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Some more takes on US News, Peer and Lawyer/Judge Assessments

By propertyprof

While I should be working on my comments about Justices Catron and McLean for a conference on "neglected justices" I'm going to at the end of the week, I'm thinking about the US News peer and lawyer/judge assessments.  (Yeah, there may be good reasons why Catron and McLean are neglected--more the former than the later.  More on this next week, perhaps.)

My first take was focused on the top 104 schools.  Let's look at this a little more, with some descriptive statistics on peer assessments and lawyer/judge assessments for each U.S. News tier.  (I divided Tier 1, as U.S. News used to do, into two categories, with the new Tier 1 consisting of the 50 top-ranked schools and Tier 2 consisting of the remaining 54 schools in the official Tier 1.)  Check out the this this table .

Assessments are negatively related to Tier.  That?s no surprise, because U.S.News uses assessments as a determinant?in fact, a major determinant?of Tier. 

Don't you love ranking season?  Lots of stuff to blog about.   But don't get too used to seeing me; I'm about to leave the faculty lounge, to go back into my office.

Alfred Brophy

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on March 31, 2008 (boomark / email).