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	Colorado	13,418	Chicago	2708
6	Chicago	11,882	Loyola-L.A.	2669
7	USC	10,970	Pennsylvania	2381
8	Loyola-L.A.	10,839	Colorado	2377
9	UCLA	10,817	Washburn	2322
10	UC-Davis	9474	Baltimore	2266
11	Columbia	8653	Florida State	2126
12	Boston University	8516	UCLA	1997
13	Florida State	8501	USC	1939
14	Cincinnati	7711	Connecticut	1800
15	Chapman	6341	San Diego	1792
16	Stanford	6247	Chapman	1746
17	NYU	6000	Florida	1644
18	Florida	5518	Pace	1637
19	Washburn	5392	Columbia	1468
20	Baltimore	5164	Boston University	1467
21	Indiana-Bloomington	5012	Case Western	1372
22	Boston College	4638	Notre Dame	1346
23	Notre Dame	4608	Northwestern	1297
24	UC-Berkeley	4463	Texas Tech	1249
25	George Mason	4455	UC-Berkeley	1190

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).