Category: Yale Law School

Media Company Bows To Law Schools’ Boycott of Its Annual Best Report

January 12, 2023
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In reaction to a mass defection of institutions participating in its annual rankings of the best law schools, U.S. News and World Report announced that it will change the methodologies and practices it uses in its evaluations. The media company’s decision is a manifestation of a seismic change in higher education and the legal sector that…

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UC Irvine Law Also Opts Out of ‘Problematic’ US News and World Report Law School Rankings

December 2, 2022
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UC Irvine Law School has joined a growing number of universities opting out of participating in US News and World Report rankings amid claims such are “problematic” to legal education. For decades, the magazine has served a large role in the university ranking industry, comparing over 190 law schools and other institutions across the country,…

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Canceling the Cancelers at Yale Law School

October 14, 2022
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Commentary Last month at the Sixth Annual Kentucky Chapters Conference of the Federalist Society, Judge James C. Ho of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit (disclosure: my former boss) issued a call to arms. Ho, who earlier this year ruffled feathers at Georgetown University Law Center by using the occasion of his…

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