SSRN has updated its new monthly rankings of 200 American and international law school faculties and 1,000 American law professors by (among other things) the number of downloads of their papers from the SSRN data base. Here is the new list of the Top 25 Tax Faculty in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and new downloads (within the past 12 months):
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SSRN Rankings of Top 25 Tax Faculty |
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All-Time Downloads |
Recent Downloads |
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Tax Faculty (School) |
Tax Rank |
Tax Rank |
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Louis Kaplow (Harvard) |
1 |
39 |
2 |
74 |
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David Schizer (Columbia) |
2 |
100 |
7 |
161 |
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David Walker (Boston University) |
3 |
102 |
12 |
208 |
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Edward McCaffery (USC) |
4 |
104 |
1 |
58 |
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David Weisbach (Chicago) |
5 |
131 |
11 |
200 |
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Steven Bank (UCLA) |
6 |
148 |
4 |
104 |
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Victor Fleischer (UCLA) |
7 |
159 |
8 |
178 |
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Paul Caron (Cincinnati) |
8 |
164 |
3 |
101 |
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Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan) |
9 |
183 |
6 |
127 |
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Daniel Shaviro (NYU) |
10 |
190 |
10 |
197 |
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Terrence Chorvat (Geo. Mason) |
11 |
201 |
5 |
123 |
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Sam Thompson (UCLA) |
12 |
271 |
– |
919 |
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Elizabeth Garrett (USC) |
13 |
290 |
14 |
244 |
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Barbara Fried (Stanford) |
14 |
302 |
20 |
382 |
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Richard Kaplan (Illinois) |
15 |
339 |
13 |
239 |
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William Bradford (Princeton-NYU) |
16 |
352 |
9 |
187 |
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Calvin Johnson (Texas) |
17 |
370 |
24 |
428 |
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Jeff Strnad (Stanford) |
18 |
380 |
15 |
263 |
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Kyle Logue (Michigan) |
19 |
402 |
– |
540 |
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Michael Asimow (UCLA) |
20 |
429 |
21 |
388 |
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Theodore Seto (Loyola-L.A.) |
21 |
452 |
– |
522 |
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Joseph Bankman (Stanford) |
22 |
454 |
– |
– |
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Leandra Lederman (Indiana) |
23 |
479 |
23 |
419 |
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Herwig Schlunk (Vanderbilt) |
24 |
486 |
– |
760 |
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William Klein (UCLA) |
25 |
493 |
25 |
504 |
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Kirk Stark (UCLA) |
– |
514 |
17 |
318 |
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Anthony Infanti (Pittsburgh) |
– |
528 |
19 |
353 |
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Jim Repetti (Boston College) |
– |
608 |
16 |
290 |
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Michael Knoll (Pennsylvania) |
– |
717 |
18 |
350 |
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Linda Sugin (Fordham) |
– |
819 |
22 |
407 |
Note that this ranking includes tax professors with at least one tax paper on SSRN, and all papers (including non-tax papers) by these tax professors are included in the SSRN data. For the March rankings, see here.
The other SSRN ranking categories are:
These rankings, of course, are imperfect measures of faculty scholarly performance — as are the existing ranking methodologies of reputation surveys, productivity counts, and citation counts. Our modest claim in our piece for the Indiana Symposium on The Next Generation of Law School Rankings to be held April 15 is that the SSRN data can play a role in faculty rankings along with these other measures.
