The new 2025-26 U.S. News Legal Writing Rankings include the legal writing programs at 109 law schools (the faculty survey had a 52% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Oregon 1 UNLV 3 Arizona State 3 Stetson 3 Suffolk 6 Seattle 7 Wake Forest 8 UC-Irvine 8 University of Arizona 10…

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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…

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The new 2025-26 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings include the intellectual property law programs at 194 law schools (the faculty survey had a 56% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Stanford 2 UC-Berkeley 3 NYU 4 Santa Clara 5 George Washington 6 American 6 Cardozo 6 Texas A&M 9 Chicago-Kent…

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The new 2025-26 U.S. News Health Care Law Rankings include the health care law programs at 191 law schools (the faculty survey had a 45% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 St. Louis 2 Boston University 3 Georgia State 4 Loyola-Chicago 4 Maryland 6 Harvard 7 Stanford 8 Georgetown 9 Houston…

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The new 2025-26 U.S. News Environmental Law Rankings include the environmental law programs at 189 law schools (the faculty survey had a 50% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Pace 2 Lewis & Clark 2 UC-Berkeley 4 Vermont 5 Columbia 6 UCLA 7 Colorado 7 Harvard 7 NYU 7 Oregon 7…

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The new 2025-26 U.S. News Dispute Resolution Rankings include the dispute resolution programs at 149 law schools (the faculty survey had a 43% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Ohio State 2 Pepperdine 3 Harvard 3 Texas A&M 5 Cardozo 5 Missouri-Columbia 7 Northwestern 8 Mitchell | Hamline 9 Arizona State…

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The new 2025-26 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings include the criminal law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 47% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 NYU 1 Stanford 3 Harvard 3 Michigan 3 Penn 3 Virginia 7 UC-Berkeley 8 UCLA 9 Chicago 9 Columbia 9 Duke 9…

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The new 2025-26 U.S. News Contracts/Commercial Law Rankings include the contracts/commercial law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 36% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Chicago 1 Harvard 1 Stanford 4 Columbia 4 Yale 6 Michigan 6 NYU 6 Penn 6 UC-Berkeley 6 Virginia 11 Georgetown 11…

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The new 2025-26 U.S. News Constitutional Law Rankings include the constitutional law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 39% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Yale 2 Chicago 2 Harvard 4 Stanford 5 Columbia 5 NYU 5 UC-Berkeley 5 Virginia 9 Michigan 9 Penn 11 Georgetown 12…

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The new 2025-26 U.S. News Clinical Training Rankings include the clinical training law programs at 185 law schools (the faculty survey had a 54% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Georgetown 2 American 2 NYU 4 Baltimore 4 CUNY 4 Michigan 4 UC-Berkeley 8 Denver 8 Maryland 8 Suffolk 8 Yale…

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Following up on Tuesday's post, 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings):  Derek Muller (Notre Dame; Google Scholar), Benchmarking Law School Rankings Against Expectations, Performance, and Rankings Tactics: Whenever the USNWR law school rankings are released, there are typical cries of “how did X school move to Y?” This usually reflects a…

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The new 2025-26 U.S. News Business/Corporate Law Rankings include the business/corporate law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 42% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Harvard 2 Chicago 2 Columbia 2 NYU 5 Penn 5 Stanford 7 UC-Berkeley 8 UCLA 8 Virginia 8 Yale 11 Michigan 12…

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Following up on Monday’s post, XPT Top 25 Law School Rankings (Alpha Phase):  Donald Tobin (Maryland; Google Scholar), Building a Better Mousetrap: There Must Be Something Better Than U.S. News: There must be a better way. U.S. News has dominated law school rankings for several decades, and its decisions about what to rank and how…

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Continuing a TaxProf Blog tradition (see links below for 2008-09 to 2024-25), here is the full list of the 195 law schools ranked by academic peer reputation, as well as their overall rank, in the new 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings (methodology): Peer Rank Peer Score School Overall Rank 1 4.7 Harvard 6 1…

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For the third year in a row (The Silly U.S. News Law School Rankings (2024-25), A Preliminary Analysis Of The New U.S. News Law School Rankings (2023-24)), Donald Tobin shares his thoughts on the forthcoming U.S. News Law School Rankings:  XPT Top 25 Law School Rankings (Alpha Phase), by Donald Tobin (Maryland; Google Scholar): This…

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U.S. News & World Report has announced that the new 2025-26 law school rankings will be publicly released on Tuesday, April 8th (law schools will receive an embargoed copy on Tuesday, March 25th): Outcomes are critical when considering an advanced degree. That is why three brand new law school rankings that compare schools on different…

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