Last night I attended a talk by Northwestern Law School professor John McGinnis detailing, based on political contribution data, the overwhelming Democrat-leaning orientation of law professors. The talk was cosponsored by the Federalist Society and the National Association of Scholars, and had an attendance of about fifty, which included a substantial percentage of the law professors who are active in the Federalist Society and otherwise consider themselves active conservatives or libertarians, and probably included a majority of such folks who were attending the main AALS conference two blocks away, where thousands of overwhelmingly liberal and leftist law professors gathered. I therefore chuckled when I read this post by Kevin Drum implying that law professors lean conservative. Perhaps Kevin has been deceived by the wackily disproportionate percentage of conservative and libertarian law professor bloggers?
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