In 2025, 54 GW Law faculty members published 175 scholarly articles, books, and op-eds inspiring, influencing, and impacting the legal field.
GW Law consistently ranks in the top law schools for scholarly impact with over 1.4 million downloads of articles authored by the school's faculty members to date, according to the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). GW Law is No. 6 on the SSRN's ranking of Top 750 Law Schools.
GW Law faculty also ranked No. 12 in Sisk-Leiter's ranking of Scholarly Impact for Faculty Under 60 in 2021 and No. 17 in Sisk-Leiter's 2024 Scholarly Impact Ranking. Three GW Law professors—Richard Pierce, the Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law; Robert Glicksman, the J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law; and Emily Hammond, Interim Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Glen Earl Weston Research Professor of Law—are among the Top 20 Administrative Law Scholars in the nation, according to Hein Online.
Five GW Law professors—William Dodge, Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence; Paul Schiff Berman, Walter S. Cox Professor of Law; Sean Murphy, Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law; and Laura Dickinson, Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law—rank among the top 100 International Law scholar according to Hein Online. (The late Professor Steve Charnovitz, who passed in 2025, was also listed in the international law ranking.)
And Professor Daniel Solove, the Eugene L. and Barbara A. Bernard Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law and Faculty Co-Director of the GW Center for Law & Technology: The Bernard Center, is the No. 1 most cited law and technology professor born after 1970.
In 2025, GW Law junior faculty were especially busy. Professor Alicia Solow-Niederman published an article titled "AI and Doctrinal Collapse," which won an honorable mention award at the AALS Annual Meeting in January and was named in the Future of Privacy Forum's Privacy Papers for Policy Makers awards. Professor Tania Valdez published two papers, "Joyful Collaboration: Chicanas Building Comunidad in Legal Academia" in the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law, and Justice and "Supreme Court Affirms Lawlessness of the Removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia" in the George Washington Law Review.
Associate Professor Heidi Liu partnered with Professor Kathryne Young to publish an article titled "What Can Legal Knowledge Do for Access to Justice?" in the Duke Law Review. Associate Dean Aram Gavoor published an article titled "Agency Delay and the Courts" in the Administrative Law Review. And Professor Christopher Havasy published
"Social Justice Conflicts in Public Law" in the California Law Review.
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