Wednesday, October 16, 2024
JD/PhDs by PhD field
Andrew Granato, a JD/PhD student at Yale, has compiled data from PrawfsBlog about all PhDs hired in law schools over the last 15 years, more or less. This includes folks hired into non-US law schools. Here's the breakdown by PhD discipline:
Political Science (71)
Economics (65)
History (59)
Philosophy (48)
Sociology (32)
STEM fields (19)
Literature (18)
Psychology (14)
Anthropology (12)
Among the 48 philosophy PhDs (one person on Granato's list did not take a job in a law school), I was happy to see six students I worked with.
(Mr. Granato also has a category for "Law/Jurisprudence" PhDs, which seems to include a fair number of Berkeley JSP folks, which would bolster the social science numbers, above.)
https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2024/10/jd-phds-by-field.html