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Wider den Rankingwahn

blockquoteAs the head of a major customer of American law schools, I am concerned about the impact of U.S. News amp; World Report's annual law school ranking.br / br / The ranking sells magazines. It generates heat, not light. In the legal industry, we're used to this art form — a magazine develops a ranking using a questionable approach, lets loose with this year's version and then starts reporting on its own pseudo-news as if it's something to which we should pay attention. For the most part, it's not.br / br / I have two major gripes with the U.S. News phenomenon./blockquotea href=http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202426808461 Pete Kalis über den Fluch des USNWR-Über-Rankings/a.br /

Full post as published by jurabilis - German bLAWg from Berlin. on December 21, 2008 (boomark / email).