The Teaching/Research Trade-Off in Law Data From the Right Tail

• Published in: Evaluation review Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 46 - 81
• Main Authors: Ginsburg, Tom, Miles, Thomas J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.02.2015; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Education; Educational innovations; Educational planning; Educational provision; Educational Quality; Humans; Individual Characteristics; Interprofessional Relations; Jurisprudence; Law; Methodology; Productivity; Professional Competence; Project evaluation; Research - legislation & jurisprudence; Scholarly publishing; Statistics as Topic; Student attitudes; Student Evaluation; Teacher Effectiveness; Teaching; Teaching - legislation & jurisprudence; Teaching Load; Teaching methods; Trade-off; United States; Universities - organization & administration; methodology; education; economic evaluation

Background: There is a long scholarly debate on the trade-off between research and teaching in various fields, but relatively little study of the phenomenon in law. This analysis examines the relationship between the two core academic activities at one particular school, the University of Chicago La...