CHAPTER SIX 



2011 RANKINGS
CHAPTER SUMMARY

 
  • Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
              Albert Einstein (1879-1955), attributed
    From the Notices of the American Mathematical Society 53(2006)1049.
  • Number rules the universe. The Pythagoreans
  • Everything is number. The Pythagoreans
  • Wherever there is number, there is beauty.  Proclus (AD 410-485) 
  • In the April 2009 issue of U.S. News & World Report, USN gave an ordering of their 2010 TOP 50 and their TOP 51-102 law schools. Also given, but unordered, were their TIER 3 (ranking 103-139) and their TIER 4 (ranking 140-184) law schools.
     
  • For NINE SPECIALTIES, U S News & World Report gives their ranking of the top ten in that specialty.
     
  • Read about THE TOP FORTY LAW SCHOOLS OF THE NINETIES and THE TOP FORTY LAW SCHOOLS OF THIS MILLENIUM.
     
  • The original US News Law School Ranking ranked the TOP TWENTY (1987). The top ten and the top sixteen of the November 1987 ranking of law schools are the same (albeit their order has changed). 
     
  • We make some suggestions for IMPROVING RANKINGS.

 

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