Gaming Law School US News Rankings: A Sociological Perspective

Submitted by elmer on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 2:46am.

In The Discipline of Rankings: Tight Coupling and Organizational Change, sociology professors Michael Sauder (Iowa) and Wendy Nelson Espeland (Northwestern) contend that law schools' gaming US News rankings end up perpetuating a system they dislike. Here's the abstract:This article demonstrates...