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"The Pride Of Indiana": An Empirical Study Of The Law School Experience And Careers Of Indiana University School Of Law-Bloomington Alumni, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Jeffrey E. Stake, Kaushik Mukhopadhaya, Timothy Haley Oct 2006

"The Pride Of Indiana": An Empirical Study Of The Law School Experience And Careers Of Indiana University School Of Law-Bloomington Alumni, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Jeffrey E. Stake, Kaushik Mukhopadhaya, Timothy Haley

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Dr. Jerome Hall-A North Star In My Life, Lowell E. Baier Apr 2006

Dr. Jerome Hall-A North Star In My Life, Lowell E. Baier

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


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.


The Rat Race As An Information-Forcing Device, Scott Baker, Stephen J. Choi, Mitu Gulati Jan 2006

The Rat Race As An Information-Forcing Device, Scott Baker, Stephen J. Choi, Mitu Gulati

Indiana Law Journal

In many job settings, there will be some promotion criteria that are less amenable to measurement than others. Often, what is difficult to measure is more important. For example, possessing "good judgment" under pressure may be a better predictor of success as a law firm partner than the ability to bill a vast amount of hours. The first puzzle that this essay explores is why, in some promotion settings, organizations appear to focus on less important, but measurable, criteria such as hours billed The answer lies in the relationship between the objectively measurable criteria, on the one hand, and the …


An Empirical Study Of Empirical Legal Scholarship: The Top Law Schools, Tracey E. George Jan 2006

An Empirical Study Of Empirical Legal Scholarship: The Top Law Schools, Tracey E. George

Indiana Law Journal

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


Student Quality As Measured By Lsat Scores: Migration Patterns In The U.S. News Rankings Era, William D. Henderson, Andrew P. Morris Jan 2006

Student Quality As Measured By Lsat Scores: Migration Patterns In The U.S. News Rankings Era, William D. Henderson, Andrew P. Morris

Indiana Law Journal

This study examines the change in entering-class median LSAT score, a key input into the U.S. News & World Report ("U.S. News') rankings, between 1993 and 2004. Using multivariate regression analysis, the authors model several factors that can influence the direction and magnitude of this change. The study presents six specific findings: (1) the market for high Law School Admission Test (LSAT) scores is divided into two segments that operate under different rules; (2) initial starting position is a strong predictor of the future gain or loss in LSAT scores; (3) the allure of the high end corporate law firms …


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.


Ranking Law Schools: Using Ssrn To Measure Scholarly Performance, Bernard S. Black, Paul L. Caron Jan 2006

Ranking Law Schools: Using Ssrn To Measure Scholarly Performance, Bernard S. Black, Paul L. Caron

Indiana Law Journal

There are several methods for ranking the scholarly performance of law faculties, including reputation surveys (U.S. News, Leiter); publication counts (Lindgren and Seltzer, Leiter); and citation counts (Eisenberg and Wells, Leiter). Each offers a useful but partial picture offaculty performance. We explore here whether the new "beta" SSRN-based measures (number of downloads and number ofposted papers) can offer a different, also useful, albeit also partial, picture. Our modest claim is that SSRNbased measures can address some of the deficiencies in these other measures and thus play a valuable role in the rankings tapestry. For example, SSRN offers real-time data covering …


Strength In Numbers? The Advantages Of Multiple Rankings, Michael Sauder, Wendy Nelson Espeland Jan 2006

Strength In Numbers? The Advantages Of Multiple Rankings, Michael Sauder, Wendy Nelson Espeland

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.


Law School Rankings, Richard A. Posner Jan 2006

Law School Rankings, Richard A. Posner

Indiana Law Journal

Rank ordering is a crude but economical method of conveying information that assists "consumers" (such as prospective law students) to make choices; hence the popularity of the law school rankings by U.S. News & World Report ("U.S. News'). However, U.S. News's rankings are vitiated by the arbitrary weights attached to the different factors on which the rankings are based. This paper explores a variety of alternatives, beginning with the mean LSAT score of the student body, and emphasizes that the design of a ranking system is relevant to the interest of the people whom the rankings are intended to guide. …


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.


Scholarly Profit Margins: Reflections On The Web, Lawrence A. Cunningham Jan 2006

Scholarly Profit Margins: Reflections On The Web, Lawrence A. Cunningham

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.