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Yale 1L Takes Deans to Task for Obsessing Over U.S. News Rankings

Paul Caron

Law Schools Shouldn’t Grub For Rankings (Hartford Courant), by Michael Seringhaus (J.D. 2010, Yale):

In this piece, I discuss the overblown and often alarmist reactions of law school deans to the 2009 U.S. News rankings, published last Friday, in light of the their 2006 open letter to prospective students — in which law school deans united to caution against over-reliance on those very rankings. I also talk about the shortcomings of the rankings in general, and argue that in the business of running law schools, deans should not defer to the editors at U.S. News.

Update:  The WSJ Law Blog has more here.

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Paul Caron
Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the Dorothy and Leonard Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in the spring semesters of 2010 through 2013. He served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Pepperdine in 2015-2017. Before coming to Pepperdine, he was Associate Dean of Faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
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