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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious…how does one become a law professor…is there such a thing as a law PhD? Almost sounds like the route for DD.

Just wondering if that route is fully covered.  As an example, you of course have to pay yourself for an MBA, but a finance PhD is 100% free and actually you can earn decent money getting research sponsored.

Wondering if law is at all the same.[/quote]
To be a professor, you attend Yale for your law degree.  Many also get a PhD in another subject.[/quote]

This is actually true.  :)[/quote]

It’s practically true. Other than Yale, there are law professors who went to Harvard or NYU, and a handful from schools like Vanderbilt or Texas, but yes, attending a top 14 school is a requirement. (Which, by the way is how we know (despite what they claim) Harvard hired Elizabeth Warren because they thought she was Native American. She went to Rutgers.) According to the article below, there are 66 law professors in the U.S. that didn’t pass through a t-14 law school for their JD or advanced degree & all but 2 had an advanced degree. Most of the non-t-14 advanced degrees are from places like Oxford or degrees tied to their specialty.

https://nationaljurist.com/national-jurist-magazine/where-law-professors-went-law-school/

It says almost a third of law professors in the country either attended Yale or Harvard. Adding New York University accounts for 42% of legal academics who graduated between 2011 and 2020.

Spivey Consulting broke the numbers down even further.  On its blog post on this topic, it says NYU outperformed its ranking. The top six law schools plus NYU grads placed more than half of the nation’s law professors (58%).

The majority of professors attended law school at a top 14 school (77%) and another five law schools placed five or more graduates: Hebrew University (13), Texas (9), Vanderbilt (9), UCLA (8), and Iowa (5). Collectively, these 19 law schools are on the resumes of 80% of law professors.

When it comes to the degrees obtained, more than 500 professors, or 58%, had other graduate degrees to go along with their law degree. PhDs (226) LLM (70) JSD/SJDs (40) and a dozen BPhils or DPhils from Oxford. Just over a hundred (105) graduates from this list went to teach at a T14 law school.

Of those 138 with non-T14 JDs, 73 had an LLM or JSD/SJD from a T14, leaving 66 (about 8%) who never passed through a T14 law school during their legal education. All but 2 of the 138 had some additional graduate degree.[/quote]

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