Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2010
Status
Accepted
Abstract
Law students and the consumers of legal services like to think that professors are hired by law schools on the basis of pure intellectual ability and achievement. No doubt, individual intellectual ability and achievement play significant roles in law school faculty hiring. However, another important dynamic is overlooked, wealth.
SSRN Link
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1412783
Recommended Citation
Daniel Gordon, Hiring Law Professors: Breaking the Back of an American Plutocratic Oligarchy, 19 Widener L.J. 137 (2009).