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[quote=Anonymous]I think the real issue is that the rankings don’t encourage the schools to change.  When a huge chunk of your rankings is from peer reviews (law professors), they rank based on what they know.  What do law professors know?  Law review articles.  So you need to hire professors that publish respected law review articles, even if (a) those law review articles are useless outside academia and (b) don’t have any practically legal skills to pass on to their students.

Yale is ironically okay because the current law school teaching method really only prepares you for appeals level clerkships (somewhat).  Schools really need to change to teach the NYU crowd how to draft commercial agreements and the WVUs trail skills to be ADAs and public defenders and UF students how to draft trust language and probate.  Instead, every school teaches you (and tests you on) how to be an appeals clerk.  Especially considering the cost and time involved.  If you want to keep the teaching theoretical, at least make it a UG major.[/quote]

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