Rankings
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Most cited legal philosophers by D-Index according to research.com (CORRECTED & UPDATED)
We’ve noted the “D-index” (an h-index for discipline-specific journals) calculated by research.com previously. (Their rankings of universities in law are pretty silly, since the faculty lists include deceasd faculty, retired faculty, and faculty who are not law professors.) They clearly don’t count law reviews for D-index, only faculty-edited journals, which is appropriate for legal philosophy.…
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Trends in major gifts to law schools
Some interesting data from lawprof Sloan Speck (Colorado). Professor Speck references an earlier post of mine about whether “transformative” gifts really transform. It’s not clear to me that any of them “transformed” any of the affected schools. (Penn is ranked higher now in the silly USNews.com, but that’s due to a change in the formula…
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Law Schools Unfairly Ranked by U.S. News
MOVING TO FRONT (ORIGINALLY POSTED OCT. 3 2011, SLIGHTLY REVISED IN THE INTERIM), SINCE IT IS TIMELY AGAIN I've occasionally commented in the past about particular schools that clearly had artificially low overall ranks in U.S. News, and readers e-mail me periodically asking about various schools in this regard. Since the overall rank in U.S. News is a…
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LSAT scores aren’t what they used to be, and schools need not obsess about them
I missed this illuminating analysis by Derek Muller (Notre Dame) from several months ago, but it is worth reading!
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This is a more plausible “ranking” of law reviews…
…based on an aggregation of various metrics. I would disregard the ordinal order entirely, and think solely in terms of "clusters." This is certainly more sensible than the bizarre Washington & Lee ranking of law reviews (which is part of this aggregation, but whose weirdness is neutralized by some of the other metrics used here).
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Law schools should oppose an ABA proposal to double the experiential learning credits from 6 to 12
The ABA is up to mischief again, which needs to be opposed for the sake of law students. Here's what I wrote the last time this awful idea was being floated: Law schools differ, in their student bodies, in their employment outcomes. Law students differ, in their personal and professional goals, and in their…
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Corporate Practice Commentator’s “top 10” corporate & securities articles for 2024
The selected articles are: Contract Production in M&A Markets, 171 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1881-1924 (2023), Choi, Stephen J; Gulati, Mitu; Jennejohn, Mathew; Scott, Robert E. Corporate Racial Responsibility, 124 Colum. L. Rev. 361-430 (2024), Fletcher, Gina-Gail S; Lovelace, H. Timothy Jr. Gender and the Social Structure of Exclusion in U.S. Corporate Law, 90 U.…
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Will US News or the ABA audit these 10-month out employment statistics?
Some are certainly plausible, but many "stink to high heavens" as my Grandmother used to say. When someone who has Trump's ear is calling for fraud on US News to be grounds for sending University Presidents to prison, this is probably not the time to push the envelope! UPDATE: Professor Derek Muller (Notre Dame) writes:…
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Projecting next year’s USNews.com law school rankings
Derek Muller offers another prognosis, based on the existing formula and the public data. Fluctuations in reputation scores, which do occur, will change the final results. One thing we know from the past is that the "overall" rankings starts to influence the reputational survey rankings. Will this start to affect schools like Columbia and NYU…
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20 most cited International Law/National Security/Foreign Affairs Law faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the twenty most-cited law faculty working in international law, national security law and/or foreign affairs law in the U.S. for the period 2019-2023 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2024, and that the pre-2024 database did expand a bit since then). …
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10 most-cited Health Law faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023 (CORRECTED)
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited health law faculty in the U.S. for the period 2019-2023 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2024, and that the pre-2024 database did expand a bit since then). Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten. Faculty for whom…
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15 most cited Law & Economics faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023 (CORRECTED)
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the fifteen most-cited law faculty in law & economics (including behavioral law & economics) in the U.S. for the period 2019-2023 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2024, and that the pre-2024 database did expand a bit since then). Numbers are…
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10 most-cited Election Law faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023 (CORRECTED)
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited election law faculty in the U.S. for the period 2019-2023 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2024, and that the pre-2024 database did expand a bit since then). Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten. Faculty for whom…
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10 most-cited Labor & Employment Law faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited labor and/or employment law faculty in the U.S. for the period 2019-2023 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2024, and that the pre-2024 database did expand a bit since then). Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten. Faculty…
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10 most cited Family Law faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023 (CORRECTED AGAIN)
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited family law faculty in the U.S. for the period 2019-2023 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2024, and that the pre-2024 database did expand a bit since then). Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten. Faculty for whom…
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