Talk:Duke University School of Law/Archive 1

2005 & 2006 Comments
A 'History' section would be highly appropriate, but I have been unable to find sufficient information. Krazos 16:06, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

As it stands, this article is strongly POV, and needs a good solid edit to pull out all the advertising material. Either one of the "frequent editors" does this asap, or I will do it with prejudice. --Shannonr 07:46, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

I hvae now removed the bulk of the advertising copy. Please ensure that all future edits remain NPOV. Thanks. --Shannonr 13:20, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

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Journals
I feel that Duke Law Journal's status as the most cited journal at the law school should be highlighted in the "journals" section, as an uninformed reader would come away from this article with the impression that Law and Contemporary Problems is the school's flagship journal. I am not a wikipedia expert so will leave this to some other enterprising editor. This is the source: http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/index.aspx 67.159.82.227 (talk) 22:45, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Removed the reference to the Gender Journal publishing the two longest issues in school history--that's no longer accurate, as DLJ published a longer issue in 2008. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.111.207.79 (talk) 14:19, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Admission/enrollment rate
The entry cited a 4% enrollment rate for the law school. Firstly, the reference cited for this enrollment rate lacked any such data. Secondly, acceptance rate is the standard metric for selectivity, and for good reason. A 4% enrollment rate could just as easily demonstrate that most admitted students prefer to attend other schools. As it stood, this statistic was highly misleading (since a naive reader would almost certainly confound acceptance and enrollment rates). I left unedited the statement that Duke Law is "highly selective," because this is commonly accepted as true. Note, however, that Duke Law is ranked 50/185 for selectivity according to raw acceptance rate data. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.176.212.31 (talk) 07:53, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Law schools that have graduated presidents
The second paragraph of the intro mentions that of T14 schools, only Duke, Harvard, and Yale have graduated US Presidents. However, both Roosevelts graduated from Columbia Law, which is also a T14 school, so I'm going to go ahead and change the article to reflect this. If I'm doing this in error, feel free to find a source and change it back. --Danberbro (talk) 03:56, 17 September 2012 (UTC)