RWU Faculty Sparkles in Scholarship Survey
This summer we decided to generate some hard data on faculty scholarship and then use it to do some side-by-side comparisons with other law schools. Associate Dean Michael Yelnosky developed a methodology based upon one used several years ago by Prof. Brian Leiter from the University of Texas to compare faculties at elite schools, now looking at how often the faculties published articles in “Top 50” law reviews. We then computed the “per capita” faculty output.
Here are the rankings of law schools in New England:
1. Yale (17.5)
2. Harvard (13.6)
3. Boston University (8.8)
4. Boston College (5.1)
5. RWU (4.8)
6. Connecticut (4.6)
7. Maine (2.9)
8. Northeastern (2.8)
9. Quinnipiac (2.7)
10. New England (2.5)
11. Western New England (1.7)
12. Suffolk (1.5)
13. Vermont (0.9)
The results are striking: the RWU faculty compares favorably with high reputation schools in the region, and runs far ahead of the rest. And, unlike much advertising, this ranking is based upon data, not puffery.
An electronic release of the raw data a couple weeks ago created a buzz on leading law blogs and you can click below for some of the discussion in the ether:
If you want to learn more about the study, click here.
