SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  Here is the new list (through March 1, 2021) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	198,030	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	8,214
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	122,383	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	5,369
3	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	119,893	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	4,944
4	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	118,706	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	3,942
5	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	118,354	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	3,895
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	111,563	Diane Ring (Boston College)	3,574
7	David Kamin (NYU)	107,922	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	3,571
8	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	105,744	Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College)	3,441
9	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	102,664	Kim Clausing (UCLA)	3,412
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	101,711	David Kamin (NYU)	3,407
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	100,526	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	2,994
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	45,080	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	2,943
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	43,658	Richard Ainsworth (Boston Univ.)	2,601
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	38,032	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	2,208
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	34,660	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	2,155
16	Richard Ainsworth (Boston Univ.)	31,828	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	2,144
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	27,521	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	2,001
18	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	26,783	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	1,841
19	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	26,782	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,831
20	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	25,931	Yariv Brauner (Florida)	1,699
21	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	25,909	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	1,557
22	Jim Hines (Michigan)	25,698	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	1,350
23	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	24,917	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	1,273
24	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	24,353	Michael Simkovic (USC)	1,232
25	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	24,290	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	1,194

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  Here is the new list (through February 1, 2021) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	197,322	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	7,965
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	122,147	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	5,252
3	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	119,581	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	4,876
4	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	118,393	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	3,851
5	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	118,044	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	3,790
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	111,288	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	3,545
7	David Kamin (NYU)	107,638	Diane Ring (Boston College)	3,497
8	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	105,642	Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College)	3,355
9	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	102,580	David Kamin (NYU)	3,327
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	101,563	Kim Clausing (UCLA)	3,146
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	100,389	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	2,948
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	45,201	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	2,584
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	43,384	Richard Ainsworth (Boston Univ.)	2,489
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	37,902	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	2,122
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	34,404	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	2,016
16	Richard Ainsworth (Boston Univ.)	31,519	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	2,016
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	27,429	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	1,880
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	26,667	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	1,796
19	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	26,387	Yariv Brauner (Florida)	1,679
20	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	25,736	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,673
21	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	25,672	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	1,530
22	Jim Hines (Michigan)	25,619	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	1,349
23	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	24,762	Michael Simkovic (USC)	1,261
24	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	24,265	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	1,260
25	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	24,250	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	1,164

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  Here is the new list (through January 1, 2021) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	195,466	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	7,827
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	121,968	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	5,074
3	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	119,107	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	4,706
4	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	118,031	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	3,611
5	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	117,836	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	3,545
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	111,088	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	3,466
7	David Kamin (NYU)	107,263	Diane Ring (Boston College)	3,440
8	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	105,527	Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College)	3,301
9	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	102,498	David Kamin (NYU)	3,162
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	101,423	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	2,899
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	100,277	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	2,505
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	45,079	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	2,406
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	43,066	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	2,115
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	37,735	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	2,096
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	34,219	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	1,839
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	31,273	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	1,815
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	27,362	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	1,703
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	26,584	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,582
19	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	25,950	Yariv Brauner (Florida)	1,557
20	Jim Hines (Michigan)	25,522	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	1,458
21	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	25,518	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	1,335
22	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	25,352	Michael Simkovic (USC)	1,270
23	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	24,709	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	1,257
24	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	24,256	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	1,159
25	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	24,096	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	1,039

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The 10 Most Popular Tax Articles Of 2020

1. 2791 Downloads:  Hiba Hafiz, Shu-Yi Oei, Diane Ring & Natalya Shnitser (Boston College), Regulating In A Pandemic: Evaluating Economic And Financial Policy Responses To The Coronavirus Crisis (reviewed by Michelle Layser (Illinois))
2. 1,588 Downloads:  Lily Batchelder (NYU) & David Kamin (NYU), Taxing the Rich: Issues and Options
3. 1,339 Downloads:  Ruth Mason (Virginia), The Transformation of International Tax, 114 Am. J. Int'l L. 353 (2020) (reviewed by Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College); symposium responses by Wolfgang Alschner (Ottawa), Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), Wei Cui (British Columbia), Lilian Faulhaber (Georgetown), and Alan Sykes (Stanford))
4. 822 Downloads:  John Richardson, Laura Snyder & Karen Alpert (Queensland), A Simple Regulatory Fix for Citizenship Taxation, 169 Tax Notes Fed. 275 (Oct. 12, 2020)
5. 709 Downloads:  Ruth Mason (Virginia) & Leopoldo Parada (Leeds), The Legality of Digital Taxes in Europe, 40 Va. Tax Rev. ___ (2020)
6. 681 Downloads:  Wei Cui (British Columbia), The Digital Services Tax: A Conceptual Defense, 73 Tax L. Reb. 69 (2019) (reviewed by Young Ran (Christine) Kim (Utah) and Kim Brooks (Dalhousie)) 
7. 673 Downloads:    Kimberly Clausing (UCLA), Emmanuel Saez (UC-Berkely) & Gabriel Zucman (UC-Berkeley), Ending Corporate Tax Avoidance and Tax Competition: A Plan to Collect the Tax Deficit of Multinationals
8. 669 Downloads:  Kimberly Clausing (UCLA), Profit Shifting Before and After the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
9. 528 Downloads:  Jennifer Blouin (Penn) & Leslie Robinson (Dartmouth), Double Counting Accounting: How Much Profit of Multinational Enterprises Is Really in Tax Havens?
10. 521 Downloads:  Stephen Daly (King's College London) & Ruth Mason (Virginia), State Aid: The General Court Decision in Apple (reviewed by Young Ran (Christine) Kim (Utah))

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  Here is the new list (through December 1, 2020) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	194,887	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	7,703
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	121,838	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	4,901
3	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	118,829	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	4,561
4	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	117,744	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	3,825
5	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	117,709	David Kamin (NYU)	3,399
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	110,971	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	3,395
7	David Kamin (NYU)	106,965	Diane Ring (Boston College)	3,335
8	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	105,449	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	3,312
9	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	102,444	Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College)	3,213
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	101,351	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	2,849
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	100,202	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	2,413
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	44,965	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	2,392
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	42,797	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	2,139
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	37,639	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	2,139
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	34,026	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	1,838
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	31,102	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	1,823
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	27,305	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	1,699
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	26,517	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,505
19	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	25,565	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	1,459
20	Jim Hines (Michigan)	25,434	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	1,345
21	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	25,400	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	1,255
22	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	25,216	Michael Simkovic (USC)	1,250
23	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	24,667	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	1,230
24	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	24,248	Yariv Brauner (Florida)	1,158
25	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	24,015	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	1,097

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  Here is the new list (through November 1, 2020) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	194,258	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	7,560
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	121,635	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	4,760
3	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	118,457	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	4,417
4	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	117,514	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	3,993
5	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	117,427	David Kamin (NYU)	3,615
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	110,793	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	3,367
7	David Kamin (NYU)	106,651	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	3,236
8	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	105,329	Diane Ring (Boston College)	3,231
9	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	102,339	Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College)	3,125
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	101,244	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	2,830
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	100,096	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	2,364
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	44,842	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	2,225
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	42,482	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	2,168
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	37,528	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	2,139
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	33,860	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	1,846
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	30,898	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	1,811
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	27,243	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	1,788
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	26,458	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,530
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	25,373	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	1,444
20	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	25,296	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	1,357
21	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	25,233	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	1,296
22	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	25,068	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	1,277
23	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	24,621	Michael Simkovic (USC)	1,236
24	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	24,234	Yariv Brauner (Florida)	1,163
25	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	23,941	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	1,144

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  Here is the new list (through October 1, 2020) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	193,644	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	7,672
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	121,471	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	4,492
3	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	118,169	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	4,194
4	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	117,337	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	4,050
5	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	117,219	David Kamin (NYU)	3,780
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	110,644	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	3,475
7	David Kamin (NYU)	106,364	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	3,252
8	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	105,240	Diane Ring (Boston College)	3,139
9	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	102,274	Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College)	3,046
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	101,172	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	2,782
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	100,006	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	2,420
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	44,741	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	2,246
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	42,038	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	2,207
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	37,416	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	2,152
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	33,734	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	1,846
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	30,711	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	1,840
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	27,177	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	1,833
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	26,388	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,553
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	25,307	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	1,480
20	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	25,161	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	1,404
21	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	24,987	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	1,359
22	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	24,876	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	1,341
23	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	24,569	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	1,310
24	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	24,217	Michael Simkovic (USC)	1,264
25	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	23,838	Yariv Brauner (Florida)	1,197

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  Here is the new list (through September 1, 2020) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	193,145	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	7,710
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	121,322	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	5,852
3	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	117,881	David Kamin (NYU)	5,449
4	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	117,213	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	4,390
5	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	117,026	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	4,029
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	110,510	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	3,826
7	David Kamin (NYU)	106,112	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	3,279
8	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	105,156	Diane Ring (Boston College)	3,029
9	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	102,222	Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College)	2,934
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	101,100	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	2,753
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	99,925	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	2,431
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	44,685	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	2,380
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	41,770	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	2,308
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	37,327	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	2,205
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	33,605	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	1,877
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	30,545	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	1,833
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	27,098	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	1,785
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	26,324	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,565
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	25,261	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	1,545
20	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	25,016	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	1,500
21	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	24,785	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	1,438
22	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	24,684	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	1,407
23	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	24,496	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	1,343
24	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	24,206	Michael Simkovic (USC)	1,315
25	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,805	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	1,223

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  Here is the new list (through August 1, 2020) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	192,590	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	7,602
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	121,164	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	5,720
3	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	117,631	David Kamin (NYU)	5,377
4	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	117,052	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	4,357
5	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	116,870	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	3,826
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	110,355	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	3,824
7	David Kamin (NYU)	105,900	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	3,210
8	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	105,059	Diane Ring (Boston College)	2,883
9	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	102,169	Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College)	2,792
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	101,036	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	2,706
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	99,845	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	2,477
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	44,602	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	2,383
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	41,552	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	2,369
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	37,159	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	1,877
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	33,501	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	1,842
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	30,392	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	1,821
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	27,045	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	1,809
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	26,262	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	1,659
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	25,237	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,570
20	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	24,911	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	1,476
21	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	24,544	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	1,443
22	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	24,511	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	1,443
23	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	24,439	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	1,372
24	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	24,198	Michael Simkovic (USC)	1,370
25	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,781	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	1,344

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  Here is the new list (through July 1, 2020) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	191,980	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	7,554
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	120,857	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	5,173
3	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	116,974	David Kamin (NYU)	4,892
4	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	116,895	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	4,135
5	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	116,579	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	3,836
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	110,214	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	3,485
7	David Kamin (NYU)	105,294	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	3,183
8	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	104,927	Diane Ring (Boston College)	2,773
9	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	102,094	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	2,696
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	100,922	Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College)	2,680
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	99,709	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	2,598
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	44,553	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	2,446
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	41,163	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	2,189
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	37,011	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	1,977
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	33,399	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	1,909
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	30,210	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	1,867
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	26,933	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	1,728
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	26,196	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	1,658
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	25,209	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,607
20	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	24,765	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	1,442
21	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	24,378	Michael Simkovic (USC)	1,425
22	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	24,373	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	1,424
23	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	24,271	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	1,420
24	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	24,186	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	1,418
25	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,768	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	1,311

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SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  Here is the new list (through June 1, 2020) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	191,246	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	7,362
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	120,723	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	4,985
3	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	116,722	David Kamin (NYU)	4,851
4	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	116,660	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	3,873
5	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	116,321	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	3,044
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	110,035	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	2,828
7	David Kamin (NYU)	105,138	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	2,676
8	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	104,851	Diane Ring (Boston College)	2,520
9	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	102,023	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	2,435
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	100,855	Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College)	2,433
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	99,638	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	2,381
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	44,460	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	2,226
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	38,979	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	2,098
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	36,860	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	1,941
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	33,290	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	1,874
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	30,016	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	1,865
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	26,781	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	1,778
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	26,149	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,718
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	25,156	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	1,591
20	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	24,532	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	1,475
21	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	24,316	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	1,461
22	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	24,226	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	1,459
23	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	24,175	Michael Simkovic (USC)	1,426
24	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	23,780	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	1,387
25	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,749	Yariv Brauner (Florida)	1,329

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  Here is the new list (through May 1, 2020) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	190,140	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	6,829
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	120,560	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	5,004
3	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	116,568	David Kamin (NYU)	4,881
4	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	116,474	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	3,646
5	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	115,699	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	2,820
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	109,884	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	2,767
7	David Kamin (NYU)	104,961	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	2,540
8	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	104,719	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	2,311
9	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	101,931	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	2,226
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	100,784	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	2,215
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	99,551	Diane Ring (Boston College)	2,042
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	44,333	Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College)	1,976
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	38,635	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	1,970
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	36,730	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	1,960
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	33,055	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	1,942
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	29,682	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	1,887
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	26,725	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	1,850
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	26,091	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,682
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	25,068	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	1,599
20	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	24,384	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	1,583
21	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	24,248	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	1,525
22	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	24,151	Yariv Brauner (Florida)	1,512
23	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	24,091	Michael Simkovic (USC)	1,396
24	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,701	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	1,353
25	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	23,528	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	1,295

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  Here is the new list (through April 1, 2020) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	189,283	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	6,687
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	120,309	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	5,044
3	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	116,324	David Kamin (NYU)	4,963
4	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	116,191	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	3,871
5	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	115,360	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	3,159
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	109,664	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	2,882
7	David Kamin (NYU)	104,710	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	2,426
8	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	104,501	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	2,204
9	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	101,799	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	2,134
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	100,652	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	2,031
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	99,411	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	1,937
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	44,192	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	1,936
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	38,444	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	1,935
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	36,574	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	1,917
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	32,924	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	1,814
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	29,448	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,796
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	26,645	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	1,788
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	26,034	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	1,738
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	24,976	Yariv Brauner (Florida)	1,641
20	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	24,195	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	1,608
21	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	24,159	Michael Simkovic (USC)	1,460
22	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	24,143	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	1,314
23	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	23,944	Diane Ring (Boston College)	1,235
24	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,677	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	1,213
25	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	23,226	Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College)	1,190

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  Here is the new list (through March 2, 2020) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	188,632	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	6,685
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	120,177	David Kamin (NYU)	5,140
3	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	116,200	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	5,062
4	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	115,955	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	4,239
5	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	115,111	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	3,242
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	109,563	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	3,122
7	David Kamin (NYU)	104,519	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	2,604
8	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	104,395	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	2,406
9	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	101,715	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	2,284
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	100,562	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	2,214
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	99,333	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	2,001
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	44,042	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	1,996
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	38,290	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	1,996
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	36,475	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	1,947
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	32,829	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,890
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	29,228	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	1,885
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	26,574	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	1,847
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	25,980	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	1,793
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	24,912	Yariv Brauner (Florida)	1,788
20	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	24,117	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	1,757
21	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	24,100	Michael Simkovic (USC)	1,636
22	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	24,070	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	1,323
23	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	23,785	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	1,282
24	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,652	Leandra Lederman (Indiana Bloom.)	1,207
25	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	23,022	Kyle Rozema (Washington U.)	1,152

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  Here is the new list (through February 1, 2020) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	188,030	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	6,897
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	120,013	David Kamin (NYU)	5,254
3	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	116,012	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	5,186
4	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	115,709	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	4,481
5	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	114,832	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	3,319
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	109,398	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	3,166
7	David Kamin (NYU)	104,292	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	2,845
8	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	104,281	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	2,639
9	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	101,573	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	2,526
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	100,444	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	2,301
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	99,212	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	2,260
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	43,940	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	2,111
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	38,130	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	2,022
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	36,366	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	2,013
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	32,727	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	1,966
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	29,024	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	1,951
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	26,372	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	1,898
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	25,931	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,877
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	24,873	Michael Simkovic (USC)	1,855
20	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	24,106	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	1,818
21	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	23,960	Yariv Brauner (Florida)	1,748
22	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	23,935	Kyle Rozema (Washington U.)	1,541
23	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	23,650	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	1,324
24	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,607	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	1,310
25	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	22,928	Leandra Lederman (Indiana Bloom.)	1,246

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  Here is the new list (through January 5, 2020) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	187,671	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	7,341
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	119,866	David Kamin (NYU)	5,518
3	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	115,750	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	5,438
4	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	115,511	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	4,860
5	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	114,566	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	3,524
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	109,283	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	3,263
7	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	104,201	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	3,136
8	David Kamin (NYU)	104,115	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	2,978
9	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	101,471	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	2,968
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	100,364	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	2,846
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	99,126	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	2,454
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	43,817	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	2,448
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	38,004	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	2,418
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	36,287	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	2,397
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	32,642	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	2,091
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	28,873	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	2,034
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	26,310	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	1,996
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	25,879	Michael Simkovic (USC)	1,957
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	24,837	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,925
20	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	24,098	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	1,811
21	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	23,921	Kyle Rozema (Washington U.)	1,790
22	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	23,828	Yariv Brauner (Florida)	1,712
23	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,585	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	1,440
24	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	23,524	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	1,357
25	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	22,849	Leandra Lederman (Indiana Bloom.)	1,214

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  This ranking includes downloads from two 30- and 35-page papers by 12 tax professors on the 2017 tax legislation that garnered a lot of media attention (including the New York Times and Washington Post) and generated a massive amount of downloads (the papers are the most downloaded tax papers of all-time by over 200%).  See Brian Leiter (Chicago), 11 Tax Profs Blow Up The SSRN Download Rankings. (For some reason, Mitchell Kane (NYU) — the twelfth academic co-author of the two papers — is not included in the SSRN download rankings (although the downloads are included on his individual author page)).  Here is the new list (through December 1, 2019) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	187,160	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	8,109
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	119,716	David Kamin (NYU)	5,766
3	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	115,552	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	5,753
4	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	114,993	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	5,600
5	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	114,323	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	4,260
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	109,145	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	4,084
7	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	104,102	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	3,784
8	David Kamin (NYU)	103,554	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	3,632
9	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	101,342	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	3,544
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	100,266	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	3,186
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	98,966	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	3,180
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	43,708	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	3,056
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	37,884	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	2,472
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	36,173	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	2,399
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	32,498	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	2,167
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	28,689	Michael Simkovic (USC)	2,103
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	26,261	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	1,998
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	25,827	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	1,941
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	24,786	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,936
20	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	24,093	Kyle Rozema (Chicago)	1,868
21	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	23,853	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	1,847
22	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,556	Yariv Brauner (Florida)	1,675
23	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	23,693	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	1,316
24	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	23,365	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	1,304
25	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	22,751	George Yin (Virginia)	1,233

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  This ranking includes downloads from two 30- and 35-page papers by 12 tax professors on the new tax legislation that garnered a lot of media attention (including the New York Times and Washington Post) and generated a massive amount of downloads (the papers are the most downloaded tax papers of all-time by over 200%).  See Brian Leiter (Chicago), 11 Tax Profs Blow Up The SSRN Download Rankings. (For some reason, Mitchell Kane (NYU) — the twelfth academic co-author of the two papers — is not included in the SSRN download rankings (although the downloads are included on his individual author page)).  Here is the new list (through October 1, 2019) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	186,021	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	10,050
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	119,255	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	7,297
3	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	115,157	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	6,811
4	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	114,011	David Kamin (NYU)	6,793
5	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	113,766	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	5,877
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	108,823	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	5,867
7	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	103,845	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	5,500
8	David Kamin (NYU)	102,620	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	5,285
9	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	100,975	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	5,113
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	100,034	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	4,915
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	98,656	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	4,835
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	43,490	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	2,809
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	37,563	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	2,549
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	35,946	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	2,442
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	35,946	Michael Simkovic (USC)	2,403
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	28,331	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	2,260
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	26,096	Kyle Rozema (Chicago)	2,147
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	25,709	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	2,098
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	24,674	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	2,028
20	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	24,076	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,906
21	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	23,733	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	1,866
22	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,494	Yariv Brauner (Florida)	1,680
23	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	23,327	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	1,354
24	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	23,069	George Yin (Virginia)	1,296
25	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	22,556	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	1,192

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  This ranking includes downloads from two 30- and 35-page papers by 12 tax professors on the new tax legislation that garnered a lot of media attention (including the New York Times and Washington Post) and generated a massive amount of downloads (the papers are the most downloaded tax papers of all-time by over 200%).  See Brian Leiter (Chicago), 11 Tax Profs Blow Up The SSRN Download Rankings. (For some reason, Mitchell Kane (NYU) — the twelfth academic co-author of the two papers — is not included in the SSRN download rankings (although the downloads are included on his individual author page)).  Here is the new list (through September 1, 2019) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	185,453	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	11,720
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	118,935	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	8,581
3	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	114,894	David Gamage (Indiana-Bloom.)	7,276
4	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	112,023	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	7,206
5	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	108,628	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	6,984
6	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	103,711	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	6,574
7	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	100,671	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	6,296
8	David Kamin (NYU)	100,657	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	6,292
9	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	99,872	David Kamin (NYU)	6,209
10	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	98,509	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	6,109
11	Michael Simkovic (USC)	43,366	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	6,068
12	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	37,364	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	2,706
13	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	35,825	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	2,666
14	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	32,038	Michael Simkovic (USC)	2,571
15	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	28,101	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	2,523
16	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	26,013	Kyle Rozema (Chicago)	2,352
17	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	25,612	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	2,326
18	Jim Hines (Michigan)	24,617	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	2,145
19	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	24,063	Kirk Stark (UCLA)	2,140
20	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	23,655	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	2,095
21	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,475	Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis)	2,070
22	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	23,180	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,902
23	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	22,893	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	1,863
24	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	22,428	Yariv Brauner (Florida)	1,645
25	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	8,581	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	1,362

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Tax Prof Twitter Rankings

Following up on yesterday's post, Tax Prof Twitter Census (2019-20 Edition) (Updated): here are the 25 Tax Profs with the largest number of Twitter followers: 

1	@lilybatch (Lily Batchelder, NYU)	12,300
2	@andygrewal (Andy Grewal, Iowa)	7075
3	@JudithFreedman (Judith Freedman, Oxford)	5893
4	@SoCalTaxProf (Paul Caron, Pepperdine)	5449
5	@davidckamin (David Kamin, NYU)	5254
6	@DanielJHemel (Daniel Hemel, Chicago)	5239
7	@delaFeriaR (Rita de la Feria, Leeds)	3696
8	@EOTaxProf (Philip Hackney, Pittsburgh)	3318
9	@AusTaxProf (Miranda Stewart, Melbourne)	2784
10	@kbrooks_taxlaw (Kim Brooks, Dalhousie)	2553
11	@profchristians (Allison Christians, McGill)	2550
12	@vicfleischer (Victor Fleischer, UC-Irvine)	2523
13	@davidsgamage (David Gamage, Indiana-Maurer)	2508
14	@DanielShaviro (Daniel Shaviro, NYU)	2487
15	@ProfBank (Steven Bank, UCLA)	2200
16	@smbrnsn (Sam Brunson, Loyola-Chicago)	2170
17	@deathntaxesprof (Goldburn Maynard, Louisville)	1990
18	@profbcrawford (Bridget Crawford, Pace)	1950
19	@williambyrnes (William Byrnes, Texas A&M)	1950
20	@narfnampil (Francine Lipman, UNLV)	1855
21	@Omri_Marian (Omri Marian, UC-Irvine)	1834
22	@legalh4ck3r (Steve Black, Texas Tech)	1821
23	@DorothyABrown (Dorothy Brown, Emory)	1762
24	@Leandra2848 (Leandra Lederman, Indiana-Bloomington)	1414
25	@rebeccakysar (Rebecca Kysar, Fordham)	1241

SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  This ranking includes downloads from two 30- and 35-page papers by 12 tax professors on the new tax legislation that garnered a lot of media attention (including the New York Times and Washington Post) and generated a massive amount of downloads (the papers are the most downloaded tax papers of all-time by over 200%).  See Brian Leiter (Chicago), 11 Tax Profs Blow Up The SSRN Download Rankings. (For some reason, Mitchell Kane (NYU) — the twelfth academic co-author of the two papers — is not included in the SSRN download rankings (although the downloads are included on his individual author page)).  Here is the new list (through August 1, 2019) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	184,986	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	12,878
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	118,783	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	10,565
3	David Gamage (Indiana-Bl.)	114,647	David Gamage (Indiana-Bl.)	8,640
4	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	113,015	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	8,555
5	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	111,898	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	8,305
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	108,497	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	7,627
7	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	103,607	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	7,290
8	David Kamin (NYU)	100,506	David Kamin (NYU)	7,073
9	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	100,501	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	7,024
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	99,652	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	6,803
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	98,391	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	6,735
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	43,223	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	2,663
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	37,181	Michael Simkovic (USC)	2,650
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	35,672	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	2,591
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	31,925	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	2,495
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	27,900	Kyle Rozema (Chicago)	2,493
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	25,959	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	2,335
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	25,557	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	2,221
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	24,586	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	2,051
20	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	24,043	Jacob Goldin (Stanford)	1,976
21	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	23,574	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,856
22	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,450	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	1,849
23	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	23,022	Joe Bankman (Stanford)	1,716
24	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	22,713	Yariv Brauner (Florida)	1,635
25	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	22,295	George Yin (Virginia)	1,558

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More On The 50 Most-Cited Tax Articles of All Time

Following up on my previous post on Jonathan H. Choi (NYU), The 50 Most-Cited Tax Articles of All Time, 36 Yale J. on Reg.: Notice & Comment (May 11, 2019):

47 authors (40 men, 7 women) wrote the 50 most-cited tax articles, 8 (7 men, 1 woman) more than once:

Author	Frequency
Boris Bittker	4
David Weisbach	4
Joseph Bankman	3
Stanley Surrey	3
Reuven Avi-Yonah	2
Michael Graetz	2
Marjorie Kornhauser	2
Edward Zelinsky	2
Bruce Ackerman	1
Anne Alstott	1
William Andrews	1
Lily Batchelder	1
Walter Blum	1
Paul Caron	1
Marvin Chirelstein	1
Dan Coenen	1
Richard Doernberg	1
Peter Enrich	1
Victor Fleischer	1
Pamela Gann	1
Mark Gergen	1
Fred Goldberg	1
Thomas Griffith	1
Erwin Griswold	1
Daniel Halperin	1
David Hariton	1
Walter Hellerstein	1
Kristin Hickman	1
Harry Kalven	1
Louis Kaplow	1
Mark Kelman	1
Leandra Lederman	1
Fred McChesney	1
Beverly Moran	1
R.A. Musgrave	1
Jacob Nussim	1
Michael O’Hear	1
Peter Orszag	1
Randolph Paul	1
William Plumb	1
Eric Posner	1
David Schizer	1
Steven Shavell	1
Dan Shaviro	1
David Slawson	1
Joseph Sneed	1
William Whitford	1

The authors are from 22 law schools, 12 law schools are represented more than once:

School	Frequency
Harvard	9
Chicago	7
Yale	6
Stanford	5
Columbia	4
Cardozo	2
Emory	2
Georgia	2
Michigan	2
NYU	2
Tulane	2
USC	2
Duke	1
Indiana	1
Marquette	1
Minnesota	1
Northeastern	1
Pepperdine	1
UC-Berkeley	1
UC-Irvine	1
Vanderbilt	1
Wisconsin	1

The 50 most-cited tax articles were published in 21 law reviews (12 law reviews published 2 or more of the articles):

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  This ranking includes downloads from two 30- and 35-page papers by 12 tax professors on the new tax legislation that garnered a lot of media attention (including the New York Times and Washington Post) and generated a massive amount of downloads (the papers are the most downloaded tax papers of all-time by over 200%).  See Brian Leiter (Chicago), 11 Tax Profs Blow Up The SSRN Download Rankings. (For some reason, Mitchell Kane (NYU) — the twelfth academic co-author of the two papers — is not included in the SSRN download rankings (although the downloads are included on his individual author page)).  Here is the new list (through July 1, 2019) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	184,418	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	16,885
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	118,651	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	14,545
3	David Gamage (Indiana-Bl.)	114,176	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	12,097
4	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	112,722	David Gamage (Indiana-Bl.)	11,916
5	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	111,787	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	11,805
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	108,323	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	11,224
7	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	103,496	David Kamin (NYU)	10,780
8	David Kamin (NYU)	100,391	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	10,703
9	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	100,353	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	10,468
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	99,493	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	10,229
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	98,273	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	10,117
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	43,116	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	2,813
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	37,023	Michael Simkovic (USC)	2,788
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	35,564	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	2,558
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	31,720	Kyle Rozema (Chicago)	2,493
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	27,750	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	2,430
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	25,914	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	2,350
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	25,506	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	2,252
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	24,491	Jacob Goldin (Stanford)	2,198
20	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	23,991	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	1,903
21	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	23,498	Joe Bankman (Stanford)	1,864
22	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,438	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	1,856
23	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	22,781	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,777
24	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	22,461	George Yin (Virginia)	1,676
25	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	22,205	Yariv Brauner (Florida)	1,608

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  This ranking includes downloads from two 30- and 35-page papers by 12 tax professors on the new tax legislation that garnered a lot of media attention (including the New York Times and Washington Post) and generated a massive amount of downloads (the papers are the most downloaded tax papers of all-time by over 200%).  See Brian Leiter (Chicago), 11 Tax Profs Blow Up The SSRN Download Rankings. (For some reason, Mitchell Kane (NYU) — the twelfth academic co-author of the two papers — is not included in the SSRN download rankings (although the downloads are included on his individual author page)).  Here is the new list (through June 1, 2019) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	183,904	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	19,128
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	118,494	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	16,752
3	David Gamage (Indiana-Bl.)	114,041	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	13,878
4	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	112,425	David Gamage (Indiana-Bl.)	13,762
5	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	111,676	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	13,545
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	108,155	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	13,026
8	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	103,389	David Kamin (NYU)	12,518
9	David Kamin (NYU)	100,287	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	12,387
7	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	100,244	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	12,171
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	99,397	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	11,944
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	98,164	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	11,848
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	43,028	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	2,946
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	36,866	Michael Simkovic (USC)	2,925
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	35,469	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	2,573
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	31,570	Kyle Rozema (Chicago)	2,444
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	27,625	Bridget Crawford (Pace)	2,368
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	25,840	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	2,366
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	25,452	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	2,327
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	24,386	Jacob Goldin (Stanford)	2,296
20	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	23,982	Joe Bankman (Stanford)	1,971
21	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	23,450	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	1,912
22	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,423	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	1,862
23	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	22,664	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,707
24	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	22,271	Kirk Stark (UC-Davis)	1,667
25	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	22,120	Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis)	1,622

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  This ranking includes downloads from two 30- and 35-page papers by 12 tax professors on the new tax legislation that garnered a lot of media attention (including the New York Times and Washington Post) and generated a massive amount of downloads (the papers are the most downloaded tax papers of all-time by over 200%).  See Brian Leiter (Chicago), 11 Tax Profs Blow Up The SSRN Download Rankings. (For some reason, Mitchell Kane (NYU) — the twelfth academic co-author of the two papers — is not included in the SSRN download rankings (although the downloads are included on his individual author page)).  Here is the new list (through May 1, 2019) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	183,287	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	20,003
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	118,215	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	17,967
3	David Gamage (Indiana-Bl.)	113,771	David Gamage (Indiana-Bl.)	14,930
4	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	112,093	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	14,927
5	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	111,432	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	14,307
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	107,883	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	14,108
8	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	103,162	David Kamin (NYU)	13,104
9	David Kamin (NYU)	100,047	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	12,955
7	Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings)	100,026	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	12,762
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	99,169	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	12,557
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	97,919	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	12,554
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	42,930	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	3,198
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	36,678	Michael Simkovic (USC)	3,180
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	35,376	Jacob Goldin (Stanford)	2,766
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	31,360	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	2,680
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	27,457	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	2,525
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	25,708	Kyle Rozema (Chicago)	2,482
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	25,383	Joe Bankman (Stanford)	2,422
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	24,334	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	2,411
20	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	23,965	Kirk Stark (UCLA)	2,140
21	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,327	Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis)	2,070
22	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	23,392	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	1,874
23	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	22,526	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	1,859
24	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	22,126	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	1,674
25	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	22,026	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,621

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The 50 Most-Cited Tax Articles of All Time

Jonathan H. Choi (NYU), The Most-Cited Tax Articles of All Time, 36 Yale J. on Reg.: Notice & Comment (May 11, 2019):

Summer is nearly here, and for fellow tax nerds in need of beach reads, I’ve assembled a list of the 50 most widely cited tax law journal articles. The list is inspired by (and uses the same methodology as) Fred Shapiro and Michelle Pearse’s essay, The Most-Cited Law Review Articles of All Time [110 Mich. L. Rev. 1483 (2012)]

The list below is ordered by number of citations in other law review articles, according to HeinOnline. For comparison, I also list Google Scholar citation counts, which include cites by certain non-law journals, practice publications, books, and courts. 

Most-cited tax articles of all time

	Article	HeinOnline Article Cites	Google Scholar Cites
1.	William D. Andrews (Harvard), A Consumption-Type or Cash Flow Personal Income Tax, 87 Harv. L. Rev. 1113 (1974)	437	783
2.	Louis Kaplow (Harvard) & Steven Shavell (Harvard), Why the Legal System Is Less Efficient than the Income Tax in Redistributing Income, 23 J. Legal Stud. 667 (1994)	305	687
3.	Boris I. Bittker (Yale), A Comprehensive Tax Base as a Goal of Income Tax Reform, 80 Harv. L. Rev. 925 (1967)	298	464
4.	Boris I. Bittker (Yale), Federal Income Taxation and the Family, 27 Stan. L. Rev. 1389 (1975)	284	438
5.	Joseph Bankman (Stanford) & Thomas Griffith (USC), Social Welfare and the Rate Structure: A New Look at Progressive Taxation, 75 Cal. L. Rev. 1905 (1987)	227	352
6.	Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (Michigan), Globalization, Tax Competition, and the Fiscal Crisis of the Welfare State, 113 Harv. L. Rev. 1573 (2000)	226	748
7.	William T. Plumb, Jr. (Hogan & Hartson, Washington, D.C.), The Federal Income Tax Significance of Corporate Debt: A Critical Analysis and a Proposal, 26 Tax L. Rev. 369 (1971)	208	355
8.	Walter J. Blum (Chicago) & Harry Kalven, Jr. (Chicago), The Uneasy Case for Progressive Taxation, 19 U. Chi. L. Rev. 417 (1952)	200	418
9.	Peter D. Enrich (Northeastern), Saving the States from Themselves: Commerce Clause Constraints on State Tax Incentives for Business, 110 Harv. L. Rev. 377 (1996)	193	371
10.	Michael J. Graetz (Columbia), To Praise the Estate Tax, Not to Bury It, 93 Yale L.J. 259 (1983)	185	264
11.	Erwin N. Griswold (Harvard), The Need for a Court of Tax Appeals, 57 Harv. L. Rev. 1153 (1944)	185	240
12.	Mark G. Kelman (Stanford), Personal Deductions Revisited: Why They Fit Poorly in an Ideal Income Tax and Why They Fit Worse in a Far from Ideal World, 31 Stan. L. Rev. 831 (1979)	177	248
13.	Daniel I. Halperin (Harvard), Interest in Disguise: Taxing the Time Value of Money, 95 Yale L.J. 506 (1986)	168	259
14.	Joseph T. Sneed (Stanford), The Criteria of Federal Income Tax Policy, 17 Stan. L. Rev. 567 (1965)	164	211
15.	Michael J. Graetz (Columbia) & Michael M. O’Hear (Marquette), The “Original Intent” of U.S. International Taxation, 46 Duke L.J. 1021 (1997)	162	345
16.	Eric A. Posner (Chicago), Law and Social Norms: The Case of Tax Compliance, 86 Va. L. Rev. 1781 (2000)	155	403
17.	David A. Weisbach (Chicago) & Jacob Nussim (Bar-Ilan), The Integration of Tax and Spending Programs, 113 Yale L.J. 955 (2004)	150	245
18.	Marjorie E. Kornhauser (Tulane), The Rhetoric of the Anti-Progressive Income Tax Movement: A Typical Male Reaction, 86 Mich. L. Rev. 465 (1987)	146	214
19.	R.A. Musgrave (Harvard), In Defense of an Income Concept, 81 Harv. L. Rev. 44 (1967)	140	228
20.	Marjorie E. Kornhauser (Tulane), Love, Money, and the IRS: Family, Income-Sharing, and the Joint Income Tax Return, 45 Hastings L.J. 63 (1993)	139	216
21.	Paul L. Caron (Pepperdine), Tax Myopia, or Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Tax Lawyers, 13 Va. Tax Rev. 517 (1994)	137	155
22.	Richard L. Doernberg (Emory) & Fred S. McChesney (Emory), On the Accelerating Rate and Decreasing Durability of Tax Reform, 71 Minn. L. Rev. 913 (1987)	136	183
23.	Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (Michigan), The Structure of International Taxation: A Proposal for Simplification, 74 Tex. L. Rev. 1301 (1996)	129	285
24.	Anne L. Alstott (Yale), Tax Policy and Feminism: Competing Goals and Institutional Choices, 96 Colum. L. Rev. 2001 (1996)	129	192
25.	Stanley S. Surrey (Harvard), Federal Taxation of the Family—The Revenue Act of 1948, 61 Harv. L. Rev. 1097 (1948)	127	218

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  This ranking includes downloads from two 30- and 35-page papers by 12 tax professors on the new tax legislation that garnered a lot of media attention (including the New York Times and Washington Post) and generated a massive amount of downloads (the papers are the most downloaded tax papers of all-time by over 200%).  See Brian Leiter (Chicago), 11 Tax Profs Blow Up The SSRN Download Rankings. (For some reason, Mitchell Kane (NYU) — the twelfth academic co-author of the two papers — is not included in the SSRN download rankings (although the downloads are included on his individual author page)).  Here is the new list (through April 1, 2019) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.)	183,666	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.)	21,321
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	117,867	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	19,172
3	David Gamage (Indiana-Bl.)	113,415	David Gamage (Indiana-Bl.)	15,836
4	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	111,563	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	15,812
5	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	111,135	David Kamin (NYU)	15,561
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	107,504	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	15,472
7	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	102,881	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	15,039
8	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	102,619	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	13,791
9	David Kamin (NYU)	99,730	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	13,642
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	98,903	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	13,457
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	97,606	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	13,423
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	42,553	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	3,373
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	36,489	Michael Simkovic (USC)	3,138
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	35,251	Jacob Goldin (Stanford)	2,799
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	31,105	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	2,702
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	27,230	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	2,519
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	25,566	Kyle Rozema (Chicago)	2,489
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	25,320	Joe Bankman (Stanford)	2,462
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	24,268	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	2,415
20	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	23,948	Kirk Stark (UCLA)	2,207
21	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,327	Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis)	2,124
22	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	23,289	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	1,934
23	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	22,377	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	1,924
24	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	21,997	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	1,799
25	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	21,911	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1,647

Note that this ranking includes full-time tax professors with at least one tax paper on SSRN, and all papers (including non-tax papers) by these tax professors are included in the SSRN data.

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  This ranking includes downloads from two 30- and 35-page papers by 12 tax professors on the new tax legislation that garnered a lot of media attention (including the New York Times and Washington Post) and generated a massive amount of downloads (the papers are the most downloaded tax papers of all-time by over 200%).  See Brian Leiter (Chicago), 11 Tax Profs Blow Up The SSRN Download Rankings. (For some reason, Mitchell Kane (NYU) — the twelfth academic co-author of the two papers — is not included in the SSRN download rankings (although the downloads are included on his individual author page)).  Here is the new list (through March 1, 2019) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.)	182,983	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.)	23,702
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	117,556	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	21,322
3	David Gamage (Indiana-Bl.)	113,062	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	17,876
4	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	110,952	David Gamage (Indiana-Bl.)	17,648
5	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	110,874	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	17,588
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	107,140	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	16,838
7	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	102,619	David Kamin (NYU)	15,561
8	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	99,411	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	15,512
9	David Kamin (NYU)	99,361	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	15,405
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	98,660	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	15,229
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	97,315	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	15,151
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	42,181	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	3,618
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	36,283	Michael Simkovic (USC)	3,184
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	35,147	Jacob Goldin (Stanford)	2,850
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	30,929	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	2,793
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	27,000	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	2,633
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	25,502	Kyle Rozema (Chicago)	2,520
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	25,269	Joe Bankman (Stanford)	2,506
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	24,218	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	2,445
20	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	23,920	Kirk Stark (UCLA)	2,263
21	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,286	Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis)	2,154
22	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	23,217	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	1,969
23	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	22,216	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	1,862
24	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	21,829	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	1,791
25	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	21,806	Omri Marian (UC-Irvine)	1,669

Note that this ranking includes full-time tax professors with at least one tax paper on SSRN, and all papers (including non-tax papers) by these tax professors are included in the SSRN data.

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly ranking of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  This ranking includes downloads from two 30- and 35-page papers by 12 tax professors on the new tax legislation that garnered a lot of media attention (including the New York Times and Washington Post) and generated a massive amount of downloads (the papers are the most downloaded tax papers of all-time by over 200%).  See Brian Leiter (Chicago), 11 Tax Profs Blow Up The SSRN Download Rankings. (For some reason, Mitchell Kane (NYU) — the twelfth academic co-author of the two papers — is not included in the SSRN download rankings (although the downloads are included on his individual author page)).  Here is the new list (through February 1, 2019) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.)	182,193	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.)	27,506
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	117,168	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	25,258
3	David Gamage (Indiana)	112,693	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	21,043
4	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	110,523	David Gamage (Indiana)	20,904
5	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	110,453	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	20,798
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	106,758	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	20,051
7	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	102,268	David Kamin (NYU)	18,655
8	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	99,047	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	18,513
9	David Kamin (NYU)	99,038	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	18,410
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	98,333	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	18,327
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	96,680	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	18,228
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	42,151	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	3,598
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	36,107	Michael Simkovic (USC)	3,516
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	35,056	Kirk Stark (UCLA)	3,413
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	30,850	Jacob Goldin (Stanford)	3,014
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	26,764	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	3,011
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	25,441	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	2,798
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	25,221	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	2,719
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	24,176	Joe Bankman (Stanford)	2,627
20	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	23,914	Kyle Rozema (Chicago)	2,417
21	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,239	Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis)	2,288
22	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	23,142	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	2,007
23	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	21,733	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	1,917
24	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	21,699	Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College)	1,566
25	David Weisbach (Chicago)	20,741	Yariv Brauner (Florida)	1,369

Note that this ranking includes full-time tax professors with at least one tax paper on SSRN, and all papers (including non-tax papers) by these tax professors are included in the SSRN data.

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly rankings of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  This ranking includes downloads from two 30- and 35-page papers by 12 tax professors on the new tax legislation that garnered a lot of media attention (including the New York Times and Washington Post) and generated a massive amount of downloads (the papers are the most downloaded papers over the past 12 months across all of SSRN and the most downloaded tax papers of all-time by over 200%).  See Brian Leiter (Chicago), 11 Tax Profs Blow Up The SSRN Download Rankings. (For some reason, Mitchell Kane (NYU) — the twelfth academic co-author of the two papers — is not included in the SSRN download rankings (although the downloads are included on his individual author page)).  Here is the new list (through December 30, 2018) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.)	181,138	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.)	38,425
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	116,407	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	36,224
3	David Gamage (Indiana)	112,061	David Gamage (Indiana)	31,785
4	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	109,917	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	31,572
5	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	109,616	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	30,983
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	106,140	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	30,969
7	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	101,597	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	28,620
8	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	98,469	David Kamin (NYU)	28,593
9	David Kamin (NYU)	98,444	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	28,333
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	97,750	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	28,326
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	95,987	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	28,159
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	41,885	Jacob Goldin (Stanford)	3,979
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	35,883	Joe Bankman (Stanford)	3,520
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	34,923	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	3,494
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	30,698	Michael Simkovic (USC)	3,487
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	26,407	Kirk Stark (UCLA)	3,401
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	25,369	Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis)	3,120
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	25,151	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	3,027
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	24,115	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	2,680
20	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	23,803	Sam Donaldson (Georgia St.)	2,534
21	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,213	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	2,498
22	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	23,067	Kyle Rozema (Chicago)	2,267
23	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	21,625	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	2,065
24	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	21,512	Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College)	2,045
25	David Weisbach (Chicago)	20,663	Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indy)	1,870

Note that this ranking includes full-time tax professors with at least one tax paper on SSRN, and all papers (including non-tax papers) by these tax professors are included in the SSRN data.

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The Most Downloaded Tax Professors In 2018

1. Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan):  38,425
2. Daniel Hemel (Chicago):  36,224
3. David Gamage (Indiana):  31,785
4. Darien Shanske (UC-Davis):  31,572
5. Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings):  30,983
6. Dan Shaviro (NYU):  30,969
7. Lily Batchelder (NYU):  28,620
8. David Kamin (NYU):  28,593
9. Ari Glogower (Ohio State):  28,333
10. Cliff Fleming (BYU):  28,326
11. Rebecca Kysar (Fordham):  28,159
12. Jacob Goldin (Stanford):   3,979
13. Joe Bankman (Stanford):  3,520
14. Richard Ainsworth (Boston University):  3,494
15. Michael Simkovic (USC):  3,487
16. Kirk Stark (UCLA):  3,401
17. Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis):  3,120
18. Dhammika Dharmapala (Chicago):  3,027
19. Ruth Mason (Virginia):  2,680
20. Sam Donaldson (Georgia State):  2,534
21. Brad Borden (Brooklyn):  2,498
22. Kyle Rozema (Chicago):  2,267
23. Hugh Ault (Boston College):  2,065
24. Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College):  2,045
25. Margaret Ryznar (Indiana-Indianapolis):  1,870

The Most Popular Tax Articles Of 2018

1. 2,834 Downloads:  Joseph Bankman (Stanford), David Gamage (Indiana), Jacob Goldin (Stanford), Daniel Hemel (Chicago), Darien Shanske (UC-Davis), Kirk Stark (UCLA), Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis) & Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings), Federal Income Tax Treatment of Charitable Contributions Entitling the Donor to a State Tax Credit
2. 2,524 Downloads:  Sam Donaldson (Georgia State), Understanding the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
3. 1,247 Downloads:  Dan Shaviro (NYU), Evaluating the New US Pass-Through Rules, 2018 British Tax Rev. 49
4. 948 Downloads:  Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College) & Diane Ring (Boston College), Is New Code Section 199A Really Going to Turn Us All into Independent Contractors?
5. 711 Downloads:  Brad Borden (Brooklyn), Choice-of-Entity Decisions Under the New Tax Act
6. 651 Downloads:  Allison Christians (McGill), Introduction to Tax Policy Theory
7. 613 Downloads:  Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan) & Martin Vallespinos (S.J.D. 2018, Michigan), The Elephant Always Forgets: US Tax Reform and the WTO
8. 589 Downloads:  Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), Beat It: Tax Reform and Tax Treaties
9. 574 Downloads:  Allison Christians (McGill) & Laurens van Apeldoorn (Leiden), Taxing Income Where Value Is Created, 21 Fla. Tax Rev. ___ (2018)
10. 572 Downloads:  Jim Repetti (Boston College), The Impact of the 2017 Act's Tax Rate Changes on Choice of Entity, 21 Fla. Tax Rev. ___ (2018)

SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly rankings of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  This ranking includes downloads from two 30- and 35-page papers by 12 tax professors on the new tax legislation that garnered a lot of media attention (including the New York Times and Washington Post) and generated a massive amount of downloads (the papers are the most downloaded papers over the past 12 months across all of SSRN and the most downloaded tax papers of all-time by over 200%).  See Brian Leiter (Chicago), 11 Tax Profs Blow Up The SSRN Download Rankings. (For some reason, Mitchell Kane (NYU) — the twelfth academic co-author of the two papers — is not included in the SSRN download rankings (although the downloads are included on his individual author page)).  Here is the new list (through December 1, 2018) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.)	180,090	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.)	105,640
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	115,632	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	103,692
3	David Gamage (Indiana)	111,291	David Gamage (Indiana)	98,213
4	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	109,240	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	97,990
5	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	108,810	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	97,473
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	105,360	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	97,434
7	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	100,916	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	95,225
8	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	97,798	David Kamin (NYU)	95,179
9	David Kamin (NYU)	97,788	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	94,845
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	97,086	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	94,836
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	95,334	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	94,704
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	41,662	Jacob Goldin (Stanford)	3,995
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	35,716	Michael Simkovic (USC)	3,567
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	34,869	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	3,527
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	30,560	Joe Bankman (Stanford)	3,494
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	26,217	Kirk Stark (UCLA)	3,454
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	25,314	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	3,110
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	25,088	Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis)	3,090
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	24,084	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	2,608
20	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	23,798	Sam Donaldson (Georgia St.)	2,510
21	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,190	Brad Borden (Brooklyn)	2,406
22	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	23,033	Kyle Rozema (Chicago)	2,272
23	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	21,590	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	2,103
24	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	21,424	Omri Marian (UC-Irvine)	1,935
25	David Weisbach (Chicago)	20,597	Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College)	1,878

Note that this ranking includes full-time tax professors with at least one tax paper on SSRN, and all papers (including non-tax papers) by these tax professors are included in the SSRN data.

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly rankings of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  This ranking includes downloads from two 30- and 35-page papers by 12 tax professors on the new tax legislation that garnered a lot of media attention (including the New York Times and Washington Post) and generated a massive amount of downloads (the papers are the most downloaded papers over the past 12 months across all of SSRN and the most downloaded tax papers of all-time by over 200%).  See Brian Leiter (Chicago), 11 Tax Profs Blow Up The SSRN Download Rankings. (For some reason, Mitchell Kane (NYU) — the twelfth academic co-author of the two papers — is not included in the SSRN download rankings (although the downloads are included on his individual author page)).  Here is the new list (through November 1, 2018) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.)	178,540	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.)	105,338
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	114,509	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	102,784
3	David Gamage (Indiana)	110,268	David Gamage (Indiana)	97,375
4	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	108,229	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	97,046
5	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	107,673	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	96,591
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	104,322	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	96,523
7	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	99,943	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	94,480
8	David Kamin (NYU)	96,820	David Kamin (NYU)	94,295
9	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	96,814	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	94,034
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	96,116	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	93,961
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	94,361	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	93,796
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	41,337	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	10,686
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	35,481	Jacob Goldin (Stanford)	3,889
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)	34,815	Michael Simkovic (USC)	3,607
15	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	30,390	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	3,507
16	Richard Ainsworth (BU)	25,956	Kirk Stark (UCLA)	3,507
17	Ed Kleinbard (USC)	25,232	Joe Bankman (Stanford)	3,460
18	Vic Fleischer (UC-Irvine)	25,011	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	3,226
19	Jim Hines (Michigan)	24,039	Dennis Ventry (UC-Davis)	3,052
20	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	23,787	Ruth Mason (Virginia)	2,529
21	Richard Kaplan (Illinois)	23,145	Sam Donaldson (Georgia St.)	2,470
22	Ted Seto (Loyola-L.A.)	22,985	Kyle Rozema (Chicago)	2,355
23	Katie Pratt (Loyola-L.A.)	21,544	Brad Borden (Brooklyn	2,275
24	Robert Sitkoff (Harvard)	21,235	Omri Marian (UC-Irvine)	2,193
25	David Weisbach (Chicago)	20,542	Hugh Ault (Boston College)	2,178

Note that this ranking includes full-time tax professors with at least one tax paper on SSRN, and all papers (including non-tax papers) by these tax professors are included in the SSRN data.

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SSRN Tax Professor Rankings

SSRN has updated its monthly rankings of 750 American and international law school faculties and 3,000 law professors by (among other things) the number of paper downloads from the SSRN database.  This ranking includes downloads from two 30- and 35-page papers by 12 tax professors on the new tax legislation that garnered a lot of media attention (including the New York Times and Washington Post) and generated a massive amount of downloads (the papers are the most downloaded papers over the past 12 months across all of SSRN and the most downloaded tax papers of all-time by over 200%).  See Brian Leiter (Chicago), 11 Tax Profs Blow Up The SSRN Download Rankings. (For some reason, Mitchell Kane (NYU) — the twelfth academic co-author of the two papers — is not included in the SSRN download rankings (although the downloads are included on his individual author page)).  Here is the new list (through October 1, 2018) of the Top 25 U.S. Tax Professors in two of the SSRN categories: all-time downloads and recent downloads (within the past 12 months):

		All-Time		Recent
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.)	176,646	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Mich.)	104,534
2	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	113,132	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	101,579
3	David Gamage (Indiana)	109,012	David Gamage (Indiana)	96,359
4	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	106,906	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	95,948
5	Daniel Hemel (Chicago)	106,213	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	95,447
6	Darien Shanske (UC-Davis)	103,059	Dan Shaviro (NYU)	95,249
7	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	98,817	Lily Batchelder (NYU)	93,267
8	David Kamin (NYU)	95,623	David Kamin (NYU)	93,157
9	Manoj Viswanathan (Hastings)	95,655	Cliff Fleming (BYU)	93,050
10	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	94,914	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	92,782
11	Ari Glogower (Ohio State)	93,163	Rebecca Kysar (Fordham)	92,627
12	Michael Simkovic (USC)	41,087	Gladriel Shobe (BYU)	23,052
13	D. Dharmapala (Chicago)	35,261	Jacob Goldin (Stanford)	3,787
14	Paul Caron (Pepperdine)