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liberalism and law school faculties
An interesting study. Law faculties are the most liberal/left of all 60+ categories of attorneys, more so than other fields where you might expect the practitioners to be liberal -- civil rights lawyers, criminal defense lawyers, government lawyers.
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A and B are not mutually exclusive. I'll go with AB myself.
Law school is not the only one obviously but it is funny how the schools in general have gotten more liberal. When I went to college in the early 70's I went to an engineering school and the faculty in the sciences and engineering were very conservative. Now they are not flaming liberals but fairly liberal, I work at an engineering/tech school. I think some of it may be due to the fact that most if not all of the faculty in engineering and much of the sciences worked in industry or government, say on the space program or materials science.
Now many/most have just be in education. They are judged on research grants but they do not have the actual experience of working at a company. I see it in the Computer Science department where the tenured faculty is much more liberal than the adjuncts and lecturers who all came out of industry or are still in it.
Well that's because either A: Liberal lawyers can not get into the mainstream of the regular law firm and jobs. Or B: Only liberals are drawn to teach, because they know it is the only place that thoughts like they have are accepted. Just my 2 cents worth.