Thursday, May 4, 2006
SSRN Top Labor Faculty Rankings
Following Paul Caron’s lead over at the TaxProf Blog, I have attempted to
rank the Top Labor Faculty in terms of both new
SSRN downloads within the past 12 months and in terms of all-time
SSRN downloads. SSRN has updated its new monthly rankings of 343
American and international law school faculties and 1,500
law professors as of May 2, 2006.
I did my best as I went over the list of law professors to try to identify those faculty members whose primary teaching and research interests in recent years have focused on the labor and employment law context. Of course, this ranking only includes labor and employment professors with at least one labor-related paper on SSRN.
I would appreciate if readers would use the comment section to please tell
me about any individuals I might have missed and I will update this list
accordingly in the days to come. Thanks for the help!
Top 30 Labor Faculty SSRN Rankings | ||||
Labor Faculty (School) |
Labor Rank |
Labor Rank |
||
Kenneth Dau-Schmidt (Indiana-Bloomington) |
1 |
152 |
6 |
480 |
Rafael Gely (Cincinnati) |
2 |
162 |
3 |
178 |
Orly Lobel (San Diego) |
3 |
195 |
7 |
505 |
Richard Bales (N. Ky/Chase) |
4 |
198 |
10 |
590 |
Miriam Cherry (Univ. of the Pacific-McGeorge) |
5 |
228 |
9 |
573 |
Katherine Stone (UCLA) |
6 |
295 |
11 |
604 |
Stewart Schwab (Cornell) |
7 |
310 |
2 |
174 |
Michael Selmi (GW) |
8 |
337 |
4 |
409 |
Christine Jolls (Harvard) |
9 |
352 |
1 |
166 |
Angela Onwuachi-Willig (UC Davis) |
10 |
365 |
8 |
548 |
Matthew Bodie (Hofstra) |
11 |
424 |
15 |
713 |
Charles Sullivan (Seton Hall) |
12 |
454 |
16 |
755 |
Samuel Bagenstos (Wash U.) |
13 |
542 |
17 |
828 |
Scott Moss (Marquette.) |
14 |
680 |
27 |
1336 |
James Brudney (Ohio State) |
15 |
829 |
12 |
616 |
Paul Secunda (Mississippi) |
16 |
843 |
26 |
1327 |
Matthew Finkin (UCLA) |
17 |
855 |
24 |
1215 |
Ellen Dannin (Wayne State) |
18 |
861 |
11 |
607 |
Melissa Hart (Colorado) |
19 |
871 |
-- |
1571 |
Sharona Hoffman (Case Western) |
20 |
1007 |
18 |
843 |
Catherine Fisk (Duke) |
21 |
1029 |
20 |
963 |
Laura Kessler (Utah) |
22 |
1045 |
29 |
1466 |
Stephen Befort (Minnesota) |
23 |
1060 |
21 |
1123 |
Harry Hutchinson (Geo. Mason) |
24 |
1083 |
-- |
1520 |
Seth Harris (New York Law) |
25 |
1146 |
19 |
852 |
Elizabeth Pendo (St. Thomas) |
26 |
1268 |
25 |
1236 |
Jennifer Gordon (Fordham) |
27 |
1323 |
-- |
2030 |
Alex Long (Oklahoma City) |
28 |
1343 |
-- | 1879 |
Kim Yuracko (Northwestern) |
29 |
1409 |
28 |
1422 |
Michelle Travis (San Francisco) |
30 |
1421 |
-- |
1597 |
| Michael Stein (William & Mary) | -- | 1540 | 5 | 477 |
| J.H. Verkerke (Virginia) | -- | 1662 | 12 | 616 |
| Gillian Lester (UCLA) | -- | 1693 | 14 | 679 |
| Vicki Schultz (Yale) | -- | 1728 | 23 | 1204 |
| Cynthia Estlund (NYU) | -- | 2406 | 22 | 1128 |
Like Paul Caron, I want to emphasize that these rankings are imperfect measures of faculty scholarly performance and the SSRN data only plays a role in faculty rankings along with other ranking measures.
PS
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2006/05/_following_paul.html
Comments
I respect Ellen's views, but I agree more with Paul Caron who wrote in a recent law review article about rankings (Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. 83, 120 (2006)):
"The detailed [SSRN] rankings map only loosely our subjective sense of quality within the listed scholars. Moreover, there are major scholars . . . who are absent or low-ranked based on SSRN downloads, often due to non-posting."
Posted by: Paul Secunda | May 5, 2006 10:09:08 AM
Y'know, I just looked at this list. I'm flattered that I'm on it. But as nice it is to be in such good company, I think something must be wrong with it! How could a junior person like me be on this list?
As for Ellen's comment that law reviews don't like you to post papers on SSRN, that's increasingly no longer the case. The law reviews understand that you want a PDF to post on SSRN, and they send it to you. At least that's been my experience the last two years.
(You just have to ask.)
Posted by: Miriam Cherry | May 7, 2006 5:27:57 PM
Oh, and taught the last class of my Hofstra visit. My affiliation should be listed as University of the Pacific-McGeorge.
Posted by: Miriam Cherry | May 7, 2006 5:38:38 PM
Why would you even care about this? Ranking people is annoying, and this is such a bogus database. I only know my situation, but only a very tiny percentage of my articles are even up there. I tend not to put them up because for one thing the law reviews who are publishing them don't like it.
I know SSRN wants us all to get into a dither about these rankings, but who cares what they want.
This is not a productive use of anyone's time, resources, or concern.
As for your comment that these should only play a partial role in rankings, that's off the mark. They should play no role.
Posted by: Ellen Dannin | May 5, 2006 6:11:17 AM