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Inbreeding in Law School Hiring: Assessing the Performance of Faculty Hired from within

Author(s) -

Theodore Eisenberg,

Martin T. Wells

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

the journal of legal studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.251

H-Index - 61

eISSN - 1537-5366

pISSN - 0047-2530

DOI - 10.1086/468077

Subject(s) - entry level , sample (material) , law , political science , psychology , medical education , medicine , physics , thermodynamics

This study compares the scholarly impact of inbred entry‐level law school faculty members with the scholarly impact of noninbred entry‐level law school faculty members. The sample includes 32 law schools and approximately 700 entry‐level faculty members. By our measure of performance, scholarly impact as measured by citation frequency, inbred entry‐level law school faculty members do not perform as well as noninbred entry‐level faculty members.

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