Understanding the U.S. News Law School Rankings
SMU Law Review Volume 60 Issue 2 Article 6 2007 Understanding the U.S. News Law School Rankings Theodore P. Seto Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.smu.edu/smulr Recommended Citation Theodore P. Seto, Understanding the U.S. News Law School Rankings, 60 SMU L. REV. 493 (2007) https://scholar.smu.edu/smulr/vol60/iss2/6 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at SMU Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in SMU Law Review by an authorized administrator of SMU Scholar. For more information, please visit http://digitalrepository.smu.edu. UNDERSTANDING THE U.S. NEws LAW SCHOOL RANKINGS Theodore P. Seto* UCH has been written on whether law schools can or should be ranked and on the U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT ("U.S. NEWS") rankings in particular.' Indeed, in 1997, one hundred *Professor, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. The author is very grateful for the comments, too numerous to mention, given in response to his SSRN postings. He wants to give particular thanks to his wife, Professor Sande Buhai, for her patience in bearing with the unique agonies of numerical analysis. 1. See, e.g., Michael Ariens, Law School Brandingand the Future of Legal Education, 34 ST. MARY'S L. J. 301 (2003); Arthur Austin, The Postmodern Buzz in Law School Rank- ings, 27 VT. L. REv. 49 (2002); Scott Baker et al., The Rat Race as an Information-Forcing Device, 81 IND. L. J. 53 (2006); Mitchell Berger, Why the U.S. News & World Report Law School Rankings Are Both Useful and Important, 51 J.
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