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April 14, 2021 at 1:10 PM
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The latest U.S. News and World Report law school rankings stumbled into our laps earlier this month. We say, “stumbled” as the release was marked by multiple last-minute edits to the methodology. Nothing instills confidence like changing the whole formula three times in the last weeks!
But putting aside public flops like the failed diversity rankings or the deep methodological concerns that drive our own Top 50 Law Schools ranking, there’s actually a lot about the U.S. News Rankings that are wrong even if you accept their own methodological choices. Professor Corey Rayburn Yung of the University of Kansas School of Law decided to break down the latest USNWR rankings without fundamentally altering their assumptions. In other words, to interrogate the rankings on their own terms.