From Macleans, using the methodology I designed for them, and which has not generated anything like the controversy that U.S. News rankings do for some simple reasons: it utilizes no self-reported data, relying only on information in the public domain, and it involves just a handful of factors related to faculty quality and success of graduates in securing jobs, clerkships, and academic positions.




The discussion here assumes an institutional context where returning to supervised in-person assessment is at least theoretically feasible, a reasonable…