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2006

Maurer School of Law: Indiana University

Law School Rankings Debate

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Ranking Law Schools: A Market Test?, Cass R. Sunstein Jan 2006

Ranking Law Schools: A Market Test?, Cass R. Sunstein

Indiana Law Journal

Instead of ranking law schools through statistical aggregations of expert judgments or by combining a list of heterogeneous factors, it would be possible to rely on a market test simply by examining student choices. This tournament-type approach would have the large advantage of relying on the widely dispersed information that students actually have; it would also reduce reliance on factors that can be manipulated (and whose manipulation does no good other than to increase rankings). On the other hand, a market test has several problems as a measure of law school quality, partly because cognitive biases and social influences may …


Harnessing The Positive Power Of Rankings: A Response To Posner And Sunstein, Russell Korobkin Jan 2006

Harnessing The Positive Power Of Rankings: A Response To Posner And Sunstein, Russell Korobkin

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings held April 15, 2005 at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington.


Eating Our Cake And Having It, Too: Why Real Change Is So Difficult In Law Schools, Nancy B. Rapoport Jan 2006

Eating Our Cake And Having It, Too: Why Real Change Is So Difficult In Law Schools, Nancy B. Rapoport

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings held April 15, 2005 at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington.


Assessing What Matters In Law School: The Law School Survey Of Student Engagement, Patrick T. O'Day, George D. Kuh Jan 2006

Assessing What Matters In Law School: The Law School Survey Of Student Engagement, Patrick T. O'Day, George D. Kuh

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings held April 15, 2005 at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington.


Segmented Rankings For Segmented Markets, Rafael Gely Jan 2006

Segmented Rankings For Segmented Markets, Rafael Gely

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings held April 15, 2005 at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington.


Dead Poets And Academic Progenitors: The Next Generation Of Law School Rankings (Symposium Introduction), Paul L. Caron, Rafael Gely Jan 2006

Dead Poets And Academic Progenitors: The Next Generation Of Law School Rankings (Symposium Introduction), Paul L. Caron, Rafael Gely

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings held April 15, 2005 at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington.


How To Rank Law Schools, Brian Leiter Jan 2006

How To Rank Law Schools, Brian Leiter

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings held April 15, 2005 at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington.


The Interplay Between Law School Rankings, Reputations, And Resource Allocation: Ways Rankings Mislead, Jeffrey Evans Stake Jan 2006

The Interplay Between Law School Rankings, Reputations, And Resource Allocation: Ways Rankings Mislead, Jeffrey Evans Stake

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings held April 15, 2005 at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington.


Assessing The Ssrn-Based Law School Rankings, Theodore Eisenberg Jan 2006

Assessing The Ssrn-Based Law School Rankings, Theodore Eisenberg

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings held April 15, 2005 at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington.


Status Seeking And The Allure And Limits Of Law School Rankings, Michael E. Solimine Jan 2006

Status Seeking And The Allure And Limits Of Law School Rankings, Michael E. Solimine

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings held April 15, 2005 at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington.


The Destruction Of The Holistic Approach To Admissions: The Pernicious Effects Of Ranking, Alex M. Johnson Jr. Jan 2006

The Destruction Of The Holistic Approach To Admissions: The Pernicious Effects Of Ranking, Alex M. Johnson Jr.

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings held April 15, 2005 at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington.


How The Blogs Saved Law School: Why A Diversity Of Voices Will Undermine The U.S. News & World Report Rankings, Sam Kamin Jan 2006

How The Blogs Saved Law School: Why A Diversity Of Voices Will Undermine The U.S. News & World Report Rankings, Sam Kamin

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings held April 15, 2005 at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington.


Of Rankings And Regulation: Are The U.S. News & World Report Rankings Really A Subversive Force In Legal Education?, Rachel F. Morán Jan 2006

Of Rankings And Regulation: Are The U.S. News & World Report Rankings Really A Subversive Force In Legal Education?, Rachel F. Morán

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings held April 15, 2005 at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington.