From this morning’s Lansing State Journal:
In the most recent edition of “Judging the Law Schools,” Thomas M. Cooley Law School is ranked No. 2 in the nation, second to Harvard but solidly ahead of Yale (which came in 10th), the University of Michigan (12th) and Stanford (30th).
It is the first time Cooley has cracked the top 10. The last time the rankings were released, in 2009, it came in at No. 12. In 1996, the year Cooley founder Thomas Brennan began producing Judging the Law Schools, it ranked a modest 72nd.
In the ranking’s introduction, Brennan and Don LeDuc, Cooley’s president and dean, write
that while total objectivity is not possible in any comparison and that the selection of criteria on which to base a comparison is itself subjective, Judging was designed intentionally to use only objective data in its comparison. …
The intent is to provide an objective, data-based alternative to the subjectivity of the U.S. News and World Report rankings.
Cooley is “unranked” in the 2010 U.S. News and World Report rankings. The publication explains that “School did not supply enough information to U.S. News to calculate a ranking.”
Cooley’s methodology and complete rankings are contained in
Judging the Law Schools.
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