Recent empirical data show that minorities, as well as women, are entering the legal academy in record numbers. Data generated by the American Bar Association indicates that the percentage of minorities employed as full-time law teachers, “has risen from 6.2 percent in 1985 to 11.8 percent in 1993.” Data culled from the AALS database on full-time faculty listed in the Directory of Law Teachers confirm this finding, demonstrating that, “the percentage of full-time minority faculty has increased from 10.0 to 12.2 …showed first 75 words of 9905 total…

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