(Insert lawyer joke here)

I don't know if I've mentioned this, but I will be an attorney someday. So lately I've been reading articles on a bunch of law sites, doing research and starting to aclimate myself to the situation as early as possible. I stumbled across an article on law.com about how 99% of Law school professors are liberals, and why someone thinks that is bad, and I'd like to provide my own insight.

Article here

The article is moderately long, so I'll keep my response short. Basically, the author says that having so many liberal law school professors is a bad thing, since they are only passing on one point of view: a liberal one. Conservative professors are highly outnumbered, and this is a bad thing since only one set of views is being presented.

Let's take a look at the definitions of liberal and conservative, shall we?

Liberal:

1. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry.
2. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.

Conservative:

1. Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.
2. Traditional or restrained in style: a conservative dark suit.

So the author believes that there should be less professors who are open to new ideas or tolerant of other's ideas, and more who oppose change and are restrained in style. The problem is, the law is a living thing; it is constanly changing, evolving, and being re-interpreted by various courts. Also, one of the best attributes for an attorney is the ability to interpret and adapt laws from one area and stretch them into whatever new case they are working on. These 2 abilities naturally lend themselves to a liberal point of view, since liberals have no qualms with looking at a set of facts and changing their view. A conservative, by definition, would be opposed to such change and wouldn't adapt themselves to the ever-changing law environment. So hiring more conservative minded professors wouldn't give students more points of view, it would give them less, and theoretically worsen their preperation for the future.