Brian Leiter's updated survey ranks law schools by citations to their faculty member's scholarship. Here's how UCLA did:
Rank |
School |
Normalized Score |
Weighted Score (meanx2 plus median) |
Mean score |
Median score |
Ten Most Cited Faculty (*indicates over 70) |
15 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
41 |
630 |
235 |
160 |
S. Bainbridge, K. Crenshaw, J. Kang, R. Korobkin, L. LoPucki, N. Netanel, K. Raustiala, K. Stone, L. Stout, E. Volokh |
Paul Caron incorporates the new data into his summary of school ranks on a number of different measures of scholarly quality:
School |
Citations |
U.S. News Peer |
SSRN Downloads |
Mean Rank |
UCLA |
15 |
15 |
7 |
12.3 |
I'm curious that UCLA does so much better in SSRN downloads than citation counts.