Anton Sorkin (Director of Law Student Ministries, Christian Legal Society):
Interesting observation from David Lat: “schools with a strong ideological brand, including religiously affiliated law schools . . . tend to fare well in rankings[.]”
Imagine how well they'd fare if there wasn't a peer ranking penalty, tabulated by Michael Conklin at 17.65 in his upcoming paper [Religious Law Schools, Rankings, and Bias: Measuring the Rankings Penalty at Religious Law Schools].
Latest rankings has the peer reputation average for the most devout law schools: …
The RED [above] is all the schools that fare worse among their peers vs. their overall rank. The GREEN are the same schools as last year with positive peer scores.
Mike Spivey (Spivey Consulting):
[Law] schools with a strong ideological brand including religious … underperform their rankings data. They get lower peer assessment scores, whether it is correlation or actual causation, due to their strong ideology. Put another way, had their assessment scores tracked with their metric data, they would be ranked higher, but their assessment scores are dragging them back a bit.
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