Law Profs Lean Left

Paul Caron has the breakdown:

FundRace 2008 on The Huffington Post lists 635 "law professors" as having made contributions to candidates in the 2008 Presidential election totalling $623,472. Of this amount, 92.7% ($577,924) has been contributed to Democratic candidates, 7.3% ($45,548) to Republican candidates. $487,772 has been contributed to the nominees of each party -- 94.7% ($461,754) to Barack Obama, 5.3% ($26,018) to John McCain. The breakdown in political contributions by professors at various law schools includes:

• Harvard: 100% ($23,632) to Democrats, 0% to Republicans
• Chicago: 100% ($14,158) to Democrats, 0% to Republicans
• Michigan: 100% ($11,653) to Democrats, 0% to Republicans
• Stanford: 100% ($8,900) to Democrats, 0% to Republicans
• Texas: 100% ($6,107) to Democrats, 0% to Republicans
• UC-Berkeley: 100% ($4,850) to Democrats, 0% to Republicans
• Pennsylvania: 100% ($2,711) to Democrats, 0% to Republicans
• Duke: 93.8% ($15,188) to Democrats, 6.2% ($1,000) to Republicans
• Columbia: 92.7% ($6,390) to Democrats, 7.3% ($500) to Republicans
• Georgetown: 91.9% ($25,990) to Democrats, 8.1% ($2,300) to Republicans
• NYU: 91.7% ($5,500) to Democrats, 8.3% ($500) to Republicans
• Cornell: 91.5% ($3,250) to Democrats, 8.5% ($300) to Republicans
• Yale: 91.2% ($3,630) to Democrats, 8.8% ($350) to Republicans
• Virginia: 77.8% ($15,097) to Democrats, 22.2% ($4,300) to Republicans
• UCLA: 73.2% ($2,050) to Democrats, 26.8% ($750) to Republicans
• Vanderbilt: 56.9% ($1,318) to Democrats, 43.1% ($1,000) to Republicans
• Northwestern: 35.3% ($5,050) to Democrats, 64.7% ($9,275) to Republicans

Brian Lieter adds:

Even the Northwestern result is mainly an artifact of maximum donations by just two faculty, both well-known and hardcore conservative activists: Steven Calabresi and John McGinnis.