An interesting new study by Adam Bonica, Adam S. Chilton, and Maya Sen links lawyers' demographic variables (including law schools and law firms) to political ideologies using campaign contribution data. Here are the top-ten most liberal and conservative law school graduates according to the study.
A couple of these look a bit surprising and may be the result of small sample sizes, but on the whole it looks like I might have expected.
Top ten most liberal law school graduates:
| 1 | Charlotte School of Law | -1.324 |
| 2 | Northern Illinois University | -1.261 |
| 3 | Howard University | -1.17 |
| 4 | University of California, Berkeley | -1.155 |
| 5 | University of California, Hastings | -1.125 |
| 6 | Northeastern University | -1.072 |
| 7 | Lewis & Clark Law School | -1.048 |
| 8 | University of Oregon | -1.047 |
| 9 | University of Maine | -1.013 |
| 10 | University of Washington | -1.005 |
Top ten most conservative law school graduates:
| 1 | Brigham Young University | 0.828 |
| 2 | Ave Maria University | 0.555 |
| 3 | University of Wyoming | 0.426 |
| 4 | University of Mississippi | 0.406 |
| 5 | Cumberland University | 0.382 |
| 6 | University of Charleston | 0.333 |
| 7 | Louisiana State University | 0.278 |
| 8 | Regent University | 0.264 |
| 9 | Texas Tech University | 0.236 |
| 10 | University of North Dakota | 0.229 |
Predictable; not unlike the Legacy News Media -- those on the "Far Right" are still only about half as far right-of-center as the folks on the other ideological side are from the opposite pole.
Posted by: John M. Keynes | 11/17/2015 at 08:25 PM
No George Mason? Should be right under BYU.
Posted by: Ben J. | 02/04/2016 at 04:25 PM