After years of running a Law School Survey that
ranked faculties of law across Canada by gathering results of a questionnaire sent to alumni, Canadian Lawyer is doing things a bit differently this year.
Not exact matches
Predictably, the recent announcement
of the U.S. News and World Report's
law school
rankings has generated observations about some
of the factors underlying the
rankings, from bar passage rates and
faculty scholarship to whether the
rankings are at all meaningful.
It includes two new
law school quality rankings — of law faculty and law students — and expands and redesigns the rankings material formerly maintained on the University of Texas School of Law Web si
law school quality
rankings —
of law faculty and law students — and expands and redesigns the rankings material formerly maintained on the University of Texas School of Law Web si
law faculty and
law students — and expands and redesigns the rankings material formerly maintained on the University of Texas School of Law Web si
law students — and expands and redesigns the
rankings material formerly maintained on the University
of Texas School
of Law Web si
Law Web site.
Rankings can be created based on a number
of factors (such as price, LSAT percentile, employment
of graduates, student /
faculty ratio, number
of volumes in the library, budget for learning, and whether Tibetan food is available within 600 m from the
law school) weighted however you like.
To further fuel this
ranking frenzy, Joe Hodnicki at Law Librarian Blog took this latest Leiter ranking of law professor placements, added in Leiter's earlier ranking of law faculties based on scholarly impact, and then lined it all up against the U.S. News & World Report 2008 rankings of the best law schools, to produce this chart: A Jury of One's Peers: Ranking Law School Reput
ranking frenzy, Joe Hodnicki at
Law Librarian Blog took this latest Leiter ranking of law professor placements, added in Leiter's earlier ranking of law faculties based on scholarly impact, and then lined it all up against the U.S. News & World Report 2008 rankings of the best law schools, to produce this chart: A Jury of One's Peers: Ranking Law School Reputatio
Law Librarian Blog took this latest Leiter
ranking of law professor placements, added in Leiter's earlier ranking of law faculties based on scholarly impact, and then lined it all up against the U.S. News & World Report 2008 rankings of the best law schools, to produce this chart: A Jury of One's Peers: Ranking Law School Reput
ranking of law professor placements, added in Leiter's earlier ranking of law faculties based on scholarly impact, and then lined it all up against the U.S. News & World Report 2008 rankings of the best law schools, to produce this chart: A Jury of One's Peers: Ranking Law School Reputatio
law professor placements, added in Leiter's earlier
ranking of law faculties based on scholarly impact, and then lined it all up against the U.S. News & World Report 2008 rankings of the best law schools, to produce this chart: A Jury of One's Peers: Ranking Law School Reput
ranking of law faculties based on scholarly impact, and then lined it all up against the U.S. News & World Report 2008 rankings of the best law schools, to produce this chart: A Jury of One's Peers: Ranking Law School Reputatio
law faculties based on scholarly impact, and then lined it all up against the U.S. News & World Report 2008
rankings of the best
law schools, to produce this chart: A Jury of One's Peers: Ranking Law School Reputatio
law schools, to produce this chart: A Jury
of One's Peers:
Ranking Law School Reput
Ranking Law School Reputatio
Law School Reputations.
«Especially at
law schools in the upper echelons
of the U.S. News & World Report
rankings, the core
of the
faculties seem indifferent or even hostile to the concept
of law school as a professional school with the primary mission
of producing competent practitioners.
Similarly, the endless navel - gazing discussions about teaching pedagogy, exam writing and exam - taking advice, practical credentials for doctrinal
faculty, curricular reform,
law school
rankings, and the very identity and purpose
of a
law school and its relationship to lawyering would benefit from some thought and understanding about the role
of the LRW course.