What law-professor donors give in federal races

Fewer donors, high-repeat academic title

$7,994,222, 27,538 itemizations, and 934 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $290. Mean dollars per donor record are about $8,559. Repeat giving is about 29 itemizations per donor record.

27,538 lines from 934 records is a high-repeat academic-title stack. The $290 per-line mean is arithmetic on that volume. The packet has no tenure field, no school name, and no median gift. A few large itemizations can lift the average while most lines remain smaller.

934 donor records on 27,538 lines is a high-repeat academic pool: about 29 itemizations per record. Mean dollars per donor record of about $8,559 sit near BOARD MEMBER even though the per-line mean is lower. The packet has no tenure field, no school name, and no party flag, so $7,994,222 cannot be read as a law-faculty census.

LAW PROFESSOR is not PROFESSOR and not ATTORNEY

The FEC record does not verify that the donor holds a faculty appointment. Adjuncts, visitors, and people who also practice law can type LAW PROFESSOR on some gifts and ATTORNEY on others. Best-efforts rules do not force a university taxonomy.

This page cites only $7,994,222, 27,538 contributions, and 934 donors. PROFESSOR, ATTORNEY, and TEACHER remain other keys unless the bulk extract merged them. Combining those strings without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC occupation to a homemade cluster.

Donor records and dual academic titles

934 donor records used LAW PROFESSOR on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed LAW PROFESSOR on some gifts and PROFESSOR on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party or law-school affiliation from the two-word string. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter $7,994,222.

Committees receiving these itemizations are not named in the packet. The 27,538 lines are occupation-side totals only. Refunds, redesignations, and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Do not treat $7,994,222 as net of refunds unless a later extract says so.

Industry pages group employers, not faculty titles

Industry pages group employer-side categories. A public-university faculty member and a private-school lecturer share this occupation string if they typed LAW PROFESSOR. Adding $7,994,222 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the LAW PROFESSOR occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place the string next to PROFESSOR and ATTORNEY.

LAW PROFESSOR dollars of $7,994,222 sit on 27,538 itemizations from 934 donor records. High repeat giving of about 29 lines per record is the citation pattern, not a faculty headcount. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code and never enter this total.

Citation language

A usable sentence is: occupation equals LAW PROFESSOR, dollars equal $7,994,222, contributions equal 27,538, donors equal 934, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Quote the three facts together so the high-repeat mean is visible next to the headline dollars. Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules.

Reading LAW PROFESSOR as an academic two-word key

LAW PROFESSOR in this extract is $7,994,222 on 27,538 itemizations from 934 donor records, or $8.0 million in compact millions. Those dollars are itemized activity on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data. People who type PROFESSOR OF LAW, LAW FACULTY, or ATTORNEY may sit on other occupation pages. Only the exact LAW PROFESSOR key is in $7,994,222.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $290 per contribution and about $8,559 per donor record, with roughly 29 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. 934 donor records on 27,538 lines is a high-repeat faculty-title pool, not a census of ABA-accredited faculty.

Industry pages should not be added to $7,994,222. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals LAW PROFESSOR, dollars equal $7,994,222, contributions equal 27,538, donors equal 934.

LAW PROFESSOR, PROFESSOR, and ATTORNEY can describe overlapping people in ordinary speech and remain separate FEC strings. This page is only LAW PROFESSOR: $7,994,222, 27,538 contributions, 934 donors. Adjuncts who typed PROFESSOR on some gifts and LAW PROFESSOR on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines.

Questions

How much have law-professor donors given in FEC data?

The LAW PROFESSOR occupation string is attached to $7,994,222 across 27,538 contributions and 934 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not a census of law-school faculty. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does LAW PROFESSOR include attorneys who also teach?

Only if those donors typed LAW PROFESSOR on the matching itemization. ATTORNEY is a separate key unless the extract merged them. This page covers LAW PROFESSOR: $7,994,222, 27,538 contributions, and 934 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules.

What is the average law-professor contribution?

Dividing $7,994,222 by 27,538 itemizations yields about $290 per contribution. Dividing by 934 donors yields about $8,559 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 29 itemizations per donor record. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing law professor prove a faculty appointment?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify tenure or school. Quote 27,538 contributions and 934 donor records with the $7,994,222 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.