<p>Nowadays at least, it seems people rank Chicago in the 2nd tier of law schools with Columbia and NYU after Harvard, Yale, and Stanford. So I think it would be a good first step to get Chicago to the top of the 2nd tier, and then after a few years of heavy recruiting, sneaking into that 1st tier. If Chicago can capitalize off the Obama administration and get a lot of the players in that administration (back) on campus, then that would do wonders for the perception of the Law School and the Institute of Politics.</p>
<p>Note that in the 90s and early 00s, the Law School lost a lot of its key faculty to Harvard and the like. That’s part of the reason why Chicago is no longer as elite as it was. Remember, we gave up people like Kagan because they had sullied themselves by actual interaction with praxis (as opposed to pure theory) during the Clinton Administration. We’re still paying for those mistakes, as we should be.</p>