This
panel will explore the reasons why there are so few conservative and
libertarian law professors and how this situation harms law teaching and
scholarship. Panelists will discuss studies finding that political
prejudice is potentially stronger than racial prejudice and perceptions on
both the left and the right that academia is welcoming to those on the left and
unfriendly to those on the right; the effects on law students when they learn
only one side of the debate over major issues and later confront an
ideologically diverse judiciary; and the echo-chamber effect on legal scholars
when collegial discourse is one-sided and how this has caused legal scholarship
to miss some important judicial decisions.