For all five of you following the fascinating dicsussion in the comments to this post, here's my list of the "top 30" general law reviews. The list represents some combination (I can't remember the precise weighting) of the W&L Citation Study, Leiter's ranking, and the US News ranking, with Indiana and W&L thrown in by fiat (bringing the total to 32):
- Harvard
- Yale
- Columbia
- Stanford
- Michigan
- NYU
- Chicago
- Georgetown
- California
- Virginia
- Penn
- Texas
- Cornell
- Northwestern
- UCLA
- Duke
- Vanderbilt
- Minnesota
- Notre Dame
- Fordham
- Southern Cal.
- North Carolina
- Wm & Mary
- Emory
- Iowa
- Wash U.
- Boston U.
- Illinois
- Wisconsin
- George Wash.
- Indiana
- Washington & Lee
I don't necessarily vouch for the ordinal numbers -- I think Chicago is manifestly a higher status law review than NYU or Columbia, for example -- but this seems like a good stab at the totality of the top 30, and a pretty decent ordinal list, as well. Doubtless one of the three of you still following this will disagree. For kicks, here's the unadulterated W&L Citation Study list:
- Harvard
- Yale
- Columbia
- Stanford
- Michigan
- Fordham
- NYU
- Georgetown
- California
- Virginia
- Texas
- Cornell
- Chicago
- UCLA
- Vanderbilt
- Penn
- Minnesota
- Northwestern
- Wm & Mary
- Notre Dame
- North Carolina
- Duke
- Southern Cal.
- Indiana
- Cardozo
- Ohio State
- Arizona
- Colorado
- Tulane
- Emory
- Connecticut
- Wisconsin
I think this list really botches it at the bottom end. And, as Gordon points out, its ordinal numbering is also screwier (Chicago is 13? On what planet?).
So -- have at it.
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