Could Hastings accomplish what NYU did.

Graduate School Law School
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<p>From Leiter Report</p>

<p>Ten Highest Paid University of California Law Faculty</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Michael Schill (Dean, UCLA)</p></li>
<li><p>Neil Netanel (UCLA)</p></li>
<li><p>Mark Grady (UCLA)</p></li>
<li><p>Daniel Farber (Berkeley)</p></li>
<li><p>Katherine van Wezel Stone (UCLA)</p></li>
<li><p>Christopher Edley (Dean, Berkeley)</p></li>
<li><p>Daniel Rubinfeld (Berkeley)</p></li>
<li><p>Robert Cooter (Berkeley)</p></li>
<li><p>Melvin Eisenberg (Berkeley)</p></li>
<li><p>Rachel Moran (Berkeley)</p></li>
</ol>

<p>In terms of 2004-05 salaries, if we exclude the two Deans who made the list (Christopher Edley at Berkeley, who earned $280,000, and Michael Schill at UCLA who earned $266,000), here are the ten law professors with the highest salaries in the UC system (rounded to the nearest thousand):</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Mark Grady (UCLA) (225)</p></li>
<li><p>Stephen Yeazell (UCLA) (220)</p></li>
<li><p>Richard Abel (UCLA) (215)</p></li>
<li><p>Joel Handler (UCLA) (215)</p></li>
<li><p>Grant Nelson (UCLA) (210)</p></li>
<li><p>Robert Hillman (UC Davis) (208)</p></li>
<li><p>Melvin Eisenberg (Berkeley) (201)</p></li>
<li><p>Daniel Rubinfeld (Berkeley) (201)</p></li>
<li><p>Jesse Choper (Berkeley) (198)</p></li>
<li><p>Daniel Farber (Berkeley) (198)</p></li>
</ol>

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<p>This is sort of interesting. Is there any particular reason you're posting this besides to inform of salary amount for top-paid faculty?</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.yale.edu/career/students/gradprof/lawschool/media/statistics2004.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.yale.edu/career/students/gradprof/lawschool/media/statistics2004.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Yale graduates entering Law Schools</p>

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<p>^Why do you keep posting these totally unrelated things?</p>

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<p>I though this is interesting</p>

<p><a href="http://www.deloggio.com/usnews/usnews.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.deloggio.com/usnews/usnews.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Every March (or thereabouts), USNews publishes a new list of the best law schools, based on a large number of criteria, some more relevant than others. Every April, chaos ensues. </p>

<p>One year Stanford was accidentally listed as higher than Harvard (or was it the reverse?). The school that was slighted made so much noise that the magazine was pulled from every news stand in the country and reprinted.<br>
One year Penn moved from 10th to 7th in the rankings. Their resulting yield was so high that they overenrolled by more than 100 people.
One year Hastings didn't submit placement data. They fell from 20th to 45th, and the resulting feedback loop (i.e. consumer response) has kept them from ever regaining their original place in the top 25.<br>
For the schools ranging between 25 and 60, there's constant pressure to gain or keep a spot in the top 50. When a school's ranking drops, people get fired.<br>
What has caused all this commotion? A report that tells you something about law schools, but which has varied so much that sometimes even I don't know exactly what it tells you. </p>

<p>Around 1988 or so, USNews & World Report published a ranking of law schools. There was a top 25 and nothing else.<br>
Readers were so hungry for more data that in 1992 the report was expanded. There were four quartiles, with the top 25 singled out.
In 1994 there were two groups of 25, and third, fourth and fifth tiers.<br>
In 1997, allegedly in response to pressure from law schools, both the top 25 and the next 25 were labelled "top tier," and the remaining three groups re-labelled 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Students were ecstatic that their school was in a higher tier, ignoring the fact that the 5th tier no longer existed.
In 1999 a top 50 replaced the two top 25s, with only a minor emphasis on the break between 25 and 26.<br>
In 2003 USNews took the big leap to a top 100, with a tiny third tier and a full 4th tier.<br>
None of this surprises me; their job is to sell magazines, and if a change in format will do that, they'll change the format. What surprises me is how many of America's future lawyers are foolish enough to buy into all this hype! </p>

<p>In an effort to combat this problem, I've analyzed the data, shown you how it can be used profitably (as well as how you misuse it), and prepared my own reports, charts and graphs. All of that info is saved for you here. </p>

<p>Enough! I'm not gonna say it again! USNews is a useful tool, but until you learn to tell the difference between a ranking and a reputation, between a ranking and a good school, or between a ranking and the right school for you, most of you doom yourself to a well-deserved failure.</p>