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February 7, 2008
The Top 100 Law Reviews
The cover story of the February 2008 National Jurist is 100 Best Law Reviews, with this teaser:
With more than 1,100 journals in existence, critics argue that the overall quality of legal scholarship is suffering. Find out which law reviews are influencing legal discourse, and which are nothing more than glorified student service.
The article discusses the two law review rankings previously blogged here:
- Robert M. Jarvis (Nova) & Phyllis Coleman (Nova), Ranking Law Reviews by Author Prominence—Ten Years Later, 99 Law Library J. 573 (2007).
- Washington & Lee's Law Review Rankings.
The article reprints the list of the Top 100 Law Reviews under the Washington & Lee Combined-Score ranking, which is based on citations to articles published in the past eight years (2000-2007) in these three categories:
- Impact Factor (citations/number of articles published)
- Citations in Law Reviews
- Citations in Cases (federal and state courts)
Here are the Top 100 Law Reviews, with their normalized scores::
| 1 | Harvard Law Review | 100 | ||
| 1 | Yale Law Journal | 100 | ||
| 3 | Columbia Law Review | 89.6 | ||
| 4 | California Law Review | 80.0 | ||
| 5 | University of Pennsylvania Law Review | 75.2 | ||
| 6 | New York University Law Review | 74.9 | ||
| 7 | Stanford Law Review | 73.7 | ||
| 8 | Virginia Law Review | 72.7 | ||
| 9 | Cornell Law Review | 70.1 | ||
| 10 | UCLA Law Review | 63.8 | ||
| 11 | University of Chicago Law Review | 62.3 | ||
| 12 | Michigan Law Review | 61.9 | ||
| 12 | Texas Law Review | 61.9 | ||
| 14 | Northwestern University Law Review | 59.6 | ||
| 15 | Georgetown Law Journal | 57.7 | ||
| 16 | Minnesota Law Review | 55.7 | ||
| 17 | Duke Law Journal | 51.8 | ||
| 18 | Fordham Law Review | 50.3 | ||
| 19 | Vanderbilt Law Review | 50.1 | ||
| 20 | William and Mary Law Review | 49.6 | ||
| 21 | Southern California Law Review | 45.8 | ||
| 22 | Supreme Court Review | 44.8 | ||
| 23 | Iowa Law Review | 42.3 | ||
| 24 | North Carolina Law Review | 42.2 | ||
| 25 | American Journal of International Law | 42.1 | ||
| 26 | Notre Dame Law Review | 40.7 | ||
| 27 | Boston University Law Review | 38.4 | ||
| 28 | Emory Law Journal | 37.8 | ||
| 29 | University of Illinois Law Review | 37.1 | ||
| 30 | Boston College Law Review | 36.8 | ||
| 30 | U.C. Davis Law Review | 36.8 | ||
| 32 | Indiana Law Journal | 35.7 | ||
| 32 | Wisconsin Law Review | 35.7 | ||
| 34 | Journal of Legal Studies | 35.5 | ||
| 35 | Hastings Law Journal | 35.4 | ||
| 36 | Ohio State Law Journal | 34.4 | ||
| 37 | Virginia Journal of International Law | 34.1 | ||
| 38 | University of Colorado Law Review | 33.3 | ||
| 39 | Berkeley Technology Law Journal | 33.2 | ||
| 40 | Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Revie | 32.5 | ||
| 41 | Law and Contemporary Problems | 32.3 | ||
| 42 | Cardozo Law Review | 32.1 | ||
| 42 | Harvard Journal of Law & Technology | 32.1 | ||
| 42 | Journal of Empirical Legal Studies | 32.1 | ||
| 45 | Connecticut Law Review | 31.1 | ||
| 46 | Wake Forest Law Review | 30.9 | ||
| 47 | American University Law Review | 30.3 | ||
| 48 | Business Lawyer | 30.1 | ||
| 49 | Florida Law Review | 30.0 | ||
| 50 | Harvard International Law Journal | 29.7 | ||
| 51 | Arizona Law Review | 29.5 | ||
| 51 | Washington and Lee Law Review | 29.5 | ||
| 53 | Houston Law Review | 29.3 | ||
| 54 | Harvard Journal on Legislation | 29.2 | ||
| 55 | Washington University Law Review | 28.7 | ||
| 56 | Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy | 27.9 | ||
| 57 | American Journal of Comparative Law | 27.6 | ||
| 58 | DePaul Law Review | 27.5 | ||
| 58 | Univ. Pennsylvania J. of Constitutional Law | 27.5 | ||
| 60 | University of Cincinnati Law Review | 27.3 | ||
| 61 | Yale Journal on Regulation | 27.2 | ||
| 62 | American Criminal Law Review | 26.6 | ||
| 62 | Chicago-Kent Law Review | 26.6 | ||
| 64 | Yale Law & Policy Review | 26.3 | ||
| 65 | Georgia Law Review | 25.6 | ||
| 66 | American Business Law Journal | 25.4 | ||
| 67 | Alabama Law Review | 25.2 | ||
| 67 | Hofstra Law Review | 25.2 | ||
| 69 | Oregon Law Review | 25.0 | ||
| 69 | Villanova Law Review | 25.0 | ||
| 71 | Tulane Law Review | 24.5 | ||
| 72 | Columbia Journal of Transnational Law | 24.1 | ||
| 73 | University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform | 24.0 | ||
| 74 | Brooklyn Law Review | 23.9 | ||
| 75 | Washington Law Review | 23.6 | ||
| 76 | Fordham Urban Law Journal | 23.4 | ||
| 76 | Harvard Environmental Law Review | 23.4 | ||
| 78 | Chicago Journal of International Law | 23.2 | ||
| 79 | Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics | 22.9 | ||
| 80 | Michigan Telecommunications & Tech. L. Rev | 22.5 | ||
| 80 | San Diego Law Review | 22.5 | ||
| 82 | Michigan Journal of International Law | 22.4 | ||
| 83 | Akron Law Review | 22.2 | ||
| 84 | American University International Law Review | 22.1 | ||
| 85 | Arizona State Law Journal | 22.0 | ||
| 86 | Florida State University Law Review | 21.6 | ||
| 87 | Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review | 21.4 | ||
| 88 | SMU Law Review | 21.3 | ||
| 88 | Yale Journal of International Law | 21.3 | ||
| 90 | Lewis & Clark Law Review | 21.2 | ||
| 91 | George Washington Law Review | 21.1 | ||
| 91 | Indiana Law Review | 21.1 | ||
| 93 | American Journal of Law & Medicine | 20.9 | ||
| 93 | Brigham Young University Law Review | 20.9 | ||
| 95 | Harvard Negotiation Law Review | 20.8 | ||
| 96 | Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy | 20.4 | ||
| 96 | Supreme Court Economic Review | 20.4 | ||
| 98 | Columbia Journal of Environmental Law | 20.3 | ||
| 99 | Buffalo Law Review | 20.2 | ||
| 100 | South Carolina Law Review | 20.0 |
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regarding case citations, i wonder how many citations to top law reviews are to articles that have been published in the last decade or so? HLR dominates on the case cite front (289 case cites between 2000-2007), but I can't imagine that much of what has been recently published in e.g., the HLR is useful.
on the other hand, at least from a tax perspective, there are numerous useful articles from the early and mid 1900s in the HLR, etc.,, and it looks like even top law reviews used to publish articles that were relevant to someone other than their authors.
my (pure) guess is that if the rankings were done according to # of court citations to articles that were published by a law review in the last 10 years, the rankings would look different.
Posted by: andy | Feb 7, 2008 11:45:01 AM
Andy, that's exactly what they are, only they're limited to the last 8 years, vice 10.
Posted by: Skaddenite | Feb 7, 2008 12:28:56 PM
Skaddenite (!) --
i somehow missed the explicit reference to "citations to articles published in the past eight years (2000-2007)." whoops.
Posted by: andy | Feb 7, 2008 4:19:39 PM
