Top American law faculties

I ran a Condorcet poll, using partial faculty lists, at my law blog, and several hundred readers participated.  The results might be of interest to some readers, and provide a partial antidote to the U.S. News law school rankings, which are not mainly about academics.  Among other things, regional law schools with stronger faculties (e.g., Brooklyn, Cardozo, Fordham, San Diego, Florida State) perform much better here than in U.S. News, and, at the high end, Chicago and NYU come out ahead of Stanford and Columbia, which also makes more sense.  Pay attention to the vote tallies as well--Harvard is effectively tied with Yale, as it should be in terms of overall faculty strengths (notwithstanding Harvard Law's traditional weakness in philosophy); and Duke, Northwestern, Georgetown, Cornell and UCLA are pretty tightly clustered.