Friday, December 19, 2014

Matt Leichter has published the 2014 edition of Which Law Schools Are Shedding Full-Time Faculty? The nation's law schools have shed 986 full-time faculty (11%) since 2010, and 719 full-time faculty (8%) since 2013.

134 law schools have shed full-time faculty since 2010, with 10 law schools shedding 20 or more full-time faculty:

Full-Time Faculty (Fall) Rank School ’10 ’13 ’14 '13 v '14 '10 v '14 1. WMU Cooley 101 115 49 -66 -52 2. G. Washington 106 93 72 -21 -34 3. Florida Coastal 69 51 36 -15 -33 4. Vermont 55 33 26 -7 -29 5. McGeorge 63 43 36 -7 -27 6. Texas 103 80 80 0 -23 7. Seton Hall 59 47 38 -9 -21 8. Hamline 34 24 14 -10 -20 8. Albany 46 36 26 -10 -20 8. Villanova 49 38 29 -9 -20

45 law schools have added full-time faculty since 2010, with 11 law schools adding 10 or more full-time faculty:

Full-Time Faculty (Fall) Rank School ’10 ’13 ’14 '13 v '14 '10 v '14 1. Columbia 107 154 167 13 60 2. UC-Irvine 0 27 32 5 32 3. Charlotte 35 66 64 -2 29 4. Stanford 68 81 90 9 22 5. UMass 0 15 17 2 17 6. Belmont 0 17 14 -3 14 7. UCLA 86 99 98 -1 12 8. Denver 62 84 73 -11 11 9. Ohio State 42 53 52 -1 10 9. N. Carolina 42 51 52 1 10 9. Wm & Mary 39 53 49 -4 10

Update: Chapman has subsequently filed a corrected Form 509 with the ABA, so I have updated this post to remove references to data in Chapman's original Form 509 filed with the ABA. Matt Leichter has also updated his post with the corrected Chapman data.

https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2014/12/law-schools-have-shed-.html