Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2000
Keywords
Law school faculty, Inbred faculty, Noninbred faculty, Empirical legal studies
Disciplines
Applied Statistics | Legal Education | Legal Profession
Abstract
This study compares the scholarly impact of inbred entry-level law school faculty members with the scholarly impact of noninbred entry-level law school faculty members. The sample includes 32 law schools and approximately 700 entry-level faculty members. By our measure of performance, scholarly impact as measured by citation frequency, inbred entry-level law school faculty members do not perform as well as noninbred entry-level faculty members.
Recommended Citation
Eisenberg, Theodore and Wells, Martin T., "Inbreeding in Law School Hiring: Assessing the Performance of Faculty Hired from Within" (2000). Cornell Law Faculty Publications. 375.
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/375
Publication Citation
Published in: Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 29, no. 1, part 2 (January 2000).