Law school rankings
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Law schools that produce the most law professors, 2017-2026 (both gross and “per capita” as it were)
Courtesy of Derek Muller. About what I would have expected, although Stanford’s recent performance is better than its historical performance (perhaps the change to USNEWS.com rankings several years ago which pushed Stanford to #1 and demoted Harvard to #5 have helped). I do expect Yale’s numbers to drop in the coming years. UPDATE: A more…
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2014 Scholarly Impact study: most cited faculty by area
A propos this, here’s another older scholarly impact study (from June 2014): The last scholarly impact study, from 2012, conducted by Prof. Greg Sisk and colleagues at St. Thomas, using the methodology I have used previously, did not include a breakdown of highly cited faculty in various areas of specialization (as we had done in…
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Law schools with placement in the “best” law teaching jobs (2006)
A propos this, another old study from 2006: This study examined which schools are most successful at placing their graduates in “top” law school teaching positions. “Top” law schools for this purpose meant schools that either (1) are ranked in the top 50 by U.S. News with some frequency, or (2) are ranked in the…
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Texas A&M Law “on the move”
I’m not talking about its much-improved USNews.com rank, which may help with student recruitment, but doesn’t mean anything. I’m talking about the faculty hiring bonanza that has seen the recruitment in recent years of William Sage (health law) from UT Austin, Neil Siegel (constitutional law) from Duke and, most recently, Larry Solum (constitutional law &…
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Berkeley law touts its rankings
And they should, given that they are badly treated by USNews.com. The fatal problem, of course, with HeinOnLine rankngs is that they only record citations to articles in the Hein database that are cited by articles in the Hein database, which is to say that a huge amount of important legal scholarship vanishes as a…
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Most cited Anglophone scholarly monographs on corporate law (by law professors) since WWII (according to Google Scholar) (CORRECTED)
Results rounded to the nearest 100, as usual. Only books with at least 1,000 citations are listed. Treatises are not included. Please email me with omissions/corrections.
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Why the big decline in JD students transferring to another law school?
Lawprof Derek Muller explores some possible reasons. Comments are open here for those with additional hypotheses or thoughts.
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Law professors publishing in peer-reviewed finance journals
Here, courtesy of Mike Simkovic. These journals are important in the corporate law/finance world, less so elsewhere. It would be interesting to see similar studies involving law faculty who have published in elite peer-refereed philosophy, economics, and political science journals. If anyone compiles the information, let me know.
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Most cited books on American constitutional law since WWII (according to Google Scholar)
I’ve tried to list all scholarly monographs with at least 1,000 citations (rounded to the nearest 100). I excluded treatises. Please email me with corrections or omissions
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Top ten law schools with the highest percentage of tenured faculty in the top 96 by D-index
Following up on yesterday’s post about the top 95 faculty by D-index, here are the top ten schools based on the percentage of their tenured faculty who made the top 95. Rank School % of tenured faculty # of faculty 1 University of Chicago 24% 9 2 Yale University 17% 9 3 Stanford…
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Top 96 law professors ranked by D-index for 2025… [CORRECTED]
…according to https://research.com./. The d-index is the H-index for discipline specific journals. Unfortunately, they don’t specify the list of discipline-specific journals, but it almost certainly does not include student-edited law reviews (but almost certainly does include all faculty-edited law-related journals, including interdisciplinary ones). Some fields are promiscuous with their citation practices (e.g., health law and…
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Predicting the next set of USNews.com rankings…
…using the latest ABA data. My guess is USNews.com will tweak the formula to avoid demoting Yale to 5th.
As an international student, I honestly don’t know how good an indicator the GRE is, at least for students whose…