SSRN Graduate Tax Faculty Rankings

Updated Sept. 29, 2011:  Theodore P. Seto (Loyola-L.A.) has updated his ranking of the Top 15 Graduate 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.

		All-Time Downloads		Recent Downloads
1	Michigan	40,754	Michigan	7353
2	Loyola –L.A.	16,417	Florida	4221
3	Florida	13,785	Loyola-L.A.	3423
4	NYU	12,801	NYU	2639
5	Chapman	11,290	Chapman	2151
6	Boston Univ.	10,856	Baltimore	1605
7	Baltimore	8882	San Diego	1431
8	San Diego	6406	Boston Univ.	1405
9	Georgetown	4792	Houston	1217
10	Houston	4011	Loyola-Chicago	827
11	Loyola-Chicago	3615	Northwestern	597
12	Northwestern	3172	Georgetown	542
13	Wayne State	2678	Washington U.	491
14	DePaul	2601	DePaul	488
15	Alabama	2393	Wayne State	429

F or 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).