The new 2025-26 U.S. News International Law Rankings include the international law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 47% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
| Rank | School |
| 1 | NYU |
| 2 | Harvard |
| 3 | Columbia |
| 3 | Georgetown |
| 3 | Yale |
| 6 | American |
| 6 | UC-Berkeley |
| 8 | George Washington |
| 8 | Michigan |
| 10 | Stanford |
| 11 | Cornell |
| 11 | Virginia |
| 13 | Case Western |
| 13 | Duke |
| 13 | Temple |
| 13 | Chicago |
| 17 | UCLA |
| 18 | Penn |
| 19 | Fordham |
| 19 | Vanderbilt |
| 19 | Washington Univ. |
| 22 | Indiana (Maurer) |
| 22 | Northwestern |
| 22 | UC-Davis |
| 22 | Georgia |
| 26 | Minnesota |
| 26 | Notre Dame |
| 26 | Texas |
| 29 | Boston College |
| 29 | Boston University |
| 29 | Emory |
| 29 | Tulane |
| 29 | UC-Irvine |
| 29 | Miami |
| 29 | Pacific |
| 29 | William & Mary |
| 37 | Arizona State |
| 37 | Santa Clara |
| 37 | University of Washington |
| 37 | Wisconsin |
| 41 | Florida Int’l |
| 41 | Ohio State |
| 41 | Denver |
| 41 | Washington & Lee |
| 45 | BYU |
| 45 | Loyola-Chicago |
| 45 | Northeastern |
| 45 | Rutgers |
| 45 | Texas A&M |
| 45 | University of Arizona |
| 45 | Connecticut |
| 45 | Hawaii |
| 45 | Maryland |
| 45 | Pittsburgh |
2024-25 U.S. News International Law Rankings
2025-26 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:
- Business/Corporate Law
- Clinical Law
- Constitutional Law
- Contracts/Commercial Law
- Criminal Law
- Dispute Resolution
- Environmental Law
- Health Care Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- International Law
- Legal Writing
- Trial Advocacy
- Tax Law
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