Greg Sisk and a bunch of his St Thomas colleagues have updated their ranking of law schools by the impact of their faculty's scholarship:
This study explores the scholarly impact of law faculties, ranking the top third of ABA-accredited law schools. Refined by Professor Brian Leiter, the “Scholarly Impact Score” for a law faculty is calculated from the mean and the median of total law journal citations over the past five years to the work of tenured members of that law faculty. In addition to a school-by-school ranking, we report the mean, median, and weighted score, along with a listing of the tenured law faculty members at each ranked law school with the ten highest individual citation counts.
Curiously, they find that "The most dramatically under-valued law school is the University of St. Thomas, which ranks inside the top 40 (at #39) for Scholarly Impact, while being relegated by U.S. News outside the top 100 (at #135)—a difference of 96 ordinal levels." A cynic might make hay with that outcome, but I don't have a cynical bone in my body.
Anyway, getting on to the important stuff, UCLA is ranked 13th under their methodology, which means we outperformed our US News ranking (16) and our US News Reputation ranking (also 16). Our top ten most frequently cited faculty (in alphabetical order) are: Bainbridge, S.; Carbado, D.; Crenshaw, K.; Kang, J.; Korobkin, R.; Motomura, H.; Netanel, N.; Raustiala, K.; Salzman, J.; Volokh, E.; Winkler, A.
Finally, they offer an interesting assessment of the state of faculty scholarship that ends up defending it against the law school scam folks.
