Knowing the background, how would you rank it? I’m curious as to its current reputation.

They fudge employment numbers, collect tuition dollars, and then leave a lot of their students with a problematic job situation that the market is not big enough to handle. To be fair, I think all law schools fudge this stuff a little to make themselves look good, but I don’t think the picture Harvard paints to people considering attending it is anywhere near as misleading as some of the fourth tier schools; so I’m not going to direct most of my criticism towards a places like it. You don’t need to be a snob–wanting to close some of those places comes as much from not wanting to have a bunch of bitter law graduates with 10s of thousands of dollars of debt and a horrible time finding a job as anything else.

In one sense, I agree with you. We have too many lawyers. But, why on earth should Harvard graduate 500 JDs each year? I suppose that you only favor shutting down the lower tier law schools. That assumes that the rankings are worth anything. This obsession with rankings speaks volumes about our psychological disposition (a sad one at that). I think the better way to handle this matter is for the law schools to limit how many new JDs enter the market each year. The medical schools have done a good job of this and have avoided any antitrust lawsuits (mainly due to preemption as in the Jung case). Enough of the snobbery.

On the list of Peer Rankings, you left off FIU, which came in at (I believe) 1.5.