With most law schools having already started classes or starting this week, I thought it would be interesting to share some demographic information from the entering law school class of 2009 at Cincinnati. I taught a section of 36 incoming 1Ls in our week-long Introduction to Law course last week, and asked them a series of anonymous demographic questions via eInstruction handhelds. Here are some of the interesting results:
What is your political party affiliation?
- 36% Democrat
- 33% Republican
- 22% Independent
- 8% Other
Whom did you support in the 2004 Presidential election?
- 58% John Kerry
- 36% George Bush
- 3% Ralph Nader
- 3% Other
The current U.S. Supreme Court is:
- 3% Too Liberal
- 49% Too Conservative
- 49% Just Right
How would you describe your judicial philosophy?
- 9% Very Liberal
- 23% Somewhat Liberal
- 49% Moderate
- 14% Somewhat Conservative
- 6% Very Conservative
Although still generally "blue," this snippet of the Class of 2009 is much "redder" than the Class of 2008.
