Leiter's Top 35 Law Faculties Based on Scholarly Impact (Citation Counts) • TaxProf Blog

Brian Leiter has published his new ranking of the Top 35 Law Faculties Based on Scholarly Impact (Citation Counts). Here are the Top 10:

1. Yale
2. Chicago
3. Stanford
4. Harvard
5. Columbia
6. NYU
7. Berkeley
8. Duke
9. Michigan
10. UCLA
10. Texas

Brian also lists the Top 10 most-cited faculty at the Top 35 schools, as well as at 13 additional schools. Tax Profs in the Top 10 at these schools are:

Louis Kaplow – Harvard (#4)
Edward Zelinsky – Cardozo (#27)
Edward McCaffery – USC (#27)
Dorothy Brown – Washington & Lee (#33)
Joseph Dodge – Florida State
Leandra Lederman – Indiana
Marjorie Kornhauser – Arizona State
Jim Repetti – Boston College

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Paul Caron

Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the Dorothy and Leonard Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in the spring semesters of 2010 through 2013. He served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Pepperdine in 2015-2017. Before coming to Pepperdine, he was Associate Dean of Faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.