Daniel Gordon (St. Thomas University School of Law) has published Hiring Law Professors: Breaking the Back of an American Plutocratic Oligarchy, 19 Widener L. Rev. 137 (2010). Here is the abstract:
Law students and the consumers of legal services like to think that professors are hired by law schools on the basis of pure intellectual ability and achievement. No doubt, individual intellectual ability and achievement play significant roles in law school faculty hiring. However, another important dynamic is overlooked, wealth.
