Rankings
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10 most cited Tax Law faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law tax 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…
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10 most cited Law & Philosophy faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law faculty in law & philosophy 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. …
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15 most cited Law & Social Science faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the fifteen most-cited law faculty in "law & social science" (excluding economics; including "law & society," "empirical legal studies," sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology) 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…
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Citation lists going forward (IMPORTANT UPDATE)
Going forward, I won't produce any "most cited" ordinal lists in specialty areas when the citation total for the five-year period is below 300. Partly this is for reasons of time, but partly it is that I'm skeptical that as the citation numbers get smaller, ordinal differences are very meaningful. That means for some of…
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20 most cited Administrative and/or Environmental Law faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023 (CORRECTED)
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the twenty most-cited law faculty in administrative and/or environmental 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). Numbers are rounded to the nearest…
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20 most cited Constitutional Law faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the twenty most-cited law faculty in constitutional 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). Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten. Faculty…
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Ten most cited law faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited active law professors in the U.S. for the period 2016-2020 (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. (Law professors not…
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Top 50 U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact, 2024
Professor Greg Sisk & colleagues at the University of St. Thomas have updated their scholarly impact rankings (last edition), looking at mean and median citations to tenured faculty scholarship for the years 2019-2023 inclusive, using fall 2024 faculty rosters as the benchmark (so, e.g., faculty on indefinite leave in government service are not counted). (Sisk…
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The “peer” (academic) reputation score in USNews.com’s new ranking
The Blog Emperor compiles the data. One could quibble with some of these results (e.g., Stanford isn't #1, except maybe in California!), but for the top 20 or so it's a lot less misleading than the "overall" ranking.
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Non-JD enrollment at “top 20ish” law schools
My former Texas colleague John Dzienkowski calls my attention to this astonishing chart showing non-JD enrollment (mostly LLM and SJD enrollment) at some leading law schools. LLM students are usually paying tuition, and are invisible to USNews.com rankings. Penn, which is half the size of Harvard, has as many non-JD students, which is extraordinary. So…
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San Francisco City Attorney subpoenas USNews.com over its hospital rankings…
…suspecting conflicts of interest, and USNews.com sues claiming violation of its First Amendment right to mislead consumers (OK, they left out the "mislead consumers" part). As we've noted before, prevailing in a lawsuit against USNews.com would be difficult.
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Texas A&M grads have highest bar pass rate in Texas
That's quite an achievement; the Texas Wesleyan school, which A&M took over and transformed starting only a decade ago, was regularly in the bottom half of Texas schools for bar passage rate.
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USNew.com changed its meaningless formula for the college rankings significantly this year…
…and lawprof Derek Muller (Notre Dame) speculates about whether this portends further changes to the law school rankings. I'll just note that in the 1990s, US News (back when they were still an actual magazine, not a website) used to include average starting salaries of graduates, but then dropped that since it had more to…
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Which law school has the strongest scholarly faculty?
It's that time of year for another amusing Internet poll: pairwise comparisons of the "top 40" law faculties. More than 60 choices. Have fun!
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14 lateral moves that made law professors “take notice” during 2022-23
Based on my in-box and conversations with others, these were 14 moves that transpired this past year that were thought to be the biggest hiring coups (I usually list only ten, but this was another big year for lateral moves): *Derek Bambauer (intellectual property, law & technology) from the University of Arizona to the…
My former colleagues at another university in Middle East have also been moved to online teaching indefinitely, with the students…