I have a brief paper up on ssrn that relies on
John Doyle's outstanding law review citation database to rank secondary law journals:
"Law [Review]'s Empire: The Assessment of Law Reviews and Trends in Legal Scholarship." It follows up on
"The Relationship Between Law Review Citations and Law School Rankings" and is part of an issue of the
Connecticut Law Review, which features
Ronen Perry's important work. I suspect the paper's primary utility comes in ranking the top 100 secondary journals, though I'm again in interested in what having well-cited secondary journals says about a school.
Of the top 100 student-edited secondary journals, 58 are produced by students at just 15 schools. You might find this list interesting.
| Law School | Number of Secondary
Journals In Top 100 |
| Harvard | 8 |
| Columbia | 6 |
| Georgetown | 5 |
| California | 4 |
| Yale | 4 |
| UVA | 4 |
| Boston College | 3 |
| Fordham | 3 |
| Hastings | 3 |
| Michigan | 3 |
| Pennsylvania | 3 |
| American | 3 |
| NYU | 3 |
| Texas | 3 |
| William and Mary | 3 |