Move out of the way Yale! Harvard comes out on top here.

National Law Journal reports.

In This Alternative Universe, Harvard Law Ranks No. 1

Yale Law School has landed at the top of U.S. News & World Report’s annual law school rankings for years, but Harvard Law School reigns supreme on an alternative list released by University of North Carolina School of Law Professor Alfred Brophy.

He set out to create a stripped-down version of the U.S. News formula, which incorporates nearly a dozen factors.

“I thought, ‘Maybe a simpler way of calculating things is better,’ ” Brophy said. “I decluttered it. I’m not looking at library resources or bar-pass rates.”

Brophy counts just three criteria, based on publicly available information: incoming students’ median Law School Admission Test scores; the percentage of recent graduates in full-time legal jobs not funded by the school itself; and the number of citations to the school’s flagship law review during the past seven years.

The LSAT scores capture a school’s selectivity and student quality; the employment figures reflect graduate outcomes and the quality of education they received; and the citations indicate standing in the legal community, Brophy wrote in “Ranking Law Schools, 2015: Student Aptitude, Employment Outcome, Law Review Citations,” posted on the Social Science Research Network.


 
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