Posted by Orin Kerr:
More on Gender and the Harvard Law Review:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2005_05_15-2005_05_21.shtml#1116522073
Over at [1]The Conglomerate, Christine Hurt is looking into why recent
Volumes of the Harvard Law Review have mostly published the works of
male authors. One obvious trend in the HLR's publication track,
Christine notes, is the very strong preference for articles in
constitutional law:
Given the roughly equal numbers of female to male assistant
professors, I would suspect that law reviews receive an equal
number of papers authored by men and women. So, does a ConLaw bias
have gender effects? Or a bias toward well-known, established
authors? These numbers roughly correlate with the percentage of
female full professors.
That raises an interesting question -- do law reviews receive a
roughly equal number of papers authored by men and women? Christine
assumes so, but I am less sure. I remember my reaction when I first
saw Brian Leiter's 2002 list of [2]the most-cited law professors who
entered teaching since 1992: every one of the top 20 most cited
professors in that list is male. There are a number of possible
explanations for that very surprising (at least to me) result, but one
might be a difference between the sheer number of submissions from men
and women, either generally or in the smaller category of more
prolific academics.
References
1. http://www.theconglomerate.org/2005/05/more_on_gender_.html
2. http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/bleiter/rankings02/50_most_cited.html
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