By Christine Charnosky | November 23, 2022
"We are under no illusion that UCLA Law's decision will have a substantial impact on how law schools are evaluated by U.S. News," Interim Dean Russell Korobkin continued. "Approximately 80 percent of a law school's U.S. News 'score' is based on publicly available data and the surveys of reputation that U.S. News itself conducts, so U.S. News undoubtedly will continue to rank all of the law schools, perhaps with only minor methodological adjustments.
By Christine Charnosky | November 22, 2022
"[W]e believe that the U.S. News law school rankings" have become detrimental to legal education since "the rankings rely on flawed survey techniques and opaque and arbitrary formulas, lacking the transparency needed to help applicants make truly informed decisions," Dean Kerry Abrams told the Duke Law community Monday.
By Christine Charnosky | November 22, 2022
"[W]e are troubled that U.S. News relies in part on unverified data reported by law schools that can significantly impact outcomes," Northwestern Law Dean Hari Osofsky wrote. "This approach has implications for the accuracy and fairness of the rankings," further pointing out that law schools can only gain access to specific data by paying U.S. News.
By Christine Charnosky | November 21, 2022
"At its inception, U.S. News law school rankings provided valuable information for consumers—most importantly, students—that had not previously been widely available," but "[t]his is no longer true" since "many more consumer information resources are available today," Dean Mark West said in a letter to the Michigan Law community.
By Avalon Zoppo | November 21, 2022
Ahead of the trial, Harvard opposed publicly disclosing many details of the school's admissions process.
National Law Journal | Commentary
By Alan B. Morrison | November 21, 2022
Law school rankings have made headlines recently - when the numbers game turns into satire.
By Christine Charnosky | November 18, 2022
Half a dozen law schools have now announced that they will no longer participate in the U.S. News & World Report education rankings, with Stanford Law School publicizing its decision late Friday night.
By Zack Needles | November 18, 2022
The Georgetown University Law Center announced Friday that it will cease participating in the U.S. News & World Report education rankings, becoming the fourth law school to do so this week.
By Christine Charnosky | November 17, 2022
Observers remain split on whether these moves will inflict any lasting damage on the highly influential publication.
By Christine Charnosky | November 17, 2022
"Although rankings are inevitable and inevitably have some arbitrary features, there are aspects of the U.S. News rankings that are profoundly inconsistent with our values and public mission," Erwin Chemerinsky, dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at Berkeley, said in a statement emailed to Law.com on Thursday.
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