A Jury of One's Peers: Ranking Law School Reputations

Brian Leiter has just published Top Producers of New Law Teachers, 2003-2007, a ranking of feeder schools for the legal academy, on Brian Leiter's Law School Rankings [his blog post].

I thought it might be interesting to create a table displaying data from Table II. Total Placement in Law Teaching, 2003-2007 of this study and Table III: Ranking of Law Faculties by Mean and Median Per Capita Citations of his Top 35 Law Faculties Based on Scholarly Impact, 2000-2007, alongside the Top 20 Law Schools from the dreaded 2008 USN&WR Law School Rankings (displaying overall and academic peer assessment scores). Here it is, click to enlarge the display:

No profound comments but a reminder ... the online edition of USN&WR's 2009 Law School Rankings will be launched on March 28, 2008; pre-order it now for the number-crunchers! [JH]