Sometimes No (US) News is Good News - Part 8 (Davis

Thursday, December 01, 2022

As we have noted in earlier blog postings, not all law schools are going along with the wave of non-participation in the US News and World Report listings. But another UC law school has decided to cease participating. From the Sacramento Bee:

UC Davis School of Law will no longer participate in the influential US News & World Report rankings, a move that follows similar announcements by other top law schools that have criticized the magazine’s methodology as misleading and flawed. Dean Kevin Johnson announced the school’s decision on Monday, saying it followed consultations with faculty, campus leadership, students and alumni...

Johnson said that the failures in the ranking are too many to list, but said the process punishes schools for encouraging public service fellowships, overemphasizes standardized test scores, and fails to take resources at public law schools into consideration...

Full story at https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article269401677.html.

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