George: I disagree. These rankings are an important piece of consumer information for students who are thinking about attending law school. We can debate methodology all day long–I’m certain that Mason suffers in the heavily weighted “peer review” section of the U.S. News survey simply because the left-wingers who do the reviewing despise the fact that Ron Rotunda is a Republican, for example. But some information is better than no information, and without efforts such as the U.S. News survey, all we’re left with is mystique. Without this data, the Masons of the world would have a much harder time demonstrating improvement–and that’s why Mason’s administration actually looks forward to the release of these rankings. And the fact that so many deans hate them suggests to me that they hold real value. And don’t forget that U.S. News has competitors, such as Leiter’s Law School Rankings. We’re much better off with these rankings than without them.