New Ranking Places Minnesota Law as #1 in the Nation for Faculty Interdisciplinary Scholarly Impact
A Journal of Legal Education article ranks Minnesota Law as the top law school in the nation for “interdisciplinary impact.”
The article, "Total Scholarly Impact: Law Professor Citations in Non-Law Journals," was written by Vanderbilt Law professors J.B. Ruh and Michael P. Vandenbergh, and lecturer in law Sarah E. Dunaway. The authors' methodology involved using citation counts and other information available from the Web of Science database.
The article reports that top five law school for professors with citations outside law journals are (in ranked order):
- Minnesota Law
- Stanford Law
- Yale Law
- Duke Law
- University of California, Irvine School of Law
Minnesota Law’s top five most-cited law scholars on the interdisciplinary list are:
- Professor Susan Wolf (who is # 2 in the nation overall)
- Professor William McGeveran
- Profesor Emeritus Michael Tonry
- Professor Paul Vaaler, and
- Professor Francis Shen.
Minnesota Law has done well on a number of surveys of interdisciplinary scholarly impact using various methodologies due to the strength and depth of its faculty's interdisciplinary scholarship.
Related:
Total Scholarly Impact: Law Professor Citations in Non-Law Journals, 69 J. Leg. Educ. 782 (2020),
