{"id":84045,"date":"2022-11-17T15:53:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T20:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=84045"},"modified":"2022-11-29T13:48:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:48:04","slug":"yale-and-harvards-law-schools-are-ditching-the-u-s-news-rankings-will-others-follow-diep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/11\/17\/yale-and-harvards-law-schools-are-ditching-the-u-s-news-rankings-will-others-follow-diep\/","title":{"rendered":"Yale and Harvard\u2019s Law Schools Are Ditching the \u2018U.S. News\u2019 Rankings. Will Others Follow? [Diep]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/yale-and-harvards-law-schools-are-ditching-the-u-s-news-rankings-will-others-follow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Yale and Harvard\u2019s Law Schools Are Ditching the \u2018U.S. News\u2019 Rankings. Will Others Follow?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from chronicle.com by Francie Diep<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Yale Law School \u2014 long ranked No. 1 by\u00a0U.S. News &amp; World Report\u00a0\u2014 is quitting the magazine\u2019s rankings, it announced Wednesday. Hours after that announcement, which was\u00a0first reported\u00a0by\u00a0The Wall Street Journal,\u00a0Harvard Law School said\u00a0it would do the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cU.S. News\u00a0stands in the way of progress for legal education and the profession,\u201d said Heather Gerken, Yale Law School\u2019s dean. \u201cIt\u2019s made it harder for law schools to admit and support low-income students, and it\u2019s undermining efforts to launch a generation to serve. Now is the time to take a step.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Also related\/see:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/berkeley-joins-harvard-yale-boycott-202439989.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Berkeley joins Harvard and Yale boycott of U.S. News law school rankings<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from news.yahoo.com by Karen Sloan<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/harvard-law-school-yale-law-school-leaving-us-news-and-world-report-law-school-rankings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Harvard and Yale law schools ditch U.S. News &amp; World Report&#8217;s rankings: &#8220;Profoundly flawed&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from cbsnews.com by Aimee Picchi<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/law.yale.edu\/yls-today\/news\/dean-gerken-why-yale-law-school-leaving-us-news-world-report-rankings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Dean Gerken: Why Yale Law School Is Leaving the U.S. News &amp; World Report Rankings<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from law.yale.edu<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highereddive.com\/news\/Berkeley-Columbia-Georgetown-law-rejects-us-news-list-join-harvard-yale\/636971\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>More law schools reject U.S. News list, but publication pledges to keep ranking \u2018regardless of whether schools agree\u2019<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from highereddive.com by Rick Seltzer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Some other legal-related items include:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iaals.du.edu\/blog\/iaals-releases-new-allied-legal-professionals-landscape-report-and-resource-center-effort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>IAALS Releases New Allied Legal Professionals Landscape Report and Resource Center in an Effort to Increase Legal Options for the Public<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; iaals.du.edu<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver, announced today that it released its new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iaals.du.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/publications\/landscape_allied_legal_professionals.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><i>Allied Legal Professionals<\/i>\u00a0landscape report<\/a>, along with an accompanying\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iaals.du.edu\/projects\/allied-legal-professionals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">online Knowledge Center<\/a>. With generous support from the Sturm Family Foundation, this project seeks to help standardize a new tier of legal professionals nationally, with the goal of increasing the options for accessible and affordable legal help for the public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cToday, the\u00a0<i>majority\u00a0<\/i>of Americans are faced with a very serious access to justice problem\u2014not only low-income populations, as many people believe. And the pandemic has only made matters worse in recent years,&#8221; says\u00a0Jim Sandman, chair of IAALS\u2019 board of advisors\u00a0and President Emeritus of the Legal Services Corporation. \u201cFor example, studies show that around 40\u201360% of the middle class have legal needs that remain unmet. Simply put: people want legal help, and they are not getting the help they need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artificiallawyer.com\/2022\/11\/14\/legal-innovators-an-ecosystem-of-change-agents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Legal Innovators: An Ecosystem of Change Agents!<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from artificiallawyer.com<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artificiallawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-14-at-07.34.27-2-2048x1233.png\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalevolution.org\/2022\/11\/the-expanding-role-of-legal-technology-338\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>The expanding role of technology in the law firm business model (338)<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from legalevolution.org by\u00a0Kenneth Jones<br \/>\n<em>Legal technology is slowly becoming core to the legal business. It\u2019s time to commit to a cross-functional team approach.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The premise of this post is that individual capabilities and\u00a0excellence (either legal or technical) standing alone are not enough to ensure long-term, sustainable success.\u00a0 No superstar technologist or lawyer is equipped to do it all, as there are too many specialties and functional roles which need to be filled.\u00a0 Rather, a better approach is to construct team-based, cross-functional units that offer greater operational efficiency while building in layers of redundancy that reduce the potential for surprises, errors, or disruption.\u00a0 Cf\u00a0Post 323\u00a0(Patrick McKenna\u2019s \u201crules of engagement\u201d\u00a0for high-performing legal teams).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yale and Harvard\u2019s Law Schools Are Ditching the \u2018U.S. News\u2019 Rankings. Will Others Follow? &#8212; from chronicle.com by Francie Diep Excerpt: Yale Law School \u2014 long ranked No. 1 by\u00a0U.S. News &amp; World Report\u00a0\u2014 is quitting the magazine\u2019s rankings, it announced Wednesday. Hours after that announcement, which was\u00a0first reported\u00a0by\u00a0The Wall Street Journal,\u00a0Harvard Law School said\u00a0it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[832,180,825,837,833,830,285,480,293,38,321,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-justice","category-innovation","category-law-schools","category-legal-operations","category-legal-reform","category-legal-technologies","category-legislation-legislatures","category-society","category-sociology","category-uk","category-united-states","category-using-teams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84045"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84218,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84045\/revisions\/84218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}