Empirical Legal Scholarship Rankings

Tracey George 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)). (Cross-posted on TaxProf.)