Yale Law Journal ties for top ranking
The rankings of the 100 best law reviews in this month’s issue of the National Jurist were bittersweet for Eli law students: The Yale Law Journal and Harvard Law Review tied for first.
The study, compiled by Washington & Lee University Law School librarian John Doyle over the last six years, seeks to gauge the journals’ influence on legal scholarship based on the number of times they were cited in cases or other publications in the last eight years.
But this approach favors subject matter that is more subject to being cited, which may disadvantage some specialized journals,...
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