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Report: When It Comes to Election Contributions, Law Profs Go Dem

By Dan Slater

It’s dogma that, when it comes to ivory tower politics, law schools tend to lean left.

How left? Well, the Tax Prof Blog’s Paul Caron broke down some election contribution numbers reported on the Huffington Post, and here’s what he found out: Based on the HuffPo stats, 635 law profs contributed to candidates in the 2008 Presidential election for a grand total of $623,472. Of that number, $487,772 has been contributed to the nominees of each party — 94.7% ($461,754) to Barack Obama, 5.3% ($26,018) to John McCain.

Here’s how some individual schools come out:

Harvard: 100% ($23,632) to Democrats, 0% to Republicans
Chicago: 100% ($14,158) to Democrats, 0% to Republicans
Michigan: 100% ($11,653) to Democrats, 0% to Republicans
Stanford: 100% ($8,900) to Democrats, 0% to Republicans
Texas: 100% ($6,107) to Republicans, 0% to Republicans
UC-Berkeley: 100% ($4,850) to Democrats, 0% to Republicans
Pennsylvania: 100% ($2,711) to Democrats, 0% to Republicans
Duke: 93.8% ($15,188) to Democrats, 6.2% ($1,000) to Republicans
Columbia: 92.7% ($6,390) to Democrats, 7.3% ($500) to Republicans
Georgetown: 91.9% ($25,990) to Democrats, 8.1% ($2,300) to Republicans
NYU: 91.7% ($5,500) to Democrats, 8.3% ($500) to Republicans
Cornell: 91.5% ($3,250) to Democrats, 8.5% ($300) to Republicans
Yale: 91.2% ($3,630) to Democrats, 8.8% ($350) to Republicans
Virginia: 77.8% ($15,097) to Democrats, 22.2% ($4,300) to Republicans
UCLA: 73.2% ($2,050) to Democrats, 26.8% ($750) to Republicans
Vanderbilt: 56.9% ($1,318) to Democrats, 43.1% ($1,000) to Republicans
Northwestern: 35.3% ($5,050) to Democrats, 64.7% ($9,275) to Republicans

Full post as published by Law Blog - WSJ.com on September 10, 2008 (boomark / email).