This year’s survey is now open! Respond for your law review or journal today.
Join law reviews and journals nationwide in completing the brief survey found here. Now in its third year, this survey aims to follow patterns of gender and minority diversity among law review membership and leadership at ABA-accredited law schools nationwide.
In 2011 and 2012, the New York Law School Law Review published its law review diversity reports examining female and minority student representation among law review membership and leadership nationwide. The reports are based on research conducted in collaboration with Ms. JD and include results based on surveys of the flagship, general interest law review or journal at ABA-approved law schools.
2011-2012 Law Review Diversity Report
By the New York Law School Law Review
The 2011-2012 Law Review Diversity Report analyzed results from a survey of law reviews at all ABA-approved law schools—including results from law reviews at schools ranked in the Top 50 by U.S. News & World Report (the “Top 50 Sample”); ranked outside of the Top 50 (the “NYLS Sample”); and in a “Combined Sample” of all responding law reviews. The results showed, among other things, a relationship between faculty divesity and law review diversity.
- For the full report, click here.
2010-2011 Law Review Diversity Report
By the New York Law School Law Review
In 2011, NYLS’s 2010-2011 Law Review Diversity Report expanded upon Ms. JD’s 2010 report on law reviews in the Top 50 by reporting the results of an NYLS survey of two limited samples of law reviews outside of the Top 50, based on criteria other than the U.S. News rankings: the percentage of women and minorities who are members of a law school’s full-time faculty.
- Read the full report here.
Reports by Ms. JD
Ms. JD published its Women on Law Review: Gender Diversity Reports in August 2010 and October 2012, examining female membership and leadership on the law reviews at law schools ranked in the Top 50 by U.S. News & World Report only. Ms. JD found that, although the percentage of female students on those law reviews (44.3%) and in leadership positions (46.2%) was in line with the percentage of women awarded law degrees during the same time period (45.7% in 2008), the representation of women in the editor-in-chief (“EIC”) position was “disproportionately low” at just 33%.
To make sure your law review or journal receives the 2012-2013 survey or for more information about how your law review can get involved, email survey@nylslawreview.com.
