If the Law Is an Ass, the Law Professor Is a Donkey

By ADAM LIPTAK

Published: August 28, 2005

PROFESSORS at the best law schools are generally assumed to be overwhelmingly liberal, and now a new study lends proof. But whether the ideological imbalance matters - to the academic environment students encounter, to the kinds of lawyers the schools produce and to the stock of ideas the professors generate - depends on whom you ask.