{"id":529283,"date":"2010-04-15T22:50:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T02:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=12026"},"modified":"2010-04-15T22:50:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T02:50:29","slug":"changes-in-the-u-s-news-international-law-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/529283","title":{"rendered":"Changes in the U.S. News International Law Rankings?"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Duncan Hollis <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Today,\u00a0U.S. News & World Report (USN&WR) officially released its 2011 rankings of American law schools.\u00a0 This, in turn, led the legal\u00a0blogosphere into its\u00a0annual love-hate dance with the “overall<\/a>” rankings–pouring over every move up or down the ladder, while simultaneously denouncing the ranking’s methodology and utility.\u00a0 Lest our readers feel left out, I thought I’d flag the “new” International Law rankings<\/a>\u00a0that accompany the overall tiering.\u00a0 NYU leads the pack, which actually seems quite sensible.\u00a0 Although NYU lost a\u00a0truly tremendous figure in Thomas Franck last year,\u00a0it hired Jos\u00e9 Alvarez and Ryan Goodman to join the likes of Philip Alston, David Golove, Robert Howse, Benedict Kingsbury, Mattias Kumm, Andy Lowenfeld, Linda Silberman, and Joseph Weiler (and that’s only a partial listing of NYU’s international law faculty<\/a>, not to mention their global visitors, clinicians, and institute folks who also spend time working on international legal issues there).\u00a0<\/p>\n

I’ll leave to others to decide what to make of the remainder of the top 10 that’s available on the USN&WR website<\/a>.\u00a0 What I wanted to call attention to was the “premium”\u00a0access list (i.e., the list for paying customers).\u00a0 It details a fuller ranking of U.S. international law programs (here, for example, is where you’ll find my institution–Temple–coming in at No. 12, tied with Berkeley).\u00a0 There’s something different, however,\u00a0about the premium list this year.\u00a0 In the past, USN&WR used it to list the “top 25″ international law programs.\u00a0 This year, the list stops at 15 (actually 17 given tie scores).\u00a0 What gives?\u00a0 Was this a calculated effort by USN&WR to change the scope and value of these specialty rankings? Was it the result of some problems with the survey data (I believe these rankings are done almost entirely\u00a0based on peer evaluations) that precluded offering a longer list?\u00a0 Or, was it a result of some other methodological shift?\u00a0 I couldn’t find anything on the USN&WR site that explained the change.\u00a0 As a result, I’d welcome thoughts from\u00a0readers on the topic.\u00a0 In doing so, I’ll also open up the thread to more general comments about the accuracy, utility, and value (or lack of any of the foregoing) in ranking international law programs at U.S. law schools.<\/p>\n

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by Duncan Hollis Today,\u00a0U.S. News & World Report (USN&WR) officially released its 2011 rankings of American law schools.\u00a0 This, in turn, led the legal\u00a0blogosphere into its\u00a0annual love-hate dance with the “overall” rankings–pouring over every move up or down the ladder, while simultaneously denouncing the ranking’s methodology and utility.\u00a0 Lest our readers feel left out, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}