15% of the U.S. News ranking of law schools is based on a survey of attorneys and judges. But according to a colleague from Rutgers, "The New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts has just issued a directive forbidding NJ judges from participating in the US News annual ranking survey." It would be wonderful if other jurisdictions followed suit, since the survey is sloppily conducted and geographically skewed. The worthlessness of the results would be made very clear if significant numbers of jurisdictions barred their judges from participating. As it stands, of course, removing the New Jersey judges from the pool will simply penalize the New Jersey law schools, which are, presumably, rated more highly by New Jersey judges than judges in neighboring jurisdictions.
UPDATE: Paul Caron has more details here.
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