Tracey George (Vanderbilt) completes her series of posts on ranking law school faculties by their commitment to empirical legal scholarship with a ranking of the Top 50 schools based on three variables:

• Relative number of research faculty with social science doctorates
• Relative number of research faculty with a secondary social science appointment
• Per capita articles citing “statistic! /1 significan!” in Westlaw JLR since 1996

This ranking updates the paper Tracey presented at our 2005 symposium on The Next Generation of Law School Rankings (An Empirical Study of Empirical Legal Scholarship: The Top Law Schools, 81 Ind. L.J. 141 (2006)).  Here are the Top 10 faculties by this measure:

Rank	School
1	Northwestern
2	George Mason
3-tie	Cornell
3-tie	Vanderbilt
3-tie	Yale
6-tie	Chicago
6-tie	Illinois
8-tie	Pennsylvania
8-tie	UC-Berkeley
10-tie	Stanford
10-tie	USC