relative ranking of a candidate's law school will be the single most important factor in predicting [academic] law job market success, beyond more direct measures of potential such as publications and teaching." 1 Do you want to teach at a Top Ten-ranked law school? If so, you had better excel at something you will encounter years before you even consider applying to be a law professor. Something that has no relationship at all to the skills academics need. You better score extremely high on the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) (or now at some schools the GRE). If you don't score toward the very top, you will likely not be admitted to a Top Ten-ranked law school. And if you don't attend a Top Ten-ranked law school, no matter what you accomplish during your time at the school you do attend (even one ranked among the top twenty) or afterward, your chances of teaching at a Top Ten-ranked law school are virtually nonexistent. The reality is that by far the most important credential one needs to teach at a Top Ten-ranked law school is to attend a Top Ten-ranked law school. The elite teaching the elite, who will then teach more elites. Most prominent law schools publicly claim to strive for law faculty diversity. Both Harvard and Yale recently issued self-study reports, parts of which discussed faculty diversity. The Yale report said that "students were concerned not just with ethnic, racial, and gender diversity, but with methodological and political diversity." 2

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