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Law And Economics As A Pillar Of Legal Education, W. Kip Viscusi, Joni Hersch
Law And Economics As A Pillar Of Legal Education, W. Kip Viscusi, Joni Hersch
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This paper reports the distribution of doctoral degrees in economics and in other fields among faculy at the 26 hghest-ranked law schools. Almost one-third of professors at the top 13 law schools have a Ph.D. degree, with 9 % having a Ph.D. in economics. Law school rank is hghly correlated with the share of faculy holding a Ph.D. in economics and is less correlated with the share offaculy with other doctoral degrees. Law and economics is a major area of legal scholarsh based on citations in the law literature and other impact rankings. In recognition of the increased importance of …