Academic

Maybe Law Schools Should Hold A Draft

By Richard Gershon

The NFL draft began last night, and continues through today and tomorrow.  The draft is designed to create as much balance in the league as possible. Accordingly, the team with the worst record from the previous season has the opportunity to pick the best player available in the draft.

Maybe law school rankings, which are otherwise generally worthless, should be used to establish a system of faculty hiring.  The school ranked lowest by US News would be entitled to draft the best prospect from the AALS Faculty Recruitment Conference.  Top rated schools would have to wait until the end to make their choices.  Of course, it would never work because some schools would cheat on their numbers to achieve a lower ranking.

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on April 23, 2010 (boomark / email).