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Correlation Versus Causality: Further Thoughts On The Law Review/Law School Liaison, Ronen Perry
Correlation Versus Causality: Further Thoughts On The Law Review/Law School Liaison, Ronen Perry
Ronen Perry
This Essay is the third in a series of articles discussing the relative value of American law reviews, and a response to Professor Alfred Brophy's elaboration of my initial study of the high mathematical correlation between law review quality, as manifested in citation-based measures, and law school reputation. Given my prior interest in the relative value of American law reviews, I have used the abovementioned correlation as a means to explain some of the variance in quality among law reviews. Brophy's empirical findings overlap mine, yet the extent of his analysis, as well as his interpretation and utilization of the …
The Relative Value Of American Law Reviews: Refinement And Implementation, Ronen Perry
The Relative Value Of American Law Reviews: Refinement And Implementation, Ronen Perry
Ronen Perry
This Article complements a recently published paper in which I discussed the theoretical and methodological aspects of law review rankings. The purpose of this Article is twofold: refinement of the theoretical framework, and implementation. It proposes, defends, and implements a complex ranking method for general-interest student-edited law reviews, based on a judicious weighting of normalized citation frequency and normalized impact factor. It then analyzes the distribution of journals’ scores, and the diminishing marginal difference between them. Finally, it examines the correlation between law schools’ positions in the U.S. News & World Report 2006 ranking and their flagship law reviews’ positions …
The Relative Value Of American Law Reviews: A Critical Appraisal Of Ranking Methods, Ronen Perry
The Relative Value Of American Law Reviews: A Critical Appraisal Of Ranking Methods, Ronen Perry
Ronen Perry
Ranking law reviews is not a novel initiative. Data regarding the relative value of legal periodicals was first published in 1930, in an article primarily concerned with the overall contribution of legal periodicals to the development of positive law. Since then many attempts have been made to rank American law reviews by various criteria. This Article, however, focuses not on actual rankings but on ranking theory and methodology. It offers an introductory discussion of the goals of law review rating, and the essential attributes of reliable and beneficial ranking methods, followed by a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the advantages …