Interesting article by Peter H. Schuck (Yale) in this month’s American Lawyer:  Leftward Leaning; Two Recent Studies Reveal What the Insiders Have Known All Along: Professors at Top U.S. Law Schools are Predominantly Liberal:

Elite law schools cherish robust debate, iconoclasm, and arguing issues from all sides, right? Wrong. The dirty little (not-so) secret about these faculties-that they care much more about diversifying their skin colors, genders, and surnames than about diversifying their points of view-has finally come to the attention of the general public.

Now that the truth is out, law school faculties are likely to come under increased pressure to surrender some of their hiring autonomy. But this pressure would be misguided. If these faculties know what is good for them, they will acknowledge the dearth of dissenting voices within them-and work earnestly to correct the problem from within.

Blogosphere Discussion:

• Stephen Bainbridge, Law School Faculty Intellectual Diversity
• Rick Garnett, Schuck on Intellectual Diversity in Law Schools
• Rick Garnett, More on Diversity in Law Schools
• Henry Manne, Could We Get (and Do We Even Want) Intellectual Diversity Within Law Schools?
• Irina Mante, Political Bias in Law Schools? I Don’t Believe It!
• Juan Non-Volokh, Schuck on Viewpoint Diversity
• Glenn Reynolds, Law Schools Have a Diversity Problem
• David Schraub, Diversity v. Specialization
• Todd Zywicki, Henry Manne in the Blogosphere