Inbreeding in Law School Hiring: Assessing the Performance of Faculty Hired from within

This study compares the scholarly impact of inbred entry‐level law school faculty members with the scholarly impact of noninbred entry‐level law school faculty members. The sample includes 32 law schools and approximately 700 entry‐level faculty members. By our measure of performance, scholarly impact as measured by citation frequency, inbred entry‐level law school faculty members do not perform as well as noninbred entry‐level faculty members.