Robert Morse, Director of Data Research at U.S. News & World Report, blogs about The Great Law School Rankings Debate:
The U.S. News law school rankings draw more attention and controversy than any of our other graduate school rankings. They’ve even been the subject of academic symposia [citing the AALS’ January 2007 Workshop on the Ratings Game our April 2005 Indiana symposium on The Next Generation of Law School Rankings].
Many blogs also regularly write about law school rankings. Some of my favorites are: MoneyLaw, TaxProf, Agoraphilia, and Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports. For those interested in staying informed about law school rankings these blogs are worth reading.
Some law school academics even weigh in with journal articles. William Henderson and Andrew Morris’s piece in The American Lawyer [Rank Economics, blogged here] has created a stir. …
The authors challenge law schools to become more accountable saying, "By facilitating transparency and accountability, the legal academy and the ABA can end the tiresome annual ritual of abusing U.S. News, and focus instead on creating incentives that work to the long-term benefit of students and the bar."
U.S. News agrees: The need to provide prospective law school students and those that hire them with information that is not available from other sources will continue to be the main purpose of our law school rankings. [Hat Tip: Adjunct Law Prof Blog.]
Tom Bell (Chapman) has released the Z-scores of the Top 100 law schools from his model of the 2008 U.S. News & World Report Law School rankings. (He explains here why he does not release the z-scores for Tier 3 and Tier 4 law schools.)
