Talk:Judging the Law Schools

Proposal For Deletion
I am proposing this article for deletion. This article is about the book "Judging the Law Schools", written by Thomas Brennan and Don LeDuc, respectively the founder and dean of Cooley Law School, and self-published by Brennan as well as disseminated on the Cooley Law School Web site. As noted in the blog article cited as a reference in footnote 3, the book purports to be a "ranking" of law schools in which, contrary to every other independent and respected ranking of law schools, Cooley comes out as one of the top, instead of one of the bottom schools, simply because the criteria selected for preparing the rankings favor size. The rankings it produces are, as the source says "preposterous", and are universally ignored. The lack of notability of this book is reflected in doing a Google News search: It show up exactly five (5) times in the past decade, one of which was in connection with a local-interest story about some kid who was going to attend Cooley (Portsmouth Daily Times), and another of which was a letter to the editor (Austin American), so only three (3) real hits. A handful of additional hits show up in a Google Scholar search, but the real hits are typically scholarly articles about law school rankings where Brennan's rankings are mentioned only in passing or footnotes, or are criticized for having fatally-flawed methodology at best and for being absurd on their face at worst. This book is clearly non-notable, self-published and entirely self-promotional, and doesn't belong in an encyclopedia. Fladrif (talk) 14:20, 9 July 2009 (UTC)