Journal of Legal Metrics volume one, number one 2012 Journal of Legal Metrics Editors-in-Chief Adam Aft, Alex B. Mitchell & Craig D. Rust Senior Editors Joshua Cumby, Tom Cummins, Thomas R. DeCesar & Rosanne Rust Editors Gordon Breuer, Brendan Coffman, Justin Du Mouchel, Daniel Friedheim, Benjamin A. Gianforti, Lauren Girardot, Jeremy Greenberg, Tashina Harris, Emily Christine Kendall, Daniel Klionsky, Megan Marinos, Brian Rock, Daniel Rodriguez, Sarah Nash, John Sandell, Sarah Snider & Matthew Weinstein _________________________________________________________________ About the cover Law School Dean Demographics By Ross E. Davies and Alex B. Mitchell. Source: The Association of American Law Schools 2010-2011 Directory of Law Teachers 3-256, 1875-87, 1889-92 (2010) (sections titled “Law Teachers by School at Member Schools,” “List II – Minority Law Teachers,” and “List III – Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Community Law Teachers”). According to the AALS Directory, 42 of the 171 listed law schools are led by female deans, one school is led by a member of a minority, and two schools are led by members of the gay/lesbian/ bisexual/transsexual community. In our experience, the AALS Directory is based at least in large part on self-reported and home-institution-reported data. _________________________________________________________________ The Journal of Legal Metrics operates on the same terms as the Journal of Law. Please write to us at
[email protected]. Copyright © 2012 by The Green Bag, Inc., ex- cept where otherwise indicated and for U.S. governmental works. ISSN 2157-9067 (print) and 2157-9075 (online). CONTENTS __________________________________________________________________________ Volume 1 • Number 1 • 2012 __________________________________________________________________________ An Introduction to the Journal of Legal Metrics by Adam Aft, Alex B.