SSRN Graduate Tax Faculty Rankings

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 8/19/09):

		All-Time Downloads		Recent Downloads
1	Michigan	26,128	Michigan	6777
2	Loyola –L.A.	10,839	Loyola –L.A.	2669
3	Boston University	8516	Baltimore	2266
4	Chapman	6341	San Diego	1792
5	NYU	6000	Chapman	1746
6	Florida	5518	Florida	1644
7	Baltimore	5164	Boston University	1467
8	San Diego	3660	Northwestern	1297
9	Northwestern	2313	NYU	1061
10	Alabama	2171	Houston	737
11	Georgetown	2148	Loyola-Chicago	663
12	Houston	2046	Wayne State	599
13	New York	1986	Washington-St. Louis	496
14	Wayne State	1720	Georgetown	417
15	Loyola-Chicago	1676	Villanova	362

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).