Law School Faculty Ranks 6th Among Peer Institutions in Scholarly Productivity

October 3, 2007

Adjunct Professor H. Macy Favor, L'92, T'97, teaches Tax Timing Programs in the LL.M. and M.T. program.

The Capital University Law School faculty ranked sixth among faculty at peer institutions in a recent study of the scholarly productivity of law school faculty. The study, conducted by Roger Williams University, measured the per capita productivity of faculties at the 63 law schools ranked in the third and fourth tier in the most recent U.S. News & World Report rankings, as well as law schools located in close geographic proximity to Roger Williams. Capital also scored higher than the four other Ohio law schools included in the study.

“Capital Law School has a terrific, hard working, and dedicated faculty,” said Dean Jack A. Guttenberg. “While they are first and foremost teachers, they are also committed scholars, contributing greatly to the knowledge and discourse in their respective fields of expertise.”

The study drew on methods for ranking scholarly productivity originally developed by Professor Brian Leiter, the Hines H. Baker & Thelma Kelley Baker Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law, for his study, “Per Capita Faculty Productivity Based on Articles in Top Journals.” The Roger Williams study tracked articles published in leading law journals by tenure and tenure-track faculty at ABA-accredited law schools between 1993 and 2007. The study measured the number of articles each faculty member published in a qualifying journal during the relevant time period. Qualifying journals included the general law reviews published by the 54 schools receiving the highest peer assessment scores in the 2007 U.S. News Rankings and an additional 14 journals that appear in the top 50 of the Washington & Lee Law Journal Combined Rankings. Each article appearing in a qualifying journal was then assigned a point value based on length. The total number of points earned by a faculty was divided by the number of tenure and tenure track professors on that faculty. Capital’s faculty published 49 qualifying articles, earning it a total of 119 points.

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The results of the study are available at http://law.rwu.edu/facultyproductivity/.