Law professor donations in the 2012 FEC cycle

A compact title in 2012

LAW PROFESSOR plus cycle 2012 equals $1,833,095. Professor, law faculty, and attorney who teach are other keys if that is what was typed. This join does not recode faculty ranks or schools.

22.9% of the occupation total in one presidential cycle is arithmetic on two packet dollars, not a claim that law professors concentrated their giving only in 2012. Other cycle amounts are not listed here. Parent hubs: Law Professor donations and the 2012 election cycle.

The occupation hub for Law Professor lists $8.0 million ($7,994,222) under the exact string LAW PROFESSOR. The 2012 election-cycle hub is a different cut: every occupation that filed in 2012, not only this label. This ties page is the cell where those two filters meet. All occupations and All FEC ties keep sibling joins in the same directory so a reader can move without mixing totals.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Law Professor in 2012 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $1.8 million. The occupation page and the 2012 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees and other cuts.

A small occupation bucket

$8.0 million ($7,994,222) is modest next to generic labels such as attorney. The two-word title is specific, so the bucket is smaller. Specificity is a filing choice. People who wrote professor or teacher are outside this total.

Law school names are employer fields, not occupation fields. Employer is not in this packet, so $7,994,222 is not a ranking of schools.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $1,833,095. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $7,994,222. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Law Professor donations and the live 2012 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot.

Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $1,833,095. If a later harvest revises 828 or 321, revise the volume sentence and leave the occupation rollup ($7,994,222) unchanged unless that rollup moved too.

321 donors, 828 receipts

321 donors produced 828 receipts — about 2.6 lines per donor. Mean per donor about $5,711; mean per receipt about $2,214. A 321-donor file is small enough that a few large itemized gifts can dominate $1.8 million. No median.

Repeat gifts to several committees inflate the receipt count faster than the donor count. 828 is a line count. It is not 321 people each giving once.

828 is a receipt count. 321 is a distinct-donor count inside this occupation-cycle cell. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by the string. People who left the occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $1.8 million.

High share, small denominator

22.9% looks large because $7,994,222 is a smaller occupation total, not because this page ranked faculty. Keep $1,833,095 on the 2012 sentence. Do not add it to the occupation total.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. All occupations lists attorney and professor as separate keys if those strings exist.

Dividing $1,833,095 by 828 receipts yields about $2,214 per line. Dividing by 321 donors yields about $5,711 per person in the cell. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income.

Not a faculty roster

Law Professor is self-reported. LobbyVault does not match ABA faculty lists or tenure status. An adjunct who typed the title is in $1.8 million; a tenured professor who typed professor is not.

No ranking of law schools, no inference about legal doctrine, no party split. The join is 321 donors, 828 receipts, $1,833,095 in 2012.

FEC.gov individual contribution files carry the occupation as the filer typed it. This join does not recode LAW PROFESSOR into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a medical-board specialty. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string and do the mapping themselves.

Questions

How much did law professors donate in 2012?

Filers who listed Law Professor itemized $1,833,095 in FEC individual contributions in 2012, from 828 receipts and 321 donors. That cell is 22.9% of $7,994,222 under LAW PROFESSOR. Professor and attorney are other keys when those are the words on the form.

Why is the 2012 share of the occupation total so high?

22.9% is $1,833,095 divided by $7,994,222. The occupation bucket is relatively small, so one presidential cycle can be a large fraction of it. That is arithmetic, not a motive. Other cycle amounts are not in this packet and are not invented here.

Does this include law-school PACs or university PACs?

No. $1.8 million is individual contributions tagged Law Professor. Committee filings are a different FEC table. Employer is not in the packet, so receipts are not grouped by university. See Law Professor donations or the 2012 election cycle for committee names.

What two dimensions does this page join?

The Law Professor occupation hub ($8.0 million) and the 2012 election cycle. The overlap is $1,833,095 from 321 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Law Professor in 2012 is $1,833,095 on 828 receipts from 321 donors.