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ABA Report on US News and World Report Rankings

By Dallas Association of Law Librarians

The ABA commissioned a report on the issue of the U.S. News and World Report Rankings. Below is a snippet from the first page of the 65 page report and bibliography.

July 15, 2010

Report of the Special Committee on the U.S. News and World Report Rankings

Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar

Hon. Martha Daughtrey (United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit); Tracy Giles (Giles & Lambert); Dean Phoebe Haddon (University of Maryland School of Law); Pauline A. Schneider (Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe); Dean Kent Syverud (Washington University School of Law)(chair).

On February 17, 2010, ABA President Carolyn Lamm asked the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar to examine rankings of law schools. She did so to follow through on a Resolution of the ABA House of Delegates that the ABA ?examine any efforts to publish national, state, territorial, and local rankings of law firms and law schools.? American law schools have many years of experience with rankings, and the Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, under chair Jerome C. Hafter, has endeavored to help the ABA leadership and the House of Delegates to benefit from that experience ? particularly as that experience may predict how new rankings might affect law firms and the legal profession. To that end, Mr. Hafter appointed this special committee of members of the Council of the Section to report on the history and impact of rankings of American law schools.

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Full post as published by Lex Scripta on August 10, 2010 (boomark / email).