How the U.S. News rankings affect American legal education

Judicature

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 80-85

  Clark, Hunter R ^a  

^a DRAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (45)

1. Wendy Nelson Espeland & Michael Sauder, Rankings and Reactivity: How Public Measures Recreate Social Worlds, 113 AM. J. SOC. 1, 29 n.29 (2007).
2. Annual Meeting Workshop Dissects U.S. News' Ranking System, AALS News, Aug. 2006, at 5.
3. Espeland & Sauder, supra n 1, at 23.
4. See id.;
5. Rick Casey, U.S. News skews rank of UH Law, Houston Chronicle, April 18, 2006, available at http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metro[politan/ casey/3803208.html.
6. Letter from Lawrence G. Sager, Dean, University of Texas School of Law, To the Members of the UT Law Community (Apr. 5, 2007) (on file with author).
7. Id.
8. N. William Hines, Ten Major Changes in Legal Education Over the Past 25 Years, AALS News, August 2005, at 5.
9. Id.
10. William Henderson & Andrew Morriss, Rank Economics, THE AMERICAN LAWYER, June 1, 2007.
11. Espeland & Sauder, supra n.1, at 17.
12. Espeland & Sauder, supra n. 1, at 11.
13. Jerry L. Anderson, Ranking Isn't Everything, ABA JOURNAL, March 1997, at 112.
14. Nick Paumgarten, The Tycoon: The Making of Mort Zuckerman, New Yorker, July 23, 2007, at 51.
15. Id.
16. Id.
17. Id.
18. For a critical discussion of why USNs methodology for assessing hospital quality is flawed, see Sean Michael O'Brien & Eric D. Peterson, Identifying High-Quality Hospitals: Consult the Ratings or Flip a Coin, Archives of Internal Medicine, July 9, 2007, at 1342. The Archives of Internal Medicine is published twice monthly by the American Medical Association.
19. Espeland & Sauder, supra n. 1, at 23.
20. Espeland & Sauder, supra n. 1, at 24.
21. Michael Sauder & Ryon Lancaster, Do Rankings Matter? The Effects of U.S. News & World Report Rankings on the Admissions Process of Law Schools, 40 LAW & SOC'Y. REV. 105, 116 (2006).
22. See Valerie Strauss, U.S. News's College Rankings Face Competition and Criticism, Washington Post, August 17, 2007, at A3.
23. See Espeland & Sauder, supra n. 1, at 8, n.4.
24. See Alex Wellen, Where to Find the Whole Truth, New York Times, July 31, 2005.
25. Espeland & Sauder, supra n. 1, at 7.
26. See also Alex Wellen, The $8.78 Million Maneuver, New York Times, July 31, 2005 (reporting that in the prelaw community, USN'S rankings are "gospel.").
27. See Richard A. Posner, Law School Rankings, 81 IND. L.J. 13, 13 (2006).
28. Espeland & Sauder, supra n. 1, at 18.
29. Espeland & Sauder, supra n. 1, at 32.
30. Norman Bradburn, Outranked and Underrated, Legal Affairs, available at http://www.legalaffairs.org/printerfriendly.msp?id=925.
31. Id.
32. Id.
33. Id.
34. How far will law schools go to win?, THE National Jurist, January 2007, at 19.
35. Alex Wellen, The $8.78 Million Maneuver, New York Times, July 31, 2005.
36. Leigh Jones, Ranking time brings rain of glossy promos, National Law Journal, October 31, 2005, at 6.
37. Espeland & Sauder, supra n. 1, at 26.
38. Espeland & Sauder, supra n. 1, at 26.
39. John Nussbaumer, Misuse of the Law School Admissions Test, Racial Discrimination, and the De Facto Quota System for Restricting African-American Access to the Legal Profession, 80 ST. JOHN'S L. REV. 167, 167 (2006).
40. Sunny Gibson, Common Ground: Challenges Shared by Medicine & Law in Diversifying the Profession, Syllabus, Spring 2007, at 6.
41. See Ursula Furi-Perry, Do Law Firms Love Your Law School?, National Jurist, Sept. 2007, at 31.
42. Stephanie Francis Ward, Who Needs Harvard?, ABA Journal, July 2007, at 33.
43. Id.
44. See Katherine Haley Will, Breaking Ranks, Washington Post, July 9, 2007, at A15.
45. Jones, supra n. 34.