Ohio State's law school recently sent out a brochure announcing new hires, and including a full list of current faculty and where they earned their degrees. It gives one an interesting snapshot of where faculty at one good state law school earned their law degrees:
1. Columbia University (7)
1. Yale University (7)
3. Harvard University (5)
4. New York University (4)
4. University of Michigan (4)
6. University of Chicago (3)
6. University of Texas (3)
And then one member of the faculty each were graduates of the law schools at:
University of Notre Dame
Georgetown University
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh (also had an LLM from Columbia)
University of Virginia
Cornell University
University of Kansas
West Virginia University
Ohio State University
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
Seattle University (with an LLM from Georgetown)
Now compare this with my own institution, the University of Texas School of Law:
1. Yale University (17)
2. Harvard University (14)
3. University of Texas (5)
4. Stanford University (4)
5. Columbia University (2)
5. Georgetown University (2)
5. University of California, Berkeley (2)
5. University of Chicago (2)
5. University of Michigan (2)
5. University of Pennsylvania (2)
5. University of Washington (2)
5. University of Wisconsin (2)
The following schools have one graduate each on the faculty here:
Louisiana State University (with a graduate law degree from Yale)
Northwestern University
University of Minnesota
Washington University, St. Louis (with a graduate law degree from Wisconsin)
Interestingly, if you excluded faculty over 60, then LSU, Wash U, Penn, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Washington would disappear from representation on the faculty—indicating, of course, what anecdotal evidence suggests, namely, (1) an increasing concentration of placement in law teaching by a smaller number of schools, and (2) the changing fortunes of some of these schools over the last generation.
Of course, these are just snapshots; more systematic data is here, though it's largely in line with the snapshots.
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