This study closely examines law school faculty satisfaction with an array of qualities and initiatives of law school management in the USA.
The study enables its end users to pinpoint satisfaction, or lack of it, with many facets of law school governance and management. Unique data sets are presented for satisfaction with each of the following: distribution of the teaching load, sexual harassment policies, marketing the law school, fundraising for the law school, overall law education quality, anti-discrimination in hiring, tenure and promotion, use of artificial intelligence, quality of library services, openness to presenting a broad range of political and legal opinions and more.
Just a few of this 55-page report’s many findings are that:
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16.34% of law school faculty are dissatisfied with law school anti-discrimination efforts in promotion, tenure and hiring,
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40.91% of faculty at top 20 law schools were satisfied with their law school’s fundraising efforts.
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58% of female faculty were satisfied with law school policies on the distribution of the teaching load.
The survey was conducted from April 10 to June 7, 2023. Data and commentary in the report is sourced from a survey of 104 law school faculty drawn from 56 law schools. Data in the report is broken out by personal variables such as work title, gender and age, as well as institutional variables such as law school size, public or private status and approximate ranking.