Law Professor political money in the 2008 cycle

Law Professor as occupation, 2008 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation LAW PROFESSOR and election cycle 2008. Matching rows sum to $710,143, 1,062 contributions, and 387 donors. LAW PROFESSOR is an academic legal title. FEC.gov does not confirm tenure, school, or bar status. The occupation hub is $7,994,222 across every cycle in the aggregate. The 2008 cycle hub mixes every other occupation that used that year. Neither hub restates this intersection; this tie page exists because the two dimensions meet.

2008’s dollar share is 8.9% ($710,143 of $7,994,222). The remainder, $7,284,079, sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. 1,062 lines from 387 donors with about 2.7 gifts per person is a repeat-gift academic cell in a presidential cycle. Correlation between a job title and a two-year FEC window is a reporting overlap, not causation of an election outcome. Itemized individual receipts are the coverage. Unitemized money never appears in $710,143.

The Law Professor string across every cycle

$7,994,222 is the occupation-side denominator. It is not limited to 2008. Professor, Attorney, and Law School Professor are other occupation keys if stored separately. Adding those keys to $7,994,222 would be a researcher-built recode, not this table. Occupation labels are filer-entered on itemized individual receipts.

Open Law Professor donations for the $7,994,222 roll. Open the 2008 election cycle hub for every occupation in that window. All occupations and All FEC ties place this pair beside other occupation-cycle pages without combining dollar figures. This page is not legal advice. Professor without Law is a different stored string covering other disciplines.

387 donors and about 2.7 gifts per donor

Dividing $710,143 by 1,062 contributions yields about $669 per gift. Dividing by 387 donors yields about $1,835 per donor. Gifts per donor average about 2.7 (1,062 ÷ 387). Those ratios describe this string in 2008, not payroll at firms that employ people with similar titles.

387 is a donor-key count inside the occupation × cycle aggregate, not a headcount of everyone who held the job in 2008. Repeat itemization, couples filing separately, and people who used the string on some receipts but not others all move the 387 figure. The cycle hub still holds every other occupation’s 2008 receipts beside this cell.

What 8.9% of Law Professor dollars is not

A 8.9% share of Law Professor-coded dollars from 2008 does not mean the occupation caused those gifts, and it does not mean people with that title funded a policy outcome. Occupation and cycle are reported together. The overlap is descriptive. Independent expenditures, committee-to-committee transfers, and unitemized gifts are out of scope.

Federal awards on USAspending.gov are a different ledger. This join does not claim that 2008 donations funded contracts or grants. Quote $710,143 as itemized individual receipts tagged LAW PROFESSOR in 2008, source FEC.gov, and stop there.

How to cite Law Professor × 2008

A complete claim names Law Professor and 2008, then $710,143, 1,062 contributions, 387 donors, and 8.9% of $7,994,222, source FEC.gov. Do not convert 387 keys into licensed or employed practitioners. Do not fold independent expenditures or USAspending awards into the cell. Keep both sides of the name—Law Professor and 2008—whenever the dollars are quoted. Mean gift $669 and mean per donor $1,835 travel with those counts; they do not travel with a licensing board.

Occupation hub, 2008 hub, and Professor as a sibling

The occupation hub still holds $7,284,079 outside 2008. Most of the $7,994,222 roll is not this cycle’s cell. This page isolates the overlap for readers who need both the title and the year, not either hub restated. Professor, Attorney, and Law School Professor are other occupation keys if stored separately. Those titles are not parents of LAW PROFESSOR on this page. Gifts per donor in 2008 average about 2.7. That ratio is 1,062 divided by 387, not a measure of turnout.

Questions

How much did Law Professor-tagged donors give in 2008?

The join records $710,143 in itemized individual contributions for occupation Law Professor in the 2008 FEC cycle, from 1,062 contributions and 387 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle total is $7,994,222, so 2008 is 8.9% of that roll. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this count every law professor who donated in 2008?

No. The 387 donor keys are people whose itemized receipts grouped to LAW PROFESSOR in 2008. Filers who used a different title are other occupation rows. FEC.gov does not verify jobs. The cell totals $710,143 on 1,062 lines. Unitemized gifts never appear in this aggregate.

What share of Law Professor occupation money is the 2008 cycle?

8.9%: $710,143 of $7,994,222. The remaining $7,284,079 sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. That share is $710,143 divided by $7,994,222, not a ranking of civic engagement and not a peak-year list. Other years’ amounts are not in this packet except as that remainder.

Where are the live Law Professor and 2008 tables?

Law Professor donations carries the $7,994,222 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle hub places Law Professor beside other occupation strings that year. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the Law Professor × 2008 intersection only.