Indiana To Host April 15 Symposium on The Next Generation of Law School Rankings

Following up on our recent article, What Law Schools Can Learn from Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Texas L. Rev. 1483 (2004), Rafael Gely and I are organizing a symposium on The Next Generation of Law School Rankings to be held at Indiana-Bloomington on April 15, 2005.  Here is the lineup of the paper presenters and their topics, as well as the commentators: 

 

Framing the Rankings Debate

Papers:

• Richard A. Posner (Chicago; 7th Circuit): Evaluating Law School Rankings
• Cass R. Sunstein (Chicago): Rethinking Law Schools: A Market Test?

Commentary:

• Russell Korobkin (UCLA)
• Brian R. Leiter (Texas)

Ranking Methodologies

Papers:

• Scott A. Baker (North Carolina), Stephen Choi (NYU) & Gaurang Mitu Gulati (Georgetown): “Information Forcing” Rationale for Rat Races in Law School Rankings
• Bernard S. Black (Texas) & Paul L. Caron (Cincinnati): The Uses and Limits of SSRN in Measuring Scholarly Impact
• Wendy Espeland (Northwestern) & Michael Sauder (Northwestern): The Benefits of Multiple Evaluations: A Comparison of Law and Business School Rankings
• Tracey E. George (Vanderbilt): Law Schools and the New Legal Science
• William Henderson (Indiana-Bloomington) & Andrew P. Morriss (Case): The Influence of Population Migration on U.S. News Rankings
• Jeffrey E. Stake (Indiana-Bloomington): The Interplay of Rankings Criteria and Their Effects

Commentary:

• Lawrence A. Cunningham (Boston College)
• Theodore Eisenberg (Cornell)
• Hillary Sale (Iowa)
• Michael E. Solimine (Cincinnati)

Other Voices in the Rankings Debate

Papers:

• Alex M. Johnson, Jr. (Dean, Minnesota): Destruction of the Holistic Approach to Admissions: The Pernicious Effect of Rankings
• Gene R. Nichol (Dean, North Carolina): Law Schools, Rankings, and Public Mission
• Nancy B. Rapoport (Dean, Houston): Eating Our Cake and Having It, Too: Why Real Change Is So Difficult in Law Schools

Commentary:

• Rachel F. Moran (Boalt Hall)
• Lauren Robel (Dean, Indiana-Bloomington)

The symposium is made possible through the generous financial support of Foundation Press, Thomson-West, and the Indiana-Bloomington School of Law. Please join us on April 15.