Again in 2011, Cooley Legislation College commissioned a regulation faculty rating that positioned the varsity second general, only a shade behind Harvard. That rating is positively scientific in comparison with the outcomes of our annual bracket match.
To recap, a bunch of regulation colleges have bailed on U.S. Information and World Report, refusing to offer key knowledge that the publication makes use of in its rankings. There are loads of causes to criticize USNWR — and we’ve leveled all of these criticisms repeatedly — however a minimum of it’s attempting to place out a data-driven evaluation. With out regulation faculty participation, the following spherical of rankings will lean on public notion and guesstimation, which is a horrible solution to run an trade.
So we had readers vote for the highest regulation faculty in a bracket format to performatively show how silly a vibe-based rating could be. Whereas the USNWR rankings will most definitely parrot previous outcomes (although some fashions recommend necessary shuffling among the many elite colleges) and go everybody’s imprecise scent check, in actuality they don’t shine far more mild on the regulation faculty decision-making course of than this competitors.
With nearly 25 million bot-driven votes, ASS Legislation has gained.
This implies we are able to now create the definitive ordering primarily based on match efficiency with ties damaged by preliminary seeding.
(1) ASS Legislation
(2) Penn
(3) Northwestern
(4) Texas
(5) Harvard
(6) NYU
(7) Berkeley
(8) Georgetown
(9) Stanford
(10) Chicago
(11) Columbia
(12) UVA
(13) Michigan
(14) Duke
(15) Cornell
(16) Wash U.
(17) Yale
(18) UCLA
(19) Boston
(20) Vanderbilt
(21) USC
(22) Florida
(23) Minnesota
(24) BYU
(25) UNC
(26) GWU 25
(27) Alabama
(28) Notre Dame
(29) Iowa
(30) Georgia
(31) William & Mary
(32) ASU
Congratulations. Could God have mercy in your souls.
Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Legislation and co-host of Pondering Like A Lawyer. Be happy to electronic mail any suggestions, questions, or feedback. Observe him on Twitter if you happen to’re all in favour of regulation, politics, and a wholesome dose of school sports activities information. Joe additionally serves as a Managing Director at RPN Government Search.
