University of Richmond UR Scholarship Repository Law Faculty Publications School of Law 2013 Top Ten Law School Home Pages of 2012 Roger V Skalbeck University of Richmond, rskalbeck@richmond.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.richmond.edu/law-faculty-publications Part of the Legal Education Commons Recommended Citation Roger V Skalbeck & Matt Zimmerman, Top 10 Law School Home Pages of 2012, J.L (2 J Legal Metrics) 51-76 (2013) This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Law at UR Scholarship Repository It has been accepted for inclusion in Law Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of UR Scholarship Repository For more information, please contact scholarshiprepository@richmond.edu TABLES OF CONTENTS Volume • Number • 2013 Available at: Introducing a Nearly Vast Amount of Work to Be Done by Ross E Davies •JOURNAL OF LEGAL METRICS• Web 2.0 Citations in the Federal Courts by Adam Aft, Tom Cummins & Joshua Cumby 31 Appellate Review II - October Term 2011 by Tom Cummins & Adam Aft 37 Top 10 Law School Home Pages of 2012 by Roger V Skalbeck & Matt Zimmerman 51 Supreme Court Sluggers: Samuel A Alito of the Philadelphia Phillies and Marvin Miller of the MLBPA by Ross E Davies 77 •THE POST• Introduction by Anna Ivey 89 The Secret "Kill List" and the President, The Volokh Conspiracy, May 29, 2012 by Kenneth Anderson 93 Are You Ready for Some Research? Uncertain Diagnoses, Research Data Privacy, & Preference Heterogeneity, The Faculty Lounge, Feb 3, 2013 by Michelle N Meyer 99 Debate on the Treaty Power, The Volokh Conspiracy, Jan 13-Feb 3, 2013 by Nick Rosenkranz, Eugene Kontorovich, Rick Pildes & Ilya Somin 111 The Decision to Uphold the Mandate as Tax Represents a Gestalt Shift in Constitutional Law, Legal Theory Blog, June 28, 2012 by Lawrence Solum 173 JOURNAL OF LAW • 2013 Tables of Contents Asian-Americans, Affirmative Action, and Fisher v Texas, The Volokh Conspiracy, May 31, 2012 by Ilya Somin 179 Law Schools Suffer Loss in Lawsuits, Balkinization, Sept 19, 2012 by Brian Tamanaha 185 JOURNAL OF LAW • 2013 TOP 10 LAW SCHOOL HOME PAGES OF 2012 Roger V Skalbeck &_Matt Zimmerman t I n 2012, the variety of devices available to access websites expanded greatly, especially in the area of portable technology During 2012, we saw the introduction of the iPhone 5, the iPad Mini, the Google Nexus 7, as well as two sizes of Amazon's Kindle Fire HD Each of these devices has different screen resolutions, but all have an important thing in common: they provide access to Internet content through a web browser For people accessing law school web sites, it should not matter how or where you access the content People simply want websites to work It is a daunting challenge to provide complex content with rich features to an expanding number of platforms and devices For the fourth consecutive year, we try to identify law school home pages that are well-executed and adopt best practices We evaluated all ABA-accredited home pages based on objective criteria The attempt is to find the best-designed, best-performing sites We continue to refine the methodology to account for changes and evaluate them consistently For the 2012 study, twenty-six separate elements are evaluated across three categories (Design Patterns and Metadata, Accessibility and Validation, and Marketing and Commu2 nications) We added four new elements, combined two, and t Roger Skalbeck is Associate Law Librarian for Electronic Resources & Services, Georgetown Law Library Matt Zimmerman is Web Application Developer, Georgetown Law Library Copyright© Roger V Skalbeck and Matt Zimmerman Roger V Skalbeck, Top 10 Law School Home Pages