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11 Calif. L. Rev. Online 1 (2020-2021)

handle is hein.journals/callro11 and id is 1 raw text is: Finally, a Use for the U.S. News Law School Rankings Noah C. Chauvin* The U.S. News & World Report law school rankings are highly influential among people applying to law school. Nonetheless, they are widely panned among the legal community for the often-arbitrary criteria they use to distinguish between law schools. In this essay, I seek to rescue the rankings from this derision by proposing a novel use for them: picking the winner of college football games against the spread. I report the results of an experiment in which I applied this method, and briefly discuss what these exciting new findings will mean for the future of the U.S. News rankings and their reputation in the legal community. I. Introduction .............................................................................................1 II. T h e M eth od ..................................................................................... . . 2 III. Results and Conclusions .......................................................................5 I. INTRODUCTION The US. News & World Report law school rankings are among the most panned means for determining the relative quality of the United States' institutions of legal education. So controversial are the U.S. News rankings that there is a veritable cottage industry of law review articles debating their value.' It is not that the legal world is opposed to ranking law schools per se. There are a host of rankings available, and one law review even held an entire symposium DOI: https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38SQ8QJ2D Copyright © 2020 Author holds copyrights. * Matt Strauser and Kyle Wood share the blame for the fact that this piece exists. Sammy Block and Natasha Geiling deserve credit for the fact that it contains stronger arguments and far fewer typos, confusing sentences, and citation mistakes than it used to. All remaining errors and all views are strictly my own. 1. See Theodore P. Seto, Understanding the U.S. News Law School Rankings, 60 SMU L. REV. 493, 493-94 & n.1 (2007). 1

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