As higher and legal education continue to evolve, gaining a comprehensive understanding of law school faculty is increasingly important. To this end, the American Law School Faculty Study provides a snapshot of law teaching and today and is the first of its kind to detail faculty career pathways and work experiences as well as recent hiring trends in legal education.
Primarily drawing on two surveys, one at the school-level and one at the individual-level, this study details analysis of responses from 117 current or acting deans and 1,892 faculty members across 194 AALS member and fee-paid law schools. It was designed to investigate several research questions:
- Who are law school faculty today?
- What are the main career pathways to teaching law?
- What are the current hiring practices of law schools?
- What are the expectations of law faculty for earning tenure?
- What are the job responsibilities of law faculty and how much time do they allocate to each?
- How satisfied are law school faculty with their jobs?
In presenting novel findings about the current legal education landscape, the report offers key insights on law school faculty demographic profiles, professional experiences, and institutional characteristics, such as selectivity and governance.
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