information belong to minority groups.

Table 1B shows the distribution of the faculty across five ethnic groups, American Indian (or Alaskan Native), Asian (or Pacific Islander), Black, Hispanic, and White. Persons identified as "White" and a single minority group are categorized with the minority group (e.g., "White and Asian" is categorized as "Asian"); those identified with multiple minority groups are categorized with the "Other Minority" group (e.g., "Black and Asian" and "Black and Hispanic and White" are categorized as "Other Minority").

For all faculty, the percentages belonging to individual ethnic/racial groups are 0.7 percent American Indian, 2.1 percent Asian, 7.3 percent Black, 3.5 percent Hispanic, 1.1 percent Other Minority, and 85.4 percent White. For assistant professors, the percentages are 1.5 percent American Indian, 3.9 percent Asian, 11.5 percent Black, 7.8 percent Hispanic, 2.7 percent Other Minority, and 72.6 percent White. For associate professors, they are 1.2 percent American Indian, 3.8 percent Asian, 13.5 percent Black, 4.8 percent Hispanic, 2.0 percent Other Minority, and 74.8 percent White. And for professors, they are 0.5 percent American Indian, 1.8 percent Asian, 5.9 percent Black, 2.9 percent Hispanic, 0.9 percent Other Minority, and 88.0 percent White.

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