{"id":3837,"date":"2021-04-28T07:44:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T11:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/glj-online\/glj-online-vol-110\/of-law-school-rankings-disparity-and-football\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:13:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:13:35","slug":"of-law-school-rankings-disparity-and-football","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/submit\/glj-online\/glj-online-vol-110\/of-law-school-rankings-disparity-and-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Law School Rankings, Disparity, and Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. News &amp; World Report (USNWR) <i>announced in February 2019 its intention to debut its new ranking measuring the scholarly impact of law schools\u2019 faculty members. In producing the ranking, <\/i>USNWR <i>has collaborated with William S. Hein &amp; Co., Inc., which specializes in distributing legal periodicals to \u201clink the names of each individual law school\u2019s faculty to citations and publications that were published in the previous five years and are available in HeinOnline, an online database with more than 2,600 legal periodicals.\u201d From these data, <\/i>USNWR <i>plans to create and publish a \u201ccomprehensive scholarly impact ranking of law schools.\u201d However, this ranking has yet to be printed, allowing legal academics to challenge the notion that we need it at all.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>This new ranking of scholarly impact is as interesting as it is problematic. In this Article, I unpack a few of the problems inherent in the newly proposed ranking of scholarly impact. Because I am starved for sports in this COVID-19 world, I do so through the analogy of football penalties. Part I describes what rankings of law schools should do and where they fall short. Part II examines the potential effect of the proposed <\/i>USNWR <i>scholarly impact ranking, focusing on the inequalities that they are sure to perpetuate. Part III continues by discussing whom rankings of law schools are for\u2014or whom should they be for. Finally, this Article concludes with suggestions about how scholarly impact rankings could be improved, and if not improved, ignored.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Continue reading <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/04\/Ryan_Of-Law-School-Rankings-Disparity-and-Football.pdf\">Of Law School Rankings, Disparity, and Football<\/a><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. News &amp; World Report (USNWR) announced in February 2019 its intention to debut its new ranking measuring the scholarly impact of law schools\u2019 faculty members. In producing the ranking, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5086,"featured_media":0,"parent":842,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-3837","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3844,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3837\/revisions\/3844"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}