One of the unanticipated responses to Gordon's research below on law school teaching loads was the response of non-law academics.  Yes, although we may be quite interested in persuading our Deans to adopt a 3-course load over a 4-course load, we understand that in other departments, the course load is much higher.  I also was sent a spreadsheet this week comparing Assistant Professor Salaries in the Law, Business, Dental, Engineering, Education, Nursing, Health Sciences, Arts & Sciences, and Communications colleges at Marquette.  There is obviously a stark difference (55%) between the average Assistant Professor of Law salary and the Assistant Professor salary in the Arts & Sciences college.  The Business School salaries were the highest.  (However, I do note that the spreadsheet includes our 6 legal writing faculty members in addition to our 6 t-track faculty members, so unless the B school did the same thing, our average t-track salaries may in fact be the highest among the colleges.)

So yes, like the Joe Walsh song says, "I can't complain, but sometimes I still do."  Even though our burden is less and our reward greater than 98% of the world's population, sometimes it behooves us to see what the market is for law academics at other schools.

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