Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Rankings
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Law School Rankings By Fall 2021 Median LSAT Scores
Following up on yesterday’s release by the ABA of Fall 2021 admissions data: this is the first of three posts on the impact of that data on the forthcoming 2023 U.S. News Law School Rankings (the 2022 rankings are here). In the current methodology, a law school’s median LSAT and GRE scores count 11.25% in…
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July 2021 California Bar Exam Results For Out-Of-State Law Schools
Following up on yesterday's post on the July 2021 California Bar Exam results for in-state law schools: the state bar has released comparable data for out-of-state law schools. Overall, 52.6% of all applicants passed the California bar exam. Among graduates of ABA-accredited law schools, first-time takers from in-state law schools passed at a higher rate…
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July 2021 California Bar Exam Results
The California State Bar has released school-by-school data on the July 2021 California Bar Exam. Here are the results for first time test takers for the 18 California ABA-accredited law schools, along with each school’s U.S. News ranking (California and overall): Bar Pass Rank (Rate) School US News Rank CA (Overall) 1 (95.5%) UC-Berkeley…
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Former Temple Dean Convicted In U.S. News Rankings Scandal Fraud; AUSA Hopes Case Send A Message To Administrators At Other Schools
Following up on my previous posts (links below): Philadelphia Inquirer, Former Temple Business School Dean Guilty in Rankings Scandal Fraud Case: The rankings scandal cost Porat his job as dean and the university hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal settlements. The former dean of Temple University’s Fox School of Business was convicted Monday of…
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Yale Dean Finds ‘Something Fishy’ In B-School Rankings, Highlights Need For Greater Transparency
Chronicle of Higher Education, Is This College Ranking Faulty?: A dean found something fishy in a magazine’s list of business schools. The editors say he’s off base. There was a lot that Anjani Jain liked about Bloomberg Businessweek’s ranking of business schools. It was only when the deputy dean at the Yale School of Management dug…
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Only 2 Of The 50 Most-Cited Legal Scholars Are Women
Fred R. Shapiro (Yale), The Most-Cited Legal Scholars Revisited, 88 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1595 (2021): This Essay presents a list of the fifty most-cited legal scholars of all time, intending to spotlight individuals who have had a very notable impact on legal thought and institutions. Because citation counting favors scholars who have had long…
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Admissions Data At 90% Of The U.S. News Top 50: Higher LSATs, UGPAs, And Enrollment
Following up on my previous posts (links below): with Spivey Consulting reporting the admissions statistics for 90% of the U.S. News Top 50 law schools, LSAT (+1.5) and UGPA (+0.3) medians are up, as well as enrollment (+27.0). (Yellow shading indicates law schools added since my September 15 post):
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U.S. News Crime Spree: Florida Students Steal 40 Of 75 Banners Celebrating Top 5 Public University Ranking
The Independent Florida Alligator, Forty UF Top-Five Banners Stolen From Campus: Seventy-five banners that read “Top 5” hung at UF. Now, only 35 remain. Forty banners celebrating the school’s new national ranking have been stolen across the UF campus. Since the week of Sept. 13, the missing banners amount to a loss of almost $3,000,…
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U.S. News Releases Elementary School (!) Rankings
U.S. News & World Report, New Elementary and Middle Schools Rankings Launched: Today, for the first time, U.S. News published rankings of public elementary and middle schools [methodology here]. Like our annual Best High Schools rankings, we hope these statistical assessments are a useful resource for parents in conjunction with the accompanying data we publish on…
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Law & Society Association Statement On Rejection Of ‘Scholarly Impact’ Ranking Of Law Faculty
Following up on my previous post, U.S. News Abandons Plan To Issue Citations Ranking Of Law Faculty: Law & Society Association, Statement on Recent Rejection of “Scholarly Impact” Metric: The U.S. News and World Report Decided to Reject a Proposed Law School Rankings Metric that Would Have Impacted LSA Scholars The Law and Society Association…
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The Most-Cited Law Faculties: Sisk-Leiter (Westlaw) v. Sag (HeinOnline)
Following up on my previous post, The 68 Most-Cited Law Faculties: Matthew Sag (Loyola-Chicago), A Simple and Inclusive Citation Ranking of U.S. Law Schools (19 pages): Scholarly impact, academic influence, or faculty reputation: call it what you will, there is a general sense that the work that law professors do outside the classroom is important part…
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2021 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews
Update: 2023 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2021 Meta-Ranking of Flagship US Law Reviews: This is an updated ranking of the top flagship law reviews at US law schools (updated as of September 29, 2021). … The ranking table below includes 193 flagship law reviews from ABA accredited law schools.…