My colleague Paul Caron just blogged on the possibility of auctioning his US News Tax ranking votes on EBay. Paul suggests: Ebay_logo_sm_1

Given the increasing emphasis schools are putting on these rankings, it got me to wondering why no one has auctioned off their 15 votes on eBay:

Starting bid: US $1.00
Time left: 10 days
Ends Oct-20-04 12:00:00 PDT
Start time: Oct-10-04 12:00:00 PDT
Quantity: 15 available
Item location: Cincinnati, Ohio
United States

You are bidding on 1 of 15 selections in a U.S. News & World Report annual peer assessment of tax law programs in American law schools. Each of the 15 winning bidders will be able to designate one of the votes on this official U.S. News ballot. This is your chance to help your favorite law school’s tax program get the recognition it so richly deserves.

I just happened to receive not only the US News International Law programs ranking, but also the big one – the Overall Annnual Assessment of Law Schools. That means I have 15 votes to sell in the International Law rankings and, since regarding the overall survey US News intructs us to “Rate schools on a scale of outstanding (5) to marginal (1) by marking the corresponding box”, I also have 5 options to sell for each of the 180+ schools included in the survey.

So let the bidding start!