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By Tony Varona[*] Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs at the American University Washington College of Law
U.S. News and World Report recently released its law school rankings[1] and, as happens every year, readers have focused almost exclusively on the many extreme fluctuations in ranks. Why did Schools A, B and C suddenly jump 20 spots? Did the learning experience at Schools X, Y and Z really erode so dramatically as to justify their 25-spot freefall? What will this big drop (or climb) mean for student and faculty recruitment, and alumni employment rates, at these schools?
N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social Change 