The Case Against Transparency
The Case Against Transparency in doudoune moncler Law School Rankings Methodology
News law school rankings is upon us. As usual, legal academics almost uniformly criticize the rankings, while their schools restructure themselves to achieve better results in those same rankings.
I don think it is possible to overstate the damage this cycle causes. News, yet most schools seem to make very substantive decisions primarily with an eye to increasing their standing in one factor or another that is measured by the rankings. For example, financial aid is often used to increase the LSAT numbers of incoming students, rather than to increase diversity or to
moncler femme help students with true financial need. News voters they do to support the production of that scholarship. Some schools, it seems, are just lying about things like employment numbers. News rankings-- the rankings themselves, and the way we have reacted to them. We, as legal academics, control only the latter, and we have shown very little discipline in that area. Because we do not seem able to resist the urge to manipulate our programs to fit the rankings criteria, perhaps we would be better off if the rankings criteria were unknown. While the rankings would still exist with all their problems, this would curtail the unfortunate reactions at too many law schools.
The cost non-transparency is obvious-- we would lose the ability to effectively criticize the rankings methodology. This is a legitimate concern. News seems unwilling either to cease production of cash-cow rankings or substantively change the formula. It could be that the cost of losing our ability to issue criticism is worth the gain of retrieving our integrity.
Sadly, the moment for non-transparency has probably passed. News stopped telling us, today, they calculate the rankings, the games would continue under the assumption that roughly the methodology was being used. News fails as a business enterprise and the rankings is up by another entity, it may be an opportunity to re-start the process. (I know some would hope that the rankings would just go away at that point, but that ignores economic realities). A committee including leading critics could be brought together to come up with the formula, which then would be kept secret.
In nearly all things, I am for transparency. However, I am wondering if this is a unique situation where transparency does more harm than good.
-- Mark Osler
1) The most valid ranking is the salary of the alumni at various years out of school. That average salary is the objective measure of the value of the lawyer by the public. Academic lawyers are to be included in this group. If their salaries are low compared to their skills it is because what they do is worthless to the public.
2) A separate rating should be provided for public sector employees, whose salaries are limited. The size of the budget of the lawyer public agency for which they have responsibility is a measure of their skill and value to the public.
3) A third category is optional. The earnings or the size of the
Moncler Doudoune Femme enterprise that does no do lawyer work. So a lawyer heads a talent agency, not lawyer work, but still dependent somewhat on the law school education. He makes $5 million a year, a high partner makes $2 million in legal fees. These are comparable if the amount the public sincerest valuation.
The current rankings are biased
Doudoune Moncler Homme avec chapeau zip gris toward the current criminal cult enterprise hierarchy. People rate by the number of names they recognize from self-promoting publications and symposia.
This ranking has some validity as the one that points to the most damaging lawyers in the country and their cult indoctrinators. It makes an excellent arrest list rather than a list of the best of anything. The schools at the top need to be scrutinized, defunded, lose their tax exempt status, sued by multiple classes for the damage they do, and shut down by federal marshals for their treason and insurrection against the constitution. News rankings-- the rankings themselves, and the way we have reacted to them. We, as legal academics, control only the latter, and we have shown very little discipline in that area. Because we do not seem able to resist the urge to manipulate our programs to fit the rankings criteria, perhaps we would be better off if the rankings criteria were unknown. If you are at a poor institution, or if your President does not value his law school (because he hates lawyers, or because we don generate federal grant money) then there is not much you can do to maintain or improve your ranking. And if your President does deliver the buckazoids, he or she will insist on a tuition hike. This will make your second or third tier school less competitive, and put your students further in debt. A scholarship program may do well to help ease the burden of educational fees. But this lack of transparency is truly an issue that must be addressed. Rankings indicate the level of competency in law schools, and these are determining factors which can affect the choice of prospective law students
by: may chen
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