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Projected 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: 1-11

Paul Caron
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In May, I blogged Derek Muller’s Projected 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings for the Top 100 law schools. Last week, Mike Spivey published projected rankings for the Top 11 law schools. The table below shows the differences between the two models for the Top 11 schools:

Law
School

2024-25
Rank

Muller Projected
2025-26 Rank

Spivey Projected
2025-26 Rank

Stanford

1

1

1

Yale

1

3

2

Chicago

3

2

3

Duke

4

7

7

Harvard

4

5

4

Penn

4

5

4

Virginia

4

3

4

Columbia

8

9

8

Michigan

9

7

8

Northwestern

9

9

8

NYU

9

9

8

Mike will publish the Top 100 ranking under his model in December when the ABA releases 509 reports for every law school.

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Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the Dorothy and Leonard Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in the spring semesters of 2010 through 2013. He served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Pepperdine in 2015-2017. Before coming to Pepperdine, he was Associate Dean of Faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
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