Rankings
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These are *not* the “choosiest” law schools, these are the ones most busy gaming USNews.com rankings
This is, alas, fairly gullible "reporting": No. 1 for the highest median undergraduate grade point average is the University of Alabama School of Law, which accepted students with a 2022 median undergrad GPA of 3.95. Yale Law’s undergrad GPA was 3.94, putting it in a tie with the University of Virginia School of Law and…
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Best American judges of the 20th century?
The earlier poll got nearly 200 responses, though since Professor Kerr (Berkeley) linked to it from his popular Twitter account, the responses probably came from more than just the regular blog readers. Of the write-ins (some of whom were not eligible, like Roger Taney [!]), the only one that got traction, rightly so, was Robert…
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Who were the best American judges of the 20th-century?
Here's a poll with I hope most of the likely choices for the "top 10". You can write-in others. Only judges no longer serving were eligible. Have fun!
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Professor Wax files grievance against Penn Law Dean Ruger
…according to Blog Emperor Caron, who has been keeping track. Most of those joined after USNews.com announced it would utilize only public data and its own survey data. According to the Blog Emperor, 53 schools have officially declined to join the boycott, while the rest are either hedging or not telling! An informative report from…
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So what might the new USNews.com ranking look like?
We know what the criteria will be, and we know most (but not all) of the inputs, what we don't know is the new arbitrary "weightings." Professor Muller (Iowa) charts the possibilities on various reasonable assumptions about weightings. (I'm not sure those schools boycotting the rankings will do worse in the reputational surveys, but we'll…
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UC Law San Francisco (formerly Hastings) joins the USNews.com ranking boycott
Dean Faigman's statement is here. I'm not sure what joining the boycott at this point means, since USNews.com has indicated it will use public data, plus its own survey data.
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Big changes coming to USNews.com rankings
USNews.com has written to law school Deans announcing some significant changes, as a result of the boycott initiated by Yale. Here are the highlights: 1. USNews.com will give full credit in the employment metric to "school-funded full-time long-term fellowships where bar passage is required or where the JD degree is an advantage," as well as…
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Cal Western joins USNews.com ranking boycott
Statement here. I'm not sure what the import is of joining the boycott at this point, since I believe reporting to USNews.com was due before this announcement. In any case, we now have, I believe, about 20 schools boycotting which will not make much difference to USNews.com's annual mischief.
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New Hampshire joins USNews.com rankings boycott
Dean Carpenter's statement is here. Unfortunately for the boycott effort, there's still less than 20 schools boycotting.
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Some questions for law schools joining the boycott of USNews.com rankings
Dean Rutledge at the University of Georgia (a school not joining the boycott) kindly gave permission to share some questions he has both for and about law schools that are joining the boycott: For those schools who claim to be “boycotting/not cooperating with/posturing with respect to” US News Are they completing the reputational survey? Are…
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Campbell Law joins boycott of USNews.com rankings
Statement here. More law schools that are regularly and unfairly denigrated by USNews.com will need to join the boycott if this is to really affect the operations of USNews.com.
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USLaw.com ranking boycott update #2
UVA has joined the boycott. No word yet from Texas, Vanderbilt, or Southern California, as well as most law schools outside the "top 20."
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USNews.com ranking boycott update
Penn is out, so is NYU, and so is the University of Washington in Seattle. Virginia, Texas, Vanderbilt, and Southern California–among top schools–have made no announcement either way. Chicago, Cornell, Wash U/St. Louis, Georgia, and George Mason have formally announced they are not joining the boycott and it's a safe assumption that any school that…
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It’s official: Cornell is not joining the boycott against USNews.com
The ambiguity of Cornell's initial statement has now been clarified: no boycotting for Cornell.
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Even if Yale Law may not be #1 in USNews.com rankings much longer…
…it will still #1 for graduates convicted of seditious conspiracy! I would love to see Mr. Rhodes's application file!
Then my question is how many of ordinary mathematicians also qualify as artists of their profession…