Law School Ranked 15th for “Most Cited” Tenured Faculty

The influential blog Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports noted yesterday that the University of Minnesota Law School ranked 15th among all U.S. law schools (tied with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) for the number of times its tenured faculty’s published scholarship was cited in legal journals.

This measure of scholarly impact is based on an analysis of citations drawn from work published in 20 categories of legal scholarship during the period 2010 through 2014. The Law School had eight tenured faculty members—17% of the total tenured faculty—whose work was highly cited in one of more of those categories.