2008 Rankings T100, T3, T4

[basal]

Thanks for this post.

What makes you think this is the real deal?

[Special Agent Dana Scully]

Thanks for this post.

What makes you think this is the real deal?

HEY!! 

Several trustworthy LSDers saw the rankings online (they paid for them).  Also, some people have seen the physical proof at bookstores.

[basal]

Thanks for this post.

What makes you think this is the real deal?

HEY!! 

Several trustworthy LSDers saw the rankings online (they paid for them).  Also, some people have seen the physical proof at bookstores.

HOORAY!!!!!! THANKS MCB AS ALWAYS.

(lets k.i.t through facebook )

[iscoredawaitlist]

Interesting how the lesser ranked schools get the better of more elite schools in this category.

Too bad specialty rankings don't mean anything.

Yeah I've heard that for months now - the disparity between them and the main rankings just backs that up. Mercer trumping Michigan is a little hard to believe in any ranking though - well except Cooley's perhaps, they would of course give extra weight to the square footage of the writing center.

 

I believe Leiter said on his blog (in reference to Cooley rankings) that any ranking without Chicago in the top 5 is not to be trusted.  Well.  I guess USNWR can no longer be trusted.

I think Leiter would probably agree with you here.

[watso059]

What about the Trial Advocacy speciality rankings??

[LAser1997]

I'm very impressed by how UC Hastings did this year; a 7-point jump from #43 to #36. Now, it's only two spots below UC Davis and tied with UNC. This makes me even more excited to apply there in November.

[FSUGeoff]

FIU debuts in T3!

[umass22]

uh oh, Miami went from 65 to 70, i can't go there anymore now. 

[flyaway]

Can anyone post the International Law rankings?

[.....]

Specialty ranking often place lesser-ranked schools above higher-ranked schools because of the methodology used. It's strictly reputational. The question in the survey asks respondents to select schools which they think/have heard posess good programs in the area.

This lends itself toward selection of schools where the reputation of the special program is most widely disparate from the reputation of the school as a whole.

This is especially true of speciality rankings in areas that aren't really practice areas in and of themselves (legal writing, trial advocacy).

This is why Stetson is found to outrank Harvard in trial advocacy. That doesn't mean that an aspiring trial lawyer coming out of Stetson will compete favorably with one coming out of Harvard. Quite the opposite.