Legal Commentary

Follow the Bouncing Ball?

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

According to this unofficial source U.Miami Law's US News Score jumped 11 points this year, raising us to a tie for 60th place. If that's true, it's good news for the school, especially following last year's jump of 11 points. Whatever the actual merits, a 22 point rise in two years will help both student and faculty recruiting, and will be good for student morale.

As I have written before, the idea of ranking, or at least clumping, law schools is a good one; the US News system is a very bad one.

Yet, oddly, the jump in Miami's rankings may represent something real: because we have such a small endowment, we are in a particularly good position in this recession. We have a new marquee Dean, and we have been doing some great hiring, and expect to do more.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on April 14, 2010 (boomark / email).