Volume 81, Issue 1: Winter 2006
SYMPOSIUM
THE NEXT GENERATION OF LAW SCHOOL RANKINGS
INTRODUCTION
- Dead Poets and Academic Progenitors: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings
- Paul L. Caron & Rafael Gely
FRAMING THE RANKINGS DEBATE
- Law School Rankings
- Richard A. Posner
- Ranking Law Schools: A Market Test?
- Cass R. Sunstein
- How to Rank Law Schools
- Brian Leiter
RANKING METHODOLOGIES
- The Rat Race as an Information-Forcing Device
- Scott Baker, Stephen J. Choi, & Mitu Gulati
- Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance
- Bernard Black & Paul L. Caron
- Student Quality as Measured by LSAT Scores: Migration Patterns in the U.S. News Rankings Era
- William D. Henderson & Andrew P. Morriss
- Strength in Numbers? The Advantages of Multiple Rankings
- Michael Sauder & Wendy Nelson Espeland
- The Interplay Between Law School Rankings, Reputations, and Resource Allocation: Ways Rankings Mislead
- Jeffrey Evans Stake
- Scholarly Profit Margins: Reflections on the Web
- Lawrence A. Cunningham
- Assessing the SSRN-Based Law School Rankings
- Theodore Eisenberg
- Segmented Rankings for Segmented Markets
- Rafael Gely
- Status Seeking and the Allure and Limits of Law School Rankings
- Michael E. Solimine
OTHER VOICES IN THE RANKINGS DEBATE
- The Destruction of the Holistic Approach to Admissions: The Pernicious Effects of Rankings
- Alex M. Johnson, Jr.
- Eating Our Cake and Having It, Too: Why Real Change Is So Difficult in Law Schools
- Nancy B. Rapoport
- Of Rankings and Regulation: Are the U.S. News & World Report Rankings Really a Subversive Force in Legal Education?
- Rachel F. Moran
- Assessing What Matters in Law School: The Law School Survey of Student Engagement
- Patrick T. O'Day & George D. Kuh
View the symposium program.
NOTES
- How the Xechem Decision May Insulate State Universities From Correction of Inventorship Suits
- Stacy Drews
- All Mixed Up: Bridgeport Music v. Dimension Films and De Minimis Digital Sampling
- Jennifer R. R. Mueller