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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