FSU Law Continues to Improve...

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<p>From Brian</a> Leiter's Law School Reports:

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We'll be posting soon a new study of the scholarly impact of law faculties at the ranking site which looks at citations to faculty scholarship for the period 2004-through very early 2010 (it's an updated and expanded version of this study). The top ten (factoring in per capita mean and median impact), with their normalized score in parentheses, are as follows:</p>

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<li><p>Yale University (100)</p></li>
<li><p>Harvard University (87)</p></li>
<li><p>University of Chicago (84)</p></li>
<li><p>Stanford University (74)</p></li>
<li><p>New York University (65)</p></li>
<li><p>Columbia University (61)</p></li>
<li><p>University of California, Berkeley (56)</p></li>
<li><p>Northwestern University (49)</p></li>
<li><p>University of California, Irvine (48)</p></li>
<li><p>Vanderbilt University (45)
Filling out the top 25, it is perhaps particularly notable that Florida State University came in at #23 (tied with Emory University and the University of California at Davis). There will also be new specialty impact rankings, including Administrative Law, Family Law, and Property, as well as previous categories like Tax, Law & Economics, Legal History, and International Law, among others.

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See: Brian</a> Leiter's Law School Reports: New Scholarly Impact Study Forthcoming</p></li>
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<p>I think it’s becoming more and more obvious that FSU has the flagship law program of the state. It’ll take years before the demographics and power over the state take hold, but on a purely academic basis, FSU just keeps improving whereas UF’s status is stagnating.</p>