Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Law School Rankings
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Commentary On The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings
ABA Journal, Shake-Up in US News' 2024 Law School Rankings Above the Law, The 2024-2025 U.S. News Law School Rankings Are Here: Big Changes in the T14, Along With Some of the Largest Rankings Tumbles and Gains Above the Law, Does Anyone Even Care About The U.S. News Law School Rankings Anymore? Neil Buchanan (Florida),
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Commentary On The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings
ABA Journal, Shake-Up in US News' 2024 Law School Rankings Above the Law, The 2024-2025 U.S. News Law School Rankings Are Here: Big Changes in the T14, Along With Some of the Largest Rankings Tumbles and Gains Above the Law, Does Anyone Even Care About The U.S. News Law School Rankings Anymore? Neil Buchanan (Florida),
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2024-25 U.S. News Tax Rankings
The new 2024-25 U.S. News Tax Rankings include the tax programs at 196 law schools (the faculty survey had a 59% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 NYU 2 Georgetown 3 Florida 3 Northwestern 5 Virginia 6 Columbia 6 UCLA 8 Michigan 8 UC-Irvine 10 Chicago 10 Duke 10 Harvard 13
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2024-25 U.S. News Tax Rankings
The new 2024-25 U.S. News Tax Rankings include the tax programs at 196 law schools (the faculty survey had a 59% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 NYU 2 Georgetown 3 Florida 3 Northwestern 5 Virginia 6 Columbia 6 UCLA 8 Michigan 8 UC-Irvine 10 Chicago 10 Duke 10 Harvard 13
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Muller: Did U.S. News Change Its Law School Rankings Methodology To Avoid A Steeper Fall For Cornell And NYU?
Derek Muller (Notre Dame; Google Scholar), The 2024-2025 USNWR Law School Rankings: Methodology Tweaks May Help Entrench Elite Schools, But Elite Schools See Reputation Decline Among Lawyers and Judges: Hours after the release of last year’s dramatic change to the USNWR methodology, I noted the dramatic increase in “compression and volatility” in the coming rankings. USNWR
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Muller: Did U.S. News Change Its Law School Rankings Methodology To Avoid A Steeper Fall For Cornell And NYU?
Derek Muller (Notre Dame; Google Scholar), The 2024-2025 USNWR Law School Rankings: Methodology Tweaks May Help Entrench Elite Schools, But Elite Schools See Reputation Decline Among Lawyers and Judges: Hours after the release of last year’s dramatic change to the USNWR methodology, I noted the dramatic increase in “compression and volatility” in the coming rankings. USNWR
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2024-25 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
Continuing a TaxProf Blog tradition (see links below for 2008-09 to 2023-24), here is the full list of the 196 law schools ranked by academic peer reputation, as well as their overall rank, in the new 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings (methodology): Peer Rank Peer Score School Overall Rank 1 4.6 Harvard 4 1
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2024-25 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)
Continuing a TaxProf Blog tradition (see links below for 2008-09 to 2023-24), here is the full list of the 196 law schools ranked by academic peer reputation, as well as their overall rank, in the new 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings (methodology): Peer Rank Peer Score School Overall Rank 1 4.6 Harvard 4 1
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Tobin: The Silly U.S. News Law School Rankings
TaxProf Blog op-ed: The Silly U.S. News Law School Rankings, by Donald Tobin (Maryland; Google Scholar): It is silly season again! Last year, after U.S. News announced its new methodology regarding law school rankings, I highlighted how the changed methodology in the rankings, and the changes that U.S. News made to those changes, highlighted how
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Tobin: The Silly U.S. News Law School Rankings
TaxProf Blog op-ed: The Silly U.S. News Law School Rankings, by Donald Tobin (Maryland; Google Scholar): It is silly season again! Last year, after U.S. News announced its new methodology regarding law school rankings, I highlighted how the changed methodology in the rankings, and the changes that U.S. News made to those changes, highlighted how
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Preliminary U.S. News Law School Rankings Release Raises Questions
Law.com, Preliminary US News Law School Rankings Release Raises Questions: As far as anyone can tell, U.S. News & World Report is still expected to release its 2024-25 law school rankings on Tuesday, even though the preliminary embargoed rankings released to law schools last week were fraught with errors. Paul Caron reported on his TaxProf Blog Friday
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Preliminary U.S. News Law School Rankings Release Raises Questions
Law.com, Preliminary US News Law School Rankings Release Raises Questions: As far as anyone can tell, U.S. News & World Report is still expected to release its 2024-25 law school rankings on Tuesday, even though the preliminary embargoed rankings released to law schools last week were fraught with errors. Paul Caron reported on his TaxProf Blog Friday
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U.S. News Updates Embargoed Law School Rankings, Impacting Overall Ranking Of 80 Schools
Yesterday (April 4), U.S. News announced it had updated the embargoed law school rankings released on Wednesday (April 3): An update has been made to the preliminary embargoed Best Graduate Schools rankings. Please review the updated data to ensure the accuracy of any prepared communications. Adjustments were made to how ranks were displayed and sorted
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U.S. News Updates Embargoed Law School Rankings, Impacting Overall Ranking Of 80 Schools
Yesterday (April 4), U.S. News announced it had updated the embargoed law school rankings released on Wednesday (April 3): An update has been made to the preliminary embargoed Best Graduate Schools rankings. Please review the updated data to ensure the accuracy of any prepared communications. Adjustments were made to how ranks were displayed and sorted
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U.S. News 2024-25 Top 25 Law Schools
Mike Spivey has published the U.S. News 2024-25 Top 25 law school rankings despite the embargo: Earlier today, U.S. News released their rankings to law school administrations under an embargo. Multiple law schools passed those rankings along to us, however, and we feel, for multiple reasons, that it makes sense to publish them. Among those reasons is
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U.S. News 2024-25 Top 25 Law Schools
Mike Spivey has published the U.S. News 2024-25 Top 25 law school rankings despite the embargo: Earlier today, U.S. News released their rankings to law school administrations under an embargo. Multiple law schools passed those rankings along to us, however, and we feel, for multiple reasons, that it makes sense to publish them. Among those reasons is
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U.S. News Delays Release Of Embargoed 2024-25 Law School Rankings
U.S. News previously announced that law schools would receive an embargoed copy of the 2024-25 law school rankings today (April 2). U.S. News has delayed the release of the embargoed rankings until tomorrow (April 3):
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U.S. News Delays Release Of Embargoed 2024-25 Law School Rankings
U.S. News previously announced that law schools would receive an embargoed copy of the 2024-25 law school rankings today (April 2). U.S. News has delayed the release of the embargoed rankings until tomorrow (April 3):
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U.S. News Releases 2024-25 Law School Top 50 Rankings
Update: For more, see here. U.S. News announced today that, with the retirement of Chief Data Strategist Robert Morse at the age of 76, the 2024-25 and future law school rankings will be based on artificial intelligence licensed from ChatGPT. Here are the 2024-25 U.S. News-ChatGPT Top 50 law schools. The complete rankings of all
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U.S. News Releases 2024-25 Law School Top 50 Rankings
Update: For more, see here. U.S. News announced today that, with the retirement of Chief Data Strategist Robert Morse at the age of 76, the 2024-25 and future law school rankings will be based on artificial intelligence licensed from ChatGPT. Here are the 2024-25 U.S. News-ChatGPT Top 50 law schools. The complete rankings of all
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Reading The U.S. News Law School Rankings Tea Leaves
Reuters, U.S. News Law School Rankings Release Date Set, Methodology Changes Expected: Rankings watchers expect that U.S. News will modify its formula to make it more difficult for people to use publicly available American Bar Association data to forecast the results months before the official list comes out and to reduce volatility in schools’ rankings.
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Reading The U.S. News Law School Rankings Tea Leaves
Reuters, U.S. News Law School Rankings Release Date Set, Methodology Changes Expected: Rankings watchers expect that U.S. News will modify its formula to make it more difficult for people to use publicly available American Bar Association data to forecast the results months before the official list comes out and to reduce volatility in schools’ rankings.
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2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings
U.S. News & World Report has announced that the new 2024-25 law school rankings will be publicly released on Tuesday, April 9 (law schools will receive an embargoed copy on Tuesday, April 2). Here is my coverage of the current 2023-24 law school rankings: Donald Tobin (Maryland), A Preliminary Analysis Of The New U.S. News
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2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings
U.S. News & World Report has announced that the new 2024-25 law school rankings will be publicly released on Tuesday, April 9 (law schools will receive an embargoed copy on Tuesday, April 2). Here is my coverage of the current 2023-24 law school rankings: Donald Tobin (Maryland), A Preliminary Analysis Of The New U.S. News
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2024 Law School Rankings By Graduates In BigLaw Jobs
Law.com, The 2024 Top 50 Go-To Law Schools: The Go-To Law Schools: Big Law report ranks the top 50 law schools by percentage of 2023 juris doctor graduates who took associate positions at the largest 100 firms as identified in The National Law Journal’s annual survey of the nation’s 500 largest law firms. For the first