Yale, Harvard and other top law schools are pulling out of U.S. News & World Report rankings. The method for ranking law schools “is unnecessarily secretive,” Carey Law School at U-Penn says. For some schools that opt out of answering questions, there could be risks. Law deans say U.S.
News is reaching out to them about their concerns. “They have a business to run, and right now, they have a crisis of credibility,” one dean says. University of Michigan’s law school, ranked 10th, announced a pullout last month.
