Fun With SSRN Law School Rankings
posted by Dave Hoffman
The latest SSRN’s Top Law School Rankings (based on new downloads) is up. I thought it would be fun to list the top fifty schools according to SSRN, taking out non-US schools from the mix. In rank order, the list follows after the jump.
1 Harvard University - Harvard Law School
2 Columbia University - Columbia Law School
3 University of Chicago - Law School
4 University of Texas at Austin - School of Law
5 University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
6 Stanford Law School
7 Yale University - Law School
8 George Washington University - Law School
9 University of Illinois College of Law
10 Georgetown University Law Center
11 Vanderbilt University - School of Law
12 University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Law
13 New York University - School of Law
14 George Mason University - School of Law
15 University of California, Berkeley - School of Law (Boalt Hall)
16 University of Southern California - Law School
17 University of Pennsylvania - School of Law
18 Ohio State University - Michael E. Moritz College of Law
19 Boston University - School of Law
20 University of San Diego - School of Law
21 Duke University - School of Law
22 University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Law School
23 Florida State University - College of Law
24 Northwestern University - School of Law
25 Boston College - Law School
26 Emory University - School of Law
27 University of Virginia - School of Law
28 Fordham University - School of Law
29 Cornell University - School of Law
30 Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington
31 Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
32 Michigan State University - College of Law
33 Loyola Marymount University - Loyola Law School Los Angeles
34 Case Western Reserve University - School of Law
35 University of Cincinnati - College of Law
36 University of Iowa, College of Law
37 New York Law School
38 Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law
39 Washington University, St. Louis - School of Law
40 University of Wisconsin Law School
41 Brooklyn Law School
42 Notre Dame Law School
43 University of Tennessee, Knoxville - College of Law
44 University of Maryland - School of Law
45 University of Colorado Law School
46 Northern Kentucky University - Salmon P. Chase College of Law
47 University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law
48 University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law
49 Marquette University - Law School
50 Hofstra University - School of Law
Incidentally, I bet there is a highly significant correlation between a given positive difference between this list and the USWR rankings and whether a school has started a SSRN legal research paper series.
[Update: A minor correction above - taking out one additional non-US school, results in an addition to the list.]
[A Second Update: Check out Al Brophy's complete exploration of these data here.]
August 14, 2006 at 5:19 pm
Posted in: Law School (Rankings)
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Joseph Hovsep - August 30, 2006 at 12:59 pm
Does this take into account the relative sizes of the student bodies and faculties? Failure to account for that would skew the list quite a bit.
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