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
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