Conservative v liberal law schools using clerkship data Forum
- cotiger
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Conservative v liberal law schools using clerkship data
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the ... ools/#ss-3
They use basically the same methodology as DW-Nominate to score the political persuasions of supreme court justices and then see where the clerks from each school go.
Predictably, Berkeley and NYU are the most liberal; UVA the most conservative.
They use basically the same methodology as DW-Nominate to score the political persuasions of supreme court justices and then see where the clerks from each school go.
Predictably, Berkeley and NYU are the most liberal; UVA the most conservative.
- Vincent
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Re: Conservative v liberal law schools using clerkship data
This is really really cool.
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Re: Conservative v liberal law schools using clerkship data
Greatcotiger wrote:http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the ... ools/#ss-3
They use basically the same methodology as DW-Nominate to score the political persuasions of supreme court justices and then see where the clerks from each school go.
Predictably, Berkeley and NYU are the most liberal; UVA the most conservative.
- starry eyed
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Re: Conservative v liberal law schools using clerkship data
This will hold soo much weight in my decision....
- nothingtosee
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Re: Conservative v liberal law schools using clerkship data
So do H and Y have bimodal curves because they send so many clerks out total, whereas only the conservatives look at Penn/UVA grads? Other interpretations?
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- jbagelboy
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Re: Conservative v liberal law schools using clerkship data
this is basically what I would have expected, with my only surprise being stanford.
- sundance95
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Re: Conservative v liberal law schools using clerkship data
Right, this. This data tells us much more about which schools the respective wings of the court will consider hiring from than the politics of the schools themselves.nothingtosee wrote:So do H and Y have bimodal curves because they send so many clerks out total, whereas only the conservatives look at Penn/UVA grads? Other interpretations?
- Carter1901
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Re: Conservative v liberal law schools using clerkship data
Egregious Duke/Cornell trolling.
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Re: Conservative v liberal law schools using clerkship data
Carter1901 wrote:Egregious Duke/Cornell trolling.
This is cool data. Thanks for the post, OP.
- Tanicius
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Re: Conservative v liberal law schools using clerkship data
Rehnquist must just have been a self-loving sucker for his alam mater.jbagelboy wrote:this is basically what I would have expected, with my only surprise being stanford.
- BVest
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Re: Conservative v liberal law schools using clerkship data
More like UT/Georgetown trolling, unless Duke and Cornell can lay claim to a significant number of the clerks with no law schools listed on this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_la ... ted_StatesCarter1901 wrote:Egregious Duke/Cornell trolling.
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Re: Conservative v liberal law schools using clerkship data
Stanford Law has a fairly large conglomerate of alumni in Texas so it's actually not too surprising to me that a high number of their graduates are conservatives. Not that every lawyer in Texas that went to Stanford is conservative but one would think that the majority arejbagelboy wrote:this is basically what I would have expected, with my only surprise being stanford.
Plus Boalt likely takes most of the hard-leaning lefties
- BearState
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Re: Conservative v liberal law schools using clerkship data
SLS is super liberal; I'd guess ACS/allied groups outnumbers Fed Soc significantly. I think sample size is too small (and SLS too small/too young) to really say this reflects how liberal/conservative the school is.
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