In my post last week on the new 2008 U.S. News & World Report Law School Rankings, I tracked the biggest moves (up and down) in the overall ranking among the Top 100 law schools. Here is an expanded list of the biggest moves among all 184 accredited law schools:
Although Brian Leiter is surely right that "the ‘overall’ rank is a sheer nonsense number, most dramatically so outside the top 20-25," folks do care (obsess) about the overall ranking (as evidenced by this morning’s post).
