Is Yale Law all it's cracked up to be?- Brian Leiter (Chicago): "The disproportionate number of YLS grads entering law teaching is clearly having a deleterious effect on scholarship and the academy."
- Jason Solomon (Georgia):
Princeton Review survey (scale from 60 to 99) says:
Stanford: Professors Interesting: 98. Professors Accessible: 97.
Chicago: Professors Interesting: 99. Professors Accessible: 90.
Harvard: Professors Interesting: 82. Professors Accessible: 63.
Yale: Professors Interesting: 69. Professors Accessible: 67.So what would I say to the superstar, theoretically-inclined prospective law student? That Yale is at best the third choice for aspiring Supreme Court clerk/law professors, behind Stanford and Chicago, and unless you take a lot of clinical credits, you are not going to get much "value added" to prepare you to practice law either, relative to the education you'd get at other institutions.
Remind me, fellow law professors, lawyers and judges, why do we keep ranking Yale the No. 1 law school in America? Yes, they have a darn good faculty in terms of scholarly productivity and impact -- is the faculty that much better than Stanford and Chicago such that their education can be worse, and they still get a "5" in the rankings survey?
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