The Emerging Importance of Law Review Rankings for Law School Rankings, 2003-07

New York Law School Law Review

Using Social Data for Personalizing Review Rankings

Almost all users look at online ratings and reviews before buying a product, visiting a business, or using a service. These reviews are independent, authored by other users, and thus may convey useful information to the end user. Reviews usually have an overall rating, but most of the times there are sub-texts in the review body that describe certain features/aspects of the product. The majorit...

Law (for Non-Law School Students) (LW)

LW 1200. How Lawyers Think: An Introduction to American Legal Thought. 4 Hours. Introduces students to legal analysis by exploring the history of American legal thought. Perhaps more than any other, American society is governed by lawyers. Explores how innovations in legal theory both emerged from and helped shape policy responses to some of America’s biggest governance challenges, including ec...

Law (for Non-Law School Students) (LW)

LW 1200. How Lawyers Think: An Introduction to American Legal Thought. 4 Hours. Introduces students to legal analysis by exploring the history of American legal thought. Perhaps more than any other, American society is governed by lawyers. Explores how innovations in legal theory both emerged from and helped shape policy responses to some of America’s biggest governance challenges, including ec...

The Longevity of Rankings

Whenever we use Google’s search engine, shop for bargains on Amazon, or evaluate a colleague through citation measures such as the h-index, we are relying on rankings to bring order into large and complex datasets. We would be much better at making decisions if we could thoroughly understand the mechanisms that drive these rankings. Can we trust a ranking system to point out the items of highes...