Legal Research

Law Schools Unlikely to Boycott Magazine Rankings

By jlutz99

The New York Times in the recently published article Some Colleges to Drop Out of U.S. News Rankings  reported that dozens of liberal arts schools are no longer participating in the U.S. News and World Report college rankings. 

The commitment, which some college presidents said was made by a large majority of participants, represents the most significant challenge yet to the rankings, adding colleges like Barnard, Sarah Lawrence and Kenyon to a growing rebellion against the magazine, participants said.

However, Law.com in the article Law Schools Unlikely to Boycott Magazine Rankings reports that a law school boycott is unlikely.

Nancy Rogers, president of the American Association of Law Schools, said that her group was not considering a move similar to that of the Annapolis Group.

"While the AALS believes that any composite rankings system is inherently flawed, the AALS supports the efforts of magazines or other entities to provide information to those interested in pursuing legal education," she said in an e-mail message.

Law schools generally fear the consequences of not participating, Levmore said, especially because the publication could go ahead and include much of the information that is available from the American Bar Association, absent input from the individual schools.

Posted by Jon Lutz

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on June 28, 2007 (boomark / email).