For anyone interested, the results of the 2014 survey of leading experts is now on-line, hosted by Wiley-Blackwell. Philosophy is unlike law in that many of the very best departments are not at "brand name" universities, and many "brand name" universities do not have top philosophy departments. (There's also more than thirty areas of specialization ranked, including philosophy of law.)



I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…