Top Producers of New Law Teachers, 2003-2007

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March 19, 2008

Utilizing the data that Larry Solum has compiled for four years on where newly hired law teachers earned their first degree (here, here, here, and here), I've compiled a list of the top producers of new law teachers during this time period. (Note: Solum's listings aren't comprehensive, as some appointments do not get reported to him. I've no reason to think this favors one school as against any other.) Next to the name of each school appears the “per capita” number, which provides a comparative measure of success at placing graduates in law teaching. The “per capita” number is the total number of graduates placed in law teaching jobs over the last four year divided by the typical, recent class size, rounded to the nearest 25. (This is not, obviously, a real per capita number, but it does make comparisons of relative success rates possible.) The other two columns in the chart below are self-explanatory. The second chart ranks the schools by total placement, since it is generally helpful to have a lot of graduates of one’s school already in law teaching (institutional loyalty, perception of the school as a “feeder” school for law teaching, etc.).

Note that Solum's data, and my aggregation of it here, do not control for quality of the school at which graduates are hired, or for the number of graduates who earned other degrees from other institutions prior to securing a post in law teaching. The results below may be usefully compared with the results of an earlier study (from 2006) which did control for these factors: Brian Leiter's Best Law Schools for the "Best" Jobs in Law Teaching.

The results are not significantly different, however.

I. "Per Capita" Placement in Law Teaching, 2003-2007

Rank	School	"Per Capita" Score	Total Number Placed, 2003-2007	Class Size
1	Yale University	.43	86	200
2	Harvard University	.18	101	550
3	Stanford University	.17	29	175
4	University of Chicago	.15	29	200
5	Columbia University	.10	39	375
6	New York University	.07	33	450
	University of California, Berkeley	.07	20	275
	University of Virginia	.07	26	375
9	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	.06	22	375
	University of Pennsylvania	.06	14	250
11	Duke University	.05	10	200
12	Georgetown University	.03	16	575
	Northwestern University	.03	7	250
	University of California, Los Angeles	.03	8	250
	University of Kansas	.03	4	150
	University of Texas, Austin	.03	13	450
	Washington & Lee University	.03	4	150
	Runners-Up
	Cornell University	.02	4	200
	Tulane University	.02	6	275
	University of Georgia	.02	4	250
	University of Illinois	.02	4	200
	University of Minnesota	.02	4	250
	Vanderbilt University	.02	3	200

II. Total Placement in Law Teaching, 2003-2007

Rank	School	Total Number of Graduates Placed	Class Size
1	Harvard University	101	550
2	Yale University	86	200
3	Columbia University	39	375
4	New York University	33	450
5	Stanford University	29	175
	University of Chicago	29	200
7	University of Virginia	26	375
8	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	22	375
9	University of California, Berkeley	20	275
10	Georgetown University	16	575
11	University of Pennsylvania	14	250
12	University of Texas, Austin	13	450
13	Duke University	10	200
14	University of California, Los Angeles	8	250
15	Northwestern University	7	250
16	Tulane University	6	275
17	University of Minnesota	5	250
18	Cornell University	4	200
	Fordham University	4	400
	University of Georgia	4	250
	University of Illinois	4	200
	Washington & Lee University	4	150

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