Law Professor political contributions from Oregon

Eight Oregon donors, about one-sixth of Law Professor dollars

Occupation LAW PROFESSOR and donor state OR produce $1,332,308, 258 contributions, and 8 donors. The occupation hub is $7,994,222, 27,538 contributions, and 934 donors. Oregon’s dollar share is about 16.7% ($1,332,308 of $7,994,222). Its contribution share is about 0.94% (258 of 27,538). Its donor share is about 0.86% (8 of 934).

Dollar share is roughly twenty times donor share. That is one of the more concentrated cells in this packet wave: a handful of itemized gifts, some of them large, sit in Oregon while 934 people nationwide share the occupation label.

PROFESSOR, LAWYER, and ATTORNEY are other keys. They are not inside $7,994,222 unless grouped here. This packet does not claim that grouping.

LAW PROFESSOR is a typed title, not a tenure file

Filers type LAW PROFESSOR. FEC.gov does not verify a faculty appointment, a law school, or bar membership. Nine hundred thirty-four national donors used the string. People who typed PROFESSOR OF LAW or LEGAL ACADEMIC would sit in other slugs if stored that way.

Twenty-seven thousand five hundred thirty-eight contributions from 934 donors nationwide is about 29 itemized gifts per donor. Oregon’s 258 contributions from 8 donors is about 32 gifts per donor. Receipt frequency is similar; gift size is not. The dollar concentration is in amount, not in how often the eight donors appear relative to the national pace.

Per-donor dollars in the Oregon cell

Dividing $1,332,308 by 8 donors yields about $166,538 per donor. Dividing by 258 contributions yields about $5,164 per gift. Nationally, $7,994,222 divided by 27,538 contributions is about $290 per gift. The Oregon mean gift is many times the national occupation mean. With eight unique donors, a few large itemized receipts explain the cell.

Donor state OR is the address on the receipt. Recipients need not be Oregon committees. This join does not identify the law schools, if any, attached to the eight people, and it does not split party.

Eight Oregon donors produced 258 contributions, about 32 itemized gifts per person, close to the national 29. Frequency is not the story. Amount is: about $5,164 per Oregon gift versus about $290 nationally, and about $166,538 per Oregon donor. With n=8, one large itemized receipt can move every ratio on this page.

What 16.7% does not mean

Oregon’s share of Law Professor-coded dollars is a table split. It is not evidence that Oregon law schools caused the gifts, that legal academics as a class funded a party, or that eight people represent Oregon’s legal academy. Occupation and state travel together on receipts. Causation is not in the join.

Coverage is itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov. Unitemized money and independent expenditures are out of scope. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

LAW PROFESSOR is narrower than PROFESSOR and narrower than LAWYER. An Oregon filer who typed PROFESSOR is not in $1,332,308. An Oregon filer who typed ATTORNEY is not in it either. The 16.7% dollar share is a share of this specialty string, not of legal occupations as a family.

Reading the occupation beside this thin state cell

Law Professor donations carries the $7,994,222 national occupation total and the 934-donor headcount. Oregon campaign finance carries all OR-coded itemized individual activity. All occupations and All FEC ties place this eight-donor cell beside other occupation-state pages so 16.7% of Law Professor dollars is not mistaken for 16.7% of Oregon statewide giving.

The occupation hub still holds $6,661,914 outside Oregon ($7,994,222 minus $1,332,308). More than four-fifths of Law Professor-coded dollars sit in other states. Oregon’s large share is large because the national occupation is $7,994,222, not because eight people are a faculty.

Small n and a 16.7% share

Eight unique donors are few enough that this page should be read as a concentrated cell, not as Oregon legal academia. $1,332,308 divided eight ways is about $166,538 per donor only as a ratio. It is not eight equal gifts and not eight faculty salaries diverted to committees.

The occupation’s other 926 donors (934 minus 8) and $6,661,914 sit outside Oregon. Open the occupation hub before treating 16.7% as the occupation’s geography.

Questions

How much have Law Professor donors in Oregon given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Law Professor and state Oregon total $1,332,308, from 258 contributions and 8 donors. Nationwide, Law Professor-coded receipts are $7,994,222 from 27,538 contributions and 934 donors. Oregon is about 16.7% of those dollars.

Does Law Professor mean faculty at Oregon law schools?

LAW PROFESSOR is the occupation text as entered on itemized filings. FEC aggregates do not verify faculty appointments. The 8 Oregon donors and 934 national donors are people whose records used that title, not a count of tenured faculty.

How can eight donors be 17% of the occupation’s dollars?

Eight donors produced $1,332,308, about 16.7% of $7,994,222, while making up about 0.86% of 934 national donors. Average gift in the cell is about $5,164 versus about $290 nationally. The share describes concentration, not a faculty-wide program.

Is this money given to Oregon candidates?

Not necessarily. OR is the donor state on the contribution. The $1,332,308 can be received by any FEC-filing committee. This page does not break receipts by office or by in-state versus out-of-state committees.