Talk:List of Ivy League law schools/Archive 1

Merge with Ivy League

I see no reason for this article to exist independently. At best it should be merged with Ivy League, if not deleted altogether. Cjs2111 (talk) 21:57, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Don't merge with Ivy League

Well, when a page for Ivy League business schools can exist, I don't see why this shouldn't. It just needs a little more content, which it'll gain sooner or later. In fact this will have more information about some of the nation's best law schools, their history, program offerings and alumni information. All this article needs is time. 117.193.199.41 (talk) 16:40, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Ivy League business schools was nominated for deletion twice, and none of its supporters never provided a good rationale for why it should be kept (whereas opponents provided lots of good arguments, like the arbitrariness of "Ivy League" as a category for graduate schools). In fact, creating this page fulfills the prophecy of one of the Ivy League business schools deletion advocates, who warned keeping it would mean creating an "Ivy League ____" for everything (I'm sure a medical schools page is just around the corner). Could you maybe explain what this article will add beyond a collection of information that's already on individual school pages, which are conveniently linked together by a template box already? Unless it's about the salience of the concept of "Ivy League law schools" in society, I don't think it's really necessary to construct another platform for this information. Cjs2111 (talk) 21:21, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

This page can be modeled along the line of Ivy League business schools' contents and in fact, more information on Ivy League law schools' origins, their reputation and rankings, their influence on law school education and society, and remarkable alumni can hold against the merging/deletion of this article. Before the article can realize its full scope, it is too early to decide on merging, because the article Ivy League as a whole doesn't provide the specific information that this could. I don't think why "Ivy League ________" articles need to be denied articleship when they are worthy of it in terms of content and sources. And a template box cannot give all the common/specific information in a single page about all the Ivy League law schools. This might not be especially true of medical schools or any other schools belonging to Ivy League universities, but it definitely suits Ivy League law schools. So instead of always prying to merge any new article that is being created, people here can actually think of working on expanding them to make them worthy of existing as separate articles. Also, merging the contents of this article will only leave the Ivy League article cluttered with just too much information on law schools and comparatively lesser information on other schools. 117.193.203.171 (talk) 16:34, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Yes. Most importantly, the information on admissions and class profile can be of very great help in expanding this article and proving its uniqueness. Ivy League law school admissions are highly selective and an insight into this can prove to add specific information not found on Ivy League or Law school in the United States.

Sorry for the bad edit. I'm not a regular. I hope you know that in the legal profession and among top law school applicants, a school's ivy league status is irrelevant. Law school deans compete for ranking in the US News and World Report. Stanford is comparable with Yale and Harvard for prestige. Columbia is peered with Chicago and NYU. All of these schools are more prestigious than Penn and Cornell. Ivy League status is a meaningless metric in the legal community. 173.22.54.160 (talk) 21:42, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

One should know that the article is merely a focus on Ivy League law schools, their history and their complete profile. Nobody is arguing with the status of equivalent and elite schools like Stanford or Chicago, as it is more than obvious that these schools have also produced many of the greatest legal thinkers in nation's history. This article's sole purpose is to describe the profile of the law schools belonging to Ivy League and not to deride/belittle other schools or to use this as article as a "metric" in any way. 59.92.15.232 (talk) 16:57, 16 July 2010 (UTC)