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Monday, May 21, 2018

Entry Level Hiring 2018 - PhDs and Clinical Hires

In the comments below, Orin Kerr raises two interesting questions. First, "One interesting question to see would be percent of hires over time that have a doctorate degree. "

Here, I've broken out the degrees by law doctorates (not counting JDs, of course) and other doctorates. In recent years the Yale PhD has come on the scene, thus increasing the law doctorates. (Click for larger image.)

There are indeed a higher percentage of PhDs, both law and otherwise, over the last two years. It will be interesting over the next few years to see whether this is a trend.

Percent PhDs.20180521

Orin also asks: "Am I right that these numbers are for all tenure-track hiring, whether for clinical positions or for non-clinical positions? I ask that because I have a vague impression of a trend toward making entry-level clinical positions tenure-track instead of non-tenure track. If that trend is happening -- a big if, of course --I wonder how that may be changing the tenure-track numbers you find." Below I've broken out the clinical tenure track hires over the years. There doesn't seem to me to be a notable change in this percentage in the last few years.

Clinical Percent.20180521

Posted by Sarah Lawsky on May 21, 2018 at 10:48 PM in Entry Level Hiring Report | Permalink

Comments

Completely agree with the above comments. Thanks for doing this!

Posted by: Jessica Erickson | May 23, 2018 5:42:31 AM

It is a real service to the profession that you put the time in and do all this analysis. Thank you Sarah!

Posted by: Joey Fishkin | May 22, 2018 10:42:46 PM

Thanks, Sarah! Really interesting.

Posted by: Orin Kerr | May 22, 2018 12:20:40 AM

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