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Apr 20, 2010
US News Law School Rankings: the 2010 Rankings are Out

I managed to sprain/break my ankle last week while lightly jogging to my car. I’ve been claiming I fell on a curb, but really, it was just a slight incline (hey, it was dark!). I then fainted, like a lady in Victorian England wearing a corset too tightly. I say “sprain/break” because my ankle a)

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Mar 18, 2010
Diversity in US News Law School Rankings? Non-existent.

It’s not a secret that we are not the biggest fans of the US News Rankings here at MSS. Trent has had multiple postings on the subject of the rankings and there’s no real reason to delve back into it except to say that the rankings themselves may or may not be an insidious plot

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Nov 04, 2009
Law School Rankings: When a Comfy Chair Counts

As has been discussed ad nauseam, law school rankings can often be inaccurate oversimplifications and generally detrimental for everyone other than US News and World Report shareholders. For a variety of reasons I won’t go into now, USNWR is generally the only one that means anything, but as I’ve mentioned before, you should always do

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Oct 27, 2009
USNWR Law School Rankings are Bad News

It’s no secret that it’s expensive to go to law school. But when a public school (UC Hastings) ranked 39th charges more for tuition than a private school (Stanford) ranked 3rd; something is very, very wrong. We naturally thought the recession was to blame. As state governments slash funding to universities, public schools have to

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Oct 12, 2009
Pancakes and Professors: More Law School Rankings

As everyone knows, US News and World Report already dropped the Fat Man of rankings on us not so long ago, but just this week The Princeton Review (TPR) dropped their Little Boy as well. TPR does their own ranking system, and while it’s much less regarded than US News, there are some pretty interesting

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Oct 05, 2009
More USNWR Law School Ranking Crappery

I was thinking of following Trent’s lead and writing about whatever the hell pops into my mind (number one contender was The Various Firms and Starting Salaries of the Muppets) when I came across this little story this morning. Back in his heyday of being relevant, Trent also wrote about how USNWR can be pretty

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Jul 08, 2009
Why U.S. News Law School Rankings are Lame: Part Trois

I’m tired of talking about this, so I can only imagine how tired you must be of hearing about it. In my first post on this subject I argued that the USNWR rankings use LSAT scores in a way that is inappropriately self-reinforcing. In my second post, I argued that the use of lawyers’ and

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Jun 25, 2009
Why U.S. News Law School Rankings Are Lame: Part Deux

In my last post, I bemoaned USNWR’s law school rankings as being performative rather than merely descriptive; that is, I claimed that the rankings create and reinforce a hierarchy of law schools, rather than merely tracking an independently established hierarchy. I’m going to do more of the same here, but now I want to focus

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