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More: US News Specialty Rankings And Assorted Blog Commentary

By Dan Filler

The US News rankings of law school specialties appears to be here.  It might fairly be entitled "Trading Places" because the number 1 and 2 ranked schools have switched places in the environmental, IP, international, and legal writing categories.  FWIW.  And that's probably not a lot.

Around the professorial web, here are what folks are saying.   Brian Leiter lists schools in rank order of academic and practioner rankings here.  Paul Caron describes vertical movement of Top 100 schools here and creates a top-to-bottom reputational ranking here. Tom Smith touts San Diego's "soaring" ranking here.  Stephen Bainbridge notes that UCLA has cracked the Top 15 here.  Rick Garnett puzzles about the relationship between peer assessment and lawyer assessment scores (as well as possible political skew) here.

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on April 20, 2009 (boomark / email).