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Updated Faculty Data for Last Twelve Years – 1990-91 through 2001-02

Updated law faculty data for the past twelve 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 twelve 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 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).

New Faculty in the 2001-2002 Directory of Law Teachers

Four hundred thirty-six (436) new faculty are listed in the 2001-2002 Directory; i.e., they were not listed in the previous year. This does not include new assistant and associate deans and excludes all faculty at The Judge Advocate General’s School. Table 3A categorizes the new faculty by title and shows minority and gender composition. More than half (53.2%) are women and 24.5 percent of those for whom ethnic/racial information is available belong to a minority group. Note that racial/ethnic information is missing for 31.7 percent of the new faculty.

The new lecturers and instructors have a higher percentage of women (69.3%). Minority percentages are highest for new visiting professors (31.6%), followed by associate professors (28.6%), assistant professors (26.9%), lecturers/instructors (18.4%), and professors (12.5%). Note the high percentage of missing ethnic data for professors (56.8%) and visiting professors (50.0%). Also note that the professor category of new faculty may be misleading; these may be visiting professors missing that distinction in the data or some professor distinction other than the “full” professor distinction usually associated with the title.

Table 3B shows the new law faculty composition by title, gender, and ethnic group. The ethnic group composition of all new faculty (with ethnic information) is 2.0 percent American Indian or Alaskan Native, 4.4 percent Asian or Pacific Islander, 11.1 percent Black, 5.4 percent Hispanic, 1.7 percent Other Minority, and 75.5 percent White.