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2008 Entry Level Hiring Report: Data Collection

By Lawrence Solum

Once again, I will be collecting data on entry level hiring.  Please submit data in the following format. 

Please email reports to me using this email address: lsolum@gmail.com using "2008 Entry Level Hiring Report" in the subject line.

I will be maintaining the date in an excel spreadhseet and publishing it on the blog.  To help me important the data without manual reentry, it would be very helpful if you would follow this format exactly.  If you separate each data element by semicolons, I can more easily import the data into Excel.

Hiringinstitution; Firstname; Lastname; Firstlawdegreeabrreviation; Firstlawdegreeyear; Firstlawdegreeinstitution; Advanceddegree1abbreviation; Advanceddegree1year; Advanceddegree1field; Advanceddegree1institution; Advancededgree2abbreviation; Advanceddegree2year; Advanceddegree2field; Advanceddegree2institution; Postdoc1type; Postdoc1institution; Postdoc2type; Postdoc2institution

For example:

University of Illinois; Jane; Doe; JD; 2006; Yale; PhD; 2005; History; Harvard; Visiting Assistant Professor; Chicago-Kent

or

University of Chicago; John; Doe; LLB; 2004; Oxford; SJD; 2008 (expected); Law; Harvard; MA; 2005; Political Science; Cambridge; Research Fellow; New York University

Some comments about a few of the data elements:

Firstname--Use two names if that is appropriate, e.g. "Mary Ann" or "Billy Bob."

Lastname--Again use two names if appropriate, i.e., for names in the traditional spanish language format, e.g., Garcia Lopez.

Firstlawdegreeabbreviation--Use JD and not J.D.  Use LLB and not LL.B.  For non-U.S. degrees, please report the actual degree and DO NOT report JD if the degree is (or may be) a JD equivalent.

Firstlawdegreeinstitution--Use "University of Chicago" rather than Chicago.

Advanceddegree1field--Use the most generic & commonly-used descriptor, e.g. use "political science" rather than "politics," "government," or "political theory."  This is important, because I will be counting advanced degrees by discipline.

Postdoc1type--Use "Visiting Assistant Professor," "Research Fellow," "Teaching Fellow," or similar terms.

If there are more than two advanced degrees, list the highest two degrees, e.g. list the SJD and the PhD only, not the LLM, SJD, MA, and PhD.

If there are more than two post-docs, list the third (and subsequent) postdoc using the same format.

I will accept "No Entry Level Hiring" reports, such as:

Yale Law School; No Entry Level Hiring

I'm sure I'll have additional clarifications.

Thanks to everyone!

I will report the first results in about one week.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on February 11, 2008 (boomark / email).