Why they tend to support Romney.
I wonder what proportion of law professors are libertarian. A pretty small one, I’d guess.
And clearly Democrats are hostile to libertarianism, whereas Republicans tend to be much more tolerant of it, as he notes. This is why the “liberaltarianism” bubble a few years ago was always a mirage.
My first Con Law professor was a libertarian. That course involved the more structural elements of the Constitution and the history of its interpretation in such matters (like Commerce Clause jurisprudence, the powers of the branches, that sort of thing).
In my second Con Law class, the professor was quite leftwing. That class dealt with the Bill of Rights, primarily.
Overall, I’d say my professors leaned leftwards a bit, but not as much as in university programs taken as a whole.