Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Tax Faculty Rankings
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The SSRN Top Five New Tax Papers Ranking Is Broken
The SSRN tax download rankings are broken and may never return
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Phillips & Yoo: A Better Faculty Citation Rankings System
James Cleith Phillips & John Yoo (both of UC-Berkeley), The Cite Stuff: Inventing a Better Law Faculty Relevance Measure: Citation rankings as a measure of scholarly quality are both controversial and popular. They provide a quantitative, albeit imperfect, measure of intellectual impact and productivity. But the number of times a scholar has been cited by
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Tax LL.M. Program Rankings by Tax Hiring Authorities
I previously blogged the 2012 and 2013 U.S. News Tax LL.M. program rankings: 2013 Rank Grad Tax Program 2012 Rank 1 NYU 1 2 Florida 2 3 Georgetown 3 4 Northwestern 4 5 Boston University 6 6 Miami 5 7 Loyola-L.A. 7 8 San Diego 8 9 Villanova 8 10 Denver n/r n/r U. Washington
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SSRN Tax Faculty Rankings
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
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New 2012 U.S. News Tax Rankings
Here are the new 2012 U.S. News Tax Rankings, along with last year’s rankings. The big changes from 2011 are (1) Florida moving ahead of Georgetown at #2, and (2) the number of schools without tax LL.M. programs moving up in the rankings (10) and the number of schools with tax LL.M. programs moving down (6): 2012
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The 18 Most-Cited Tax Faculty
Brian Leiter (Chicago) has finalized his ranking of the Highest Impact Faculty in 13 Areas of Specialization, including tax, as measured by citations during the past five years (Jan. 1, 2005 – Jan. 15, 2010): Rank Tax Prof Citations Age 1 Michael Graetz (Yale) 370 66 2 Daniel Shaviro (NYU) 310 53 3 David Weisbach (Chicago) 300 47 4
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U.S. News Tax Rankings, 2008-2011
Following up on yesterday’s post, New 2011 U.S. News Tax Rankings: here are the overall and graduate tax rankings over the past four years: Overall Tax Rankings (2008-2011): Ave. Rank Tax Program 2011 Rank 2010 Rank 2009 Rank 2008 Rank 1.00 NYU 1 1 1 1 2.25 Florida 3 2 2 2 2.50 Georgetown 2
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New 2011 U.S. News Tax Rankings
Here are the new 2011 U.S. News Tax Rankings, along with last year’s rankings: 2011 Rank Tax Program 2010 Rank 1 NYU 1 2 Georgetown 2 3 Florida 3 4 Northwestern 4 5 Miami 6 6 Boston University 6 6 San Diego 11 8 Harvard 5 9 Loyola-L.A. 16 10 Virginia 11 11 UCLA 6 12 Denver
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Gender, Race, and Age in SSRN Download Rankings
In our article, Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. 83 (2006), Bernie Black and I noted that one of the advantages of SSRN download counts over the other faculty rankings measures (citation counts, publication counts, and reputation surveys) is that SSRN downloads favor younger scholars at improving law schools while the other
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SSRN Tax Faculty Rankings
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 8/19/09): All-Time Downloads Recent Downloads 1 Michigan 26,128 Michigan 6777 2 Harvard 23,955 Illinois 4366 3 Illinois 15,724 UC-Davis 3976 4 Pennsylvania 14,560 Harvard 3285 5
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New 2010 U.S. News Tax Rankings
The new 2010 U.S. News Law School Tax Rankings were released today: 1. NYU (#1 last year) 2. Florida (#2) 2. Georgetown (#3) 4. Northwestern (#4) 5. Harvard (#6) 6. Boston University (#8) 6. Miami (#6) 6. UCLA (#5) 9. Michigan (#10) 10. Stanford (#13) 11. San Diego (#16) 11. Virginia (#9) 13. Columbia (#19) 13. Texas (#10) 15. Chicago (#17)
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Early Release of 2010 U.S. News Tax Rankings
Although the 2010 U.S. News Law School Tax Rankings will not be released until Thursday, April 23, the Top 10 list appearing in the magazine has been published on the Internet. Perhaps the biggest development is Georgetown moving up to #2 (tied with Florida): 1. NYU (#1 last year) 2. Florida (#2) 2. Georgetown (#3)
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SSRN Tax Faculty Rankings
Theodore P. Seto (Loyola-L.A.) has updated his rankings of the Top 25 U.S. Law School Tax Faculties, as measured by the number of SSRN downloads (through 9/12/08) [click on chart to enlarge]: For purpose of Ted’s analysis, a tax professor is initially defined as any law professor at a U.S. law school (1)
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SSRN Tax Faculty Rankings
Theodore P. Seto (Loyola-L.A.) has updated his monthly rankings of the Top 25 U.S. Law School Tax Faculties, as measured by the number of SSRN downloads (through 12/6/07) [click on chart to enlarge]: For purpose of Ted’s analysis, a tax professor is initially defined as any law professor at a U.S. law school (1) self-identifying
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SSRN Tax Faculty Rankings
Theodore P. Seto (Loyola-L.A.) has updated his monthly rankings of the Top 25 U.S. Law School Tax Faculties, as measured by the number of SSRN downloads (through 8/1/07): For purpose of Ted’s analysis, a tax professor is initially defined as any law professor at a U.S. law school (1) self-identifying with one of