Volume 81: Issue 1

Indiana Law Journal
Volume 81: Issue 1
Winter 2006
SYMPOSIUM:THE NEXT GENERATION OF LAW SCHOOL RANKINGS
Introduction
Dead Poets and Academic Progenitors: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings
Paul L. Caron and Rafael Gely
Framing the Rankings Debate
Law School Rankings
Richard A. Posner Ranking Law Schools: A Market Test?
Cass R. Sunstein

Harnessing the Positive Power of Rankings: A Response to Posner and Sunstein
Russell Korobkin

How To Rank Law Schools
Brian Leiter

Rankings Methodologies
The Rat Race as an Information-Forcing Device
Scott Baker, Stephen J. Choi, and Mitu Gulati Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance
Bernard S. Black and Paul L. Caron

An Empirical Study of Empirical Legal Scholarship: The Top Law Schools
Tracey E. George

Student Quality as Measured by LSAT Scores: Migration Patterns in the U.S. News Rankings Era
William D. Henderson and Andrew P. Morriss

Strength in Numbers? The Advantages of Multiple Rankings
Michael Sauder and Wendy Nelson Espeland

The Interplay Between Law School Rankings, Reputations, and Resource Allocation: Ways Rankings Mislead
Jeffrey Evans Stake

Scholarly Profit Margins: Reflections on the Web
Lawrence A. Cunningham

Assessing the SSRN-Based Law School Rankings
Theodore Eisenberg

Segmented Rankings For Segmented Markets
Rafael Gely

Status Seeking and the Allure and Limits of Law School Rankings
Michael E. Solimine

Other Voices in the Rankings Debate
The Destruction of the Holistic Approach to Admissions: The Pernicious Effects of Rankings
Alex M. Johnson, Jr. Eating Our Cake and Having It, Too: Why Real Change Is So Difficult in Law Schools
Nancy B. Rapoport

How the Blogs Saved Law School: Why a Diversity of Voices Will Undermine the U.S. News & World Report Rankings
Sam Kamin

Of Rankings and Regulation: Are the U.S. News & World Report Rankings Really a Subversive Force in Legal Education?
Rachel F. Moran

Assessing What Matters in Law School: The Law School Survey of Student Engagement
Patrick T. 0’Day and George D. Kuh

NOTES
How the Xechem Decision May Insulate State Universities From Correction of Inventorship Suits
Stacey Drews All Mixed Up: Bridgeport Music v. Dimension Films and De Minimis Digital Sampling
Jennifer R. R. Mueller