Female and Minority Law Professors Said to Need Mentors

Law schools should be sure that female and minority professors have mentors and other support to improve their chances of winning tenure, according to panelists who spoke this month at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools.

The panelists discussed data, released by the law-school group in September, that showed that female and minority professors were less likely to win tenure than their white, male colleagues. In 1997-98, 90 percent of tenured law professors

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