From publishing to poker, here are some numbers that provide both a personal and professional take on the Law School’s professors.

Stanford Law School faculty members: 55

Median year for joining the faculty among those active today: 1990 

Number of women: 11 

Number of emeriti: 12 

Number of Foundation Press authors from Stanford Law School faculty: 30 

Total number of citations for the nine faculty members in NEQ’s list of the 100 most cited law professors: 15,060 

Professor Lawrence Friedman’s ranking in citations among legal historians: 1 

Professor Paul Goldstein’s ranking in citations among IP professors: 1 

Dean Kathleen M. Sullivan’s ranking in citations among law school deans: 1 

Age of the youngest professor (Lawrence Lessig) in the top 100 most cited: 41 

Number of faculty members born in New York: 13 

Number born in California: 3 

Number born in Illinois: 9

Number of faculty members who completed this magazine’s faculty survey: 36 

Number of respondents who say that they had decided to go to law school before they turned 18 years old: 10 

Number of respondents who had a lawyer for a parent: 4 

Number of respondents who consider themselves vegetarians: 3 

Number of respondents who play piano: 11 

Number of respondents who play poker with Law School colleagues: 11 

Number of respondents who regularly reread the works of Jane Austen: 2 

Number of respondents who regularly reread The Lord of the Rings: 2 

Number of respondents who have met with members of Congress to discuss policy in the last year: 13 

Number of respondents who argued a case in court or filed a brief in the last year: 11 

Length of commute to office for a majority of the respondents: 15 MINUTES OR LESS 

Number of respondents who bicycled to work last winter: 7 

Number of respondents who ate lunch outside last winter: 26 

Number of respondents who went skiing in the Sierra last winter: 5 

Longest time this summer spent by a faculty member piloting a self-launching sea plane: 4 HOURS 30 MINUTES (MITCH POLINSKY) 

Professor Robert Weisberg’s best marathon time: 3 HOURS 39 MINUTES

Number of faculty members who clerked for a Supreme Court Justice: 14 

Number who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall: 3 

Professors with PhDs in fields other than law: 9 

Number who graduated from Harvard Law School: 10 

Number who graduated from Yale Law School: 15 

Number who graduated from Stanford Law School: 7 

Number who are or have been affiliated with the Hoover Institution: 5 

Number who are or have been affiliated with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences: 5 

Number of survey respondents who subscribe to the New York Times: 25 

Number of survey respondents who subscribe to the Wall Street Journal: 7 

Percentage of respondents who have cowritten a paper with a Law School colleague: 31 Percentage who had a Law School colleague review a draft of their most recent publication: 75