the association of american law schools (aals) dataset: the american legal academy—1922 to 1989:...

The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Dataset: the American Legal Academy

—1922 to 1989:

Peter A. Hook, J.D., M.S.L.I.S.

Electronic Services LibrarianIndiana University School of Law—Bloomington

Doctoral StudentSchool of Library and Information ScienceIndiana University—Bloomingtonhttp://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~pahook

Subject Mappings

November 22, 2010 – Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center Open House

http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~pahook

General Theme

• What is the history of an academic discipline as revealed by a longitudinal analysis as to which professors taught which courses (1922-23 through 1989-90)?

Research Questions (PhD)

Co-Teaching Map

Is co-teaching analysis (the aggregate of the same professor teaching multiple, different courses) a legitimate means to produce a topic map of an academic discipline?

– Hypothesis: Domain maps produced from co-teaching analysis will, on the whole, be regarded as valid by experts in the field.

– Auxiliary Question: What is the best way to validate a domain map?

• Co teaching maps will be preferred by domain experts over similar maps created by random placement of the academic subjects.

Hand Capture / Electronic

• Hand Captured 1922 to 1989.

• Negotiating with the AALS for 1990 to the present data. (They have this electronically).

Available Information• Law Teachers by School

• 1922 to present.

• Universe of U.S. law professors through time.

1922

All Information About One Individual

1931

Bowman Harold M. Boston University 1922

























Available Information Cont.

• Teachers by Subject

• 1931 to present

Available Information Cont.

• Teachers by Subject

• 1931 to present

• Controlled Subjects

• Some Syndetic Structure

• Bins as to Length of teaching

• 59 in 1931 (including one ‘see’ reference)

• 104 in 2009-10

1931

All Information About One Individual

Bowman Harold M. Constitutional Law Over 10 Years

Bowman Harold M. Future Interests Over 10 Years

Bowman Harold M. Jurisprudence One to 5 Years

Bowman Harold M. Legal History One to 5 Years

Bowman Harold M. Personal Property Over 10 Years

Bowman Harold M. Real Property Over 10 Years

1931 1931

1931


























Available Data

Academic Year Citation (See Bibliography)

Directory Year ID

Number of Faculty / Subject

Affiliations

(1) 1931-32 (AALS, 1931) 10 2679

(2) 1941-42 (AALS, 1941) 20 3358

(3) 1949-50 (AALS, 1949) 25 5193

(4) 1961-62 (AALS, 1961) 37 5485

(5) 1972-73 (AALS, 1972) 48 19,199

TOTAL: 35,914

Criminal Procedure

Crim. Law Con’t.

Crim. Pro. Con’t.

Crim. Law Con’t.

Criminal Procedure

Crim. Law Con’t.

Crim. Pro. Con’t.

Crim. Law Con’t.

1964:

• “Criminal Procedure (Includes Juveniles)”

Criminal Procedure

Crim. Law Con’t.

Crim. Pro. Con’t.

Crim. Law Con’t.

1967:

• “Criminal Procedure (Includes Juveniles and Police Administration)”

Criminal Procedure

Crim. Law Con’t.

Crim. Pro. Con’t.

Crim. Law Con’t.

1968:

• “Criminal Procedure (Includes Juveniles)”

Criminal Procedure

Crim. Law Con’t.

Crim. Pro. Con’t.

Crim. Law Con’t.

1969:

• “Criminal Procedure (Includes Juvenile Delinquency and Juveniles)”

1976:

• Criminal Procedure [No Includes]

• New Topic in 1974: Juvenile Law (Includes Juvenile Delinquency (See also Domestic Relations))”

Criminal Procedure

Crim. Law Con’t.

Crim. Pro. Con’t.

Crim. Law Con’t.

1976:

• Criminal Procedure [No Includes]

• New Topic in 1974: Juvenile Law (Includes Juvenile Delinquency (See also Domestic Relations))”

Criminal Procedure

Crim. Law Con’t.

Crim. Pro. Con’t.

Crim. Law Con’t.

1974

Juvenile Law

Juvenile LawJuvenile Law Con’t

Estates Con’t

Trusts Con’t

Estate Planning Con’t

Estates & Trusts

Estates & Trusts (5 Topics Filtered Into 1)

-20 -10 0 10

-20

-10

01

0

mds$points[, 1:2][,1]

md

s$p

oin

ts[,

1:2

][,2

]

Administrative Law

Admiralty

Agency

Air Law

Bankruptcy

Bills and Notes

Business Organization

Code PleadingCommon Law Pleading

Comparative Law

Conflict of Laws

Constitutional Law

Contracts

Corporation Finance

Credit Transactions

Criminal Law Administration

Criminal Law and Procedure

Damages

Domestic Relations

Equity

Equity Pleading & Practice

Evidence

Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure Future InterestsIndustrial Relations

Insurance

International Law

Introduction to Law

Jurisprudence

Labor Law

Legal Bibliography and Research

Legal Ethics

Legal History

Legislation

Mining Law

Mortgages

Municipal Corporations

Office Practice

Oil and Gas

Partnership

Patent Law

Personal Property

Pleading

Practice

Practice Court

Private Corporations

Public Utilities

Quasi-Contract Real Property

Roman Law

SalesSuretyship

Taxation

Torts

Trade Regulation

Trusts

Water Rights

Wills and Administration

Subjects with no co-occurrence are 11 more units distant than subjects with 1 co-occurrence. Distance Range = 1 to 67

1931 Subjects (Controlled)

-20 -10 0 10

-20

-10

01

0

mds$points[, 1:2][,1]

md

s$p

oin

ts[,

1:2

][,2

]

Administrative Law

Admiralty

Agency

Air Law

Bankruptcy

Bills and Notes

Business Organization

Code PleadingCommon Law Pleading

Comparative Law

Conflict of Laws

Constitutional Law

Contracts

Corporation Finance

Credit Transactions

Criminal Law Administration

Criminal Law and Procedure

Damages

Domestic Relations

Equity

Equity Pleading & Practice

Evidence

Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure Future InterestsIndustrial Relations

Insurance

International Law

Introduction to Law

Jurisprudence

Labor Law

Legal Bibliography and Research

Legal Ethics

Legal History

Legislation

Mining Law

Mortgages

Municipal Corporations

Office Practice

Oil and Gas

Partnership

Patent Law

Personal Property

Pleading

Practice

Practice Court

Private Corporations

Public Utilities

Quasi-Contract Real Property

Roman Law

SalesSuretyship

Taxation

Torts

Trade Regulation

Trusts

Water Rights

Wills and Administration

Subjects with no co-occurrence are 11 more units distant than subjects with 1 co-occurrence. Distance Range = 1 to 67

1931 Subjects (Controlled) – MDS Layout

The End


Comparison to other ‘Structures’2. How do topic maps (domain maps) produced by co-teaching differ

from topic maps (domain maps) produced by other datasets (overlapping list of cases/topics in casebooks; West Topic and Key Number system co-occurrence in caselaw, etc.).

3. How does the evolution of the subjects on the lists of “teachers by subject” contained in the AALS directories differ with those of the Topic and Key Number System (West Publishing) and the controlled thesaurus for the Index to Legal Periodicals? What is the degree of overlap? Which entity led? Did changes in the AALS directories presage the other taxonomies or vice versa?


Map Evolution & Trend Identification4. How has the canon of subjects listed in the AALS (American

Association of Law Schools) questionnaire changed over time? How quick is it to incorporate new subjects and has this changed over time?

5. Do certain schools or geographic regions lead in the innovation of new subjects?

6. What subjects are most frequently co-taught?

7. Are certain types of professors (minority, part-time, new, or established), more apt to teach a specific course? Has this changed over time?

2007-08 Syndetic Structure (Waiting to be enhanced by co-occurrence data for the rigorous distribution of topics for which there are no syndetic relationships.)

= AALS Controlled Subject

= topic listed in the ‘includes’ information.

LEGEND

Real Property

Equity

Crim. Law & Proc.

Contracts

Torts

Bills & Notes

Private Corps.

Const. Law

Trusts

Evidence Conflict of Laws

Practice Sales

Personal Property

Public Utilities

Agency

Dom. Relations

Wills & Admin.

Partner-ship

Comm. Law Pleading

Insurance

Mortgages

Suretyship

Munic. Corps.

Bankruptcy

Code Pleading

Future Interests

Leg. Bib. & Res.

Damages

Quasi-Contract

Admin. Law

Taxation

Int’l Law

Legal Ethics

Fed. Jur. & Proc.

Practice Court

Admiralty

Property

Const. Law

Legal Res. & Writing

Clinical Teaching

Civil Pro.

Contracts

Torts

Bus. Assoc.

Prof. Resp.

Crim. Law

Int’l Law

Crim. Pro.

Evidence Trial Advoc.

Juris-prudence

Fed. Courts

Int’l Bus. Trans.

Commercial Law

Comparative Law

Family Law

Tax., Federal

ADR

Admin. Law

Estates & Trusts

Intel. Prop.

Civil Rights

Environ. Law

Legal Hist.

Crim. Justice

Employ. Discrim.

Conflict of Laws

Remedies

Sec. Reg.

Labor Law

Legis-lation.

Corp. Finance

Antitrust

Bus. Assoc.

Estates & Trusts

Civ. Pro.

Property

Commercial Law

Equity

Crim. Law

Crim. Pro.

Const. Law

Evidence

Conflict of Laws

Remedies

Contracts Torts Payment Systems

Reg. Industries

Family Law

Creds.’ & Debtors’ Rights

Insurance Law

Legal Res. & Writing

Admin. Law

Tax. Federal

Real Estate Trans.

Local Govn’t

Tax, State & Local

Fed. Courts

App. Practice

Trial Ad.

Int’l Law

Admiralty

Legis.

•Agency

•Bus. Organization

•Partnership

•Private Corp.

•Future Interests

•Trusts

•Wills & Admin.

•Code Pleading

•Common Law Pleading

•Pleading

•Practice

•Real Prop.

•Personal Prop.

•Sales

•Suretyship

•Equity

•Equity Plead. & Practice

• Damages

• Quasi-Contract

(Bills & Notes)

• Bankruptcy

• Credit Transactions

•Comp. Law

•Roman Law

Comparative Area Studies

Bus. Assoc. Bus.

Assoc.

1931 (Adjusted) 2007-08 1931 (Adjusted) 2007-08

Const. Law

Const. Law