Supreme Court Justice Calls US News & World Report Law School Rankings 'An Abomination'
In a new interview with The American Spectator, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito suggested U.S. News & World Report's law school rankings are a money-making gimmick.
"I really don't like this categorization of schools as first, second, and third-tier," Alito told the Spectator.
"The U.S. News and World Report rankings of
The conservative justice's attitude about law school rankings is reflected in his choice of clerks. Between 2009 and 2010, only two of his eight clerks graduated from Ivy League law schools, The Spectator reported.
Alito is not the first Supreme Court justice to attack law school rankings or to express a willingness to hire clerks who didn't go to Ivy League schools. Justice Clarence Thomas has said U.S. News' law school rankings encourage bias against grads of lower-ranked schools - a discrimination not unlike that against women and minorities.
Others have criticized U.S. News' rankings, including the Northwestern law professor Steven J. Harper. Harper has complained that much of the ranking depends on surveys sent out to law school deans and faculty members who may not have set foot on the campus of the schools they're rating.
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