Updated Sept. 29, 2011: Theodore P. Seto (Loyola-L.A.) has updated his ranking of the Top 25 U.S. Law School Tax Faculties, as measured by the number of SSRN downloads (through Sept. 9, 2011). To minimize the distortive effect of his own rankings articles, he has eliminated from Loyola-L.A.’s count downloads attributable to his own two most downloaded articles, neither of which pertains directly to tax. He has not eliminated downloads of non-tax articles from the counts of any other author.
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All-Time Downloads
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Recent Downloads
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1
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Michigan
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40,754
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Michigan
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7353
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2
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Harvard
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30,062
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Illinois
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5368
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3
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Illinois
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26,241
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Florida
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4221
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4
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Pennsylvania.
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18,729
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Cincinnati
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4107
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5
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Cincinnati
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17,771
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Harvard
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3552
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6
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Colorado
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17,209
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Loyola-L.A.
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3423
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7
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USC
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16,652
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UC-Davis
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3026
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8
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UC-Davis
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16,432
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USC
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2698
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9
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Loyola-L.A.
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16,417
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NYU
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2639
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10
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Chicago
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15,922
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Pennsylvania
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2209
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11
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UCLA
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14,709
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Chapman
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2151
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12
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Florida
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13,785
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Brooklyn
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2086
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13
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NYU
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12,801
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Chicago
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2032
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14
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Boston College
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11,924
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Minnesota
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1967
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15
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Columbia
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11,557
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Boston College
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1938
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16
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Chapman
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11,290
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Colorado
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1867
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17
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Brooklyn
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10,967
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Pace
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1866
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18
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Boston Univ.
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10,856
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UCLA
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1834
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19
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Vanderbilt
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8941
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Vanderbilt
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1793
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20
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Baltimore
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8862
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Case Western
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1610
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21
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Pace
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7962
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Columbia
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1609
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22
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Stanford
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7775
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Baltimore
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1605
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23
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Notre Dame
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7749
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San Diego
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1431
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24
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Florida State
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7739
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Boston Univ.
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1405
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25
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Indiana
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6998
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Florida State
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1353
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For purpose of Ted’s analysis, a tax professor is initially defined as any full-time law professor at a U.S. law school (1) self-identifying with one of the tax categories in the AALS faculty listing, (2) who has posted at least one tax or tax-related article in abstract or full text on SSRN. Paul Caron’s listing of new hires and lateral transfers is also reflected. Further corrections are made as requested. As is true of Paul Caron’s ranking of individual tax professors, downloads of all SSRN postings of any tax professor, so defined, are then tallied. Articles co-authored by members of a single faculty are counted only once towards that faculty’s tally.
For more on the use of SSRN downloads in law school rankings, see Bernard S. Black & Paul L. Caron, Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. 83 (2006).
