The new 2026-27 U.S. News Environmental Law Rankings include the environmental law programs at 189 law schools (the faculty survey had a 52% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
| Rank | School |
| 1 | Pace |
| 2 | Lewis & Clark |
| 2 | UC-Berkeley |
| 4 | UCLA |
| 5 | Harvard |
| 5 | Vermont |
| 7 | Colorado |
| 8 | Columbia |
| 8 | NYU |
| 8 | Oregon |
| 8 | Utah |
| 8 | Vanderbilt |
| 13 | Stanford |
| 14 | Arizona State |
| 14 | Georgetown |
| 14 | Michigan |
| 17 | Texas A&M |
| 18 | Denver |
| 18 | Duke |
| 18 | George Washington |
| 18 | Hawaii |
| 18 | Kansas |
| 18 | Maryland |
| 18 | UC-Davis |
| 25 | Florida |
| 25 | Florida State |
| 25 | Minnesota |
| 25 | Tulane |
| 25 | UC Law SF |
| 25 | Yale |
| 31 | New Mexico |
| 32 | Miami |
| 32 | Penn |
| 32 | University of Washington |
| 32 | University of Arizona |
| 32 | Virginia |
| 32 | William & Mary |
| 38 | Texas |
| 39 | Houston |
| 39 | Iowa |
| 39 | UC-Irvine |
| 42 | Indiana (Maurer) |
| 42 | Maine |
| 42 | Northwestern |
| 45 | Case Western |
| 45 | Cornell |
| 45 | Emory |
| 45 | Louisiana State |
| 45 | North Carolina |
| 45 | Wyoming |
2026-27 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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