The saga of law schools boycotting the US News and World Report rankings continues with UC-Irvine joining the list. Our most recent post on this topic featured UCLA deciding to boycott the rankings.* The LA Times article on which that blog posting was based has since been updated to note the addition of Irvine. More on Irvine from another source:
UC-Irvine Is First Non-Elite Law School To Join U.S. News Rankings Boycott
Austen Parrish (Dean, UC-Irvine), University of California, Irvine School of Law Withdraws From Participating in U.S. News Annual Law School Rankings:
I write to share our decision to withdraw from participating in the U.S. News & World Report annual law school rankings — a decision that we have not reached lightly. Over the last several days, faculty have met to discuss as a group, and I have had conversations and meetings with staff, student leaders, alumni, and others. With thoughtful feedback and strong encouragement within our community, we will not be submitting proprietary data this year to U.S. News for use in its law school rankings. We are a young school, whose founders in 2008 had a vision for creating an extraordinary public law school. As part of a leading public research university, we committed ourselves to providing exceptional experiential and lawyering skills training, while underscoring the need to understand changes affecting the legal profession, and the value of interdisciplinary approaches to legal problems taught by faculty who are leaders in their fields. In all that we do, we emphasize public service, social justice, and global engagement, and we recruit students who share our vision...
Full story from the TaxProf blog at https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2022/11/uc-irvine-is-first-non-elite-law-school-to-join-us-news-rankings-boycott.html.
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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/11/sometimes-no-us-news-is-good-news-part.html.
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https://ia801402.us.archive.org/25/items/big-ten/irvine%20joins.mp3
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