FSU Law Recognized (again) for Outstanding Faculty and Value
A recent article, Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties: Extending the Leiter Rankings to the Top 70 (Sept. 2010) by Gregory Sisk, Valerie Aggerbeck, Debby Hackerson & Mary Wells, builds upon an earlier ranking by Brian Leiter and ranks our law faculty the 23rd best in the nation in terms of per capita scholarly impact (placing us in a tie with Emory and University of California at Davis).
The authors state: “As informed observers know, and as confirmed by its Scholarly Impact Score in the Top 25, Florida State’s law faculty has developed into a nationally-prominent and highly productive group of scholars. If the U.S. News academic reputation survey, as well as its overall ranking, does not soon assign Florida State a solid position within the coveted top fifty, the U.S. News ranking methodology may be questioned as less-than-fully responsive to genuine changes in a law school’s quality.”
In a similar vein, Hispanic Business magazine has again ranked us as one of the nation’s top 10 law schools for Hispanic students. And, the National Jurist and preLaw magazines have ranked Florida State the eighth best value law school in the nation, considering tuition, indebtedness, employment rate and bar passage rate.