Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

5-7-2012

SSRN Discipline

Economics Research Network; Legal Scholarship Network; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; Law & Society eJournals; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; IRPN Subject Matter eJournals; Innovation Areas eJournals; Political Science Network; Innovation Research & Policy Network

Abstract

The director of the US News law school rankings Robert Morse has initiated discussion about how "“ if at all "“ racial diversity should be included in the US News rankings This essay explores the relationship between African American student enrollment and US News peer assessment scores of law schools It explores this first at all ABAapproved law schools and then within tiers of law schools It finds a positive though slight relationship between African American student enrollment and peer assessment scores for the 26 most elite law schools a marginally stronger relationship for the top 103 schools and a slight negative relationship for the remaining schools These findings are supplemented with data on the relationship between schools' US News peer assessment scores and their proportions of Asian American students Hispanic students and minority faculty

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