AT THE FACULTY MEETING TODAY we discussed rankings (not this one, but the U.S. News rankings of law schools). Naturally everyone thinks two things: (1) the rankings are dumb and arbitary; and (2) it’s important to do as well as possible in them. In this, our views resemble our students’ views about grades, with the difference that the students’ views are, of course, ill-considered.

Anyway, for those who don’t like the way that U.S. News ranks, there’s this wonderful alternative ranker that lets you weight the data differently, and even include other data (such as Tibetan restaurants within 600m of the school) and then do your own ranking. I like it.