Academic Elite in Law, 1987–1997
| Autor: | Jeffrey H. Bair, Myron Boor |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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| Zdroj: | Psychological Reports. 82:782-782 |
| ISSN: | 1558-691X 0033-2941 |
| DOI: | 10.2466/pr0.1998.82.3.782 |
| Popis: | Of the top-ranked law schools in 1987 as rated by U.S. News and World Report ( 3 ) , 76.9% of their faculty members had obtained their inltlal law degrees from one of these same nine top-ranked schools (2). This suggested these law schools had maintained and enhanced their reputations by hiring their own and one another's graduates. Here, law schools, ranked ten years later by U.S. News and World Report (4) were examined for (a) which of the nine law schools ranked highest in 1987 retained their high rankings in 1997 and (b) which persisted in hiring their own and one another's graduates. The law schools and their respective ranks in 1987 and 1997 are Yale 1 and 1, Harvard 1 and 2, Michigan 3 and 7, Stanford 4 and 4, Columbia 4 and 5, Chicago 6 and 3 , Cahfornia at Berkeley 7 and 8, Virginia 8 and 9, and New York University 9 and 6. Each of the nine schools ranked highest in 1987 was ranked among the top nine schools in 1997 ( p = .71). The names and alma maters of the full-time faculty in these nine schools in 1987 and 1997 were obtained from the 1989 and 1995 editions of The AALS Directory of Law Teachers (1). The median percentage of faculty who had obtained their degrees from their own school or from one of the other eight top-ranked schools in 1997 was 77.1% (range, 66.7%-88.1%); cf. 82.5% (range, 55.0%-90.4%) in 1987. |
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