Following up on my previous post, Are Faith-Based Law Schools Fairly Ranked By U.S. News?:  Anton Sorkin (Director of Law Student Ministries, Christian Legal Society), Religious Law Schools, Rankings, & Bias:

With the release of U.S. News Rankings last month, renewed interest has surfaced regarding the parameters and impact of placement. Where law schools fall speaks to not only the quality of their perceived education, but also success regarding student employment and faculty publication. On this episode, I speak with Michael Conklin, a scholar who’s been measuring bias within the Rankings system, this time focusing his attention on religious law schools. His paper, soon to be published in the Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy, is entitled Religious Law Schools, Rankings, and Bias: Measuring the Rankings Penalty at Religious Law Schools.

Among the things we discuss includes how rankings systems work, what peers scores actually mean, how bias pervades religious law school rankings, the impact of this bias on students and faculty, and more.

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