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Ranking Law Schools With Lsats, Employment Outcomes, And Law Review Citations, Alfred L. Brophy
Ranking Law Schools With Lsats, Employment Outcomes, And Law Review Citations, Alfred L. Brophy
Indiana Law Journal
This Article offers an alternative to the much-discussed U.S. News & World Report rankings. Where U.S. News rankings are affected by a wide variety of factors —some of which are criticized as irrelevant to what prospective students care about or should care about—this Article looks to three variables: the median LSAT score of entering students, which seeks to capture the quality of the student body; the percentage of the graduating students who are employed at nine months following graduation at full-time, permanent, JD-required jobs (a separate analysis excludes school-funded positions and solo practitioners from this variable); and the number of …
Measuring Outcomes: Post-Graduation Measures Of Success In The U.S. News & World Report Law School Rankings, Andrew P. Morris, William D. Henderson
Measuring Outcomes: Post-Graduation Measures Of Success In The U.S. News & World Report Law School Rankings, Andrew P. Morris, William D. Henderson
Indiana Law Journal
The U.S. News & World Report annual rankings play a key role in ordering the market for legal education, and, by extension, the market for entry level lawyers. This Article explores the impact and evolution of placement and post-graduation data, which are important input variables that comprise twenty percent of the total rankings methodology. In general, we observe clear evidence that law schools are seeking to maximize each placement and post-graduation input variable. During the 1997 to, 2006 time period, law schools in all four tiers posted large average gains in employment rates upon graduation and nine months, which appear …
Ranking Law Schools: A Market Test?, Cass R. Sunstein
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
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.
Student Quality As Measured By Lsat Scores: Migration Patterns In The U.S. News Rankings Era, William D. Henderson, Andrew P. Morris
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
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
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.
Strength In Numbers? The Advantages Of Multiple Rankings, Michael Sauder, Wendy Nelson Espeland
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.
Dead Poets And Academic Progenitors: The Next Generation Of Law School Rankings (Symposium Introduction), Paul L. Caron, Rafael Gely
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
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
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.
Status Seeking And The Allure And Limits Of Law School Rankings, Michael E. Solimine
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.
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
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.