Rating the Scholarly Impact of the VC “Faculty”:

Brian Leiter has posted a new study of the “scholarly impact” of top law school faculties in the U.S.

Using the same methodology as Brian Leiter’s recent survey, and including regular VC bloggers except for Ilya and Sasha, who are not yet tenured (and therefore would be excluded under the Leiter methodology), David Kopel, who is not a law professor, and Paul Cassell, who was busy serving as a federal judge until recently,* the “mean scholarly impact” of VC bloggers is 530, which beats every law school in the country. The “median scholarly impact” is 330, which beats everyone but Yale.

* The list is thus Adler, Barnett, Bernstein, Carpenter, Kerr, Lindgren, Posner, Post, Volokh, and Zywicki. Adding Paul Cassell to the list would not substantially change the results.