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A Revealed Preferences Approach To Ranking Law Schools, Brian L. Frye, Christopher J. Ryan Jr. Oct 2017

A Revealed Preferences Approach To Ranking Law Schools, Brian L. Frye, Christopher J. Ryan Jr.

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The U.S. News & World Report (U.S. News) “Best Law Schools Rankings” defines the market for legal education. Law schools compete to improve their standing in the U.S. News rankings and fear any decline. But the U.S. News rankings are controversial, at least in part because they rely on factors that are poor proxies for quality, like peer reputation and expenditures per student. While many alternative law school rankings exist, none have challenged the market dominance of the U.S. News rankings. Presumably the U.S. News rankings benefit from a first-mover advantage, other rankings fail to provide a clearly superior alternative, …


Foreword To Volume 77, Louise Everett Graham Jan 1988

Foreword To Volume 77, Louise Everett Graham

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Professor Louise Graham authors this forward to the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Kentucky Law Journal. In this brief statement, Graham discusses the relevance of entrusting the guardianship of legal scholarship to students.