Paul L. Caron
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Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Rankings
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2024 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Academic Experience
Update: 2024 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking I previously blogged the lists of the Top 5 law schools in fourteen categories in the 2024 edition of the Princeton Review’s Best Law Schools. In a series of posts, I will highlight the Top 50 schools in the five categories for which the Princeton Review…
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Princeton Review’s Best 168 Law Schools (2024 Edition)
The Princeton Review has published the 2024 edition of The Best 168 Law Schools (press release) (FAQs) (methodology): The company reports its annual law school rankings in 14 categories, each one naming the top 10 schools in a particular category. … The Princeton Review’s law school rankings are uniquely based on data the company gathers…
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Top Law Schools For Alternative Dispute Resolution
Top Law Schools For Alternative Dispute Resolution, preLaw, Spring 2024, at 37: Law students who specialize in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) focus on litigation and conflict resolution skills. ADR acts as an alternative to going to trial when problems arise between businesses and their customers, suppliers, partners or employees. Just as trial skills are important,…
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2024-25 U.S. News Global Universities Rankings
U.S. News & World Report, 2024-25 Best Global Universities Rankings: These institutions from the U.S. and more than 100 other countries have been ranked based on 13 indicators that measure their academic research performance and their global and regional reputations. Students can use these rankings to explore the higher education options that exist beyond their…
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Georgetown Study: Return On Investment At 186 Law Schools
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, Press Release: At Nearly 1 in 5 Law Schools, Graduates Earn Less Than $55,000 Net of Debt Four Years After Graduation, Georgetown University Report Says Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, A Law Degree Is No Sure Thing: Some Law School Graduates Earn Top Dollar,…
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U.S. News Law School Rankings Aren’t Useful Anymore To Applicants
Bloomberg Law Op-Ed: U.S. News Law School Rankings Aren’t Useful Anymore to Applicants, by David Lat: "Once upon a time, the News & World Report law school rankings were critically important to law schools,” University of Kentucky’s Brian Frye and Indiana University’s Christopher “CJ” Ryan write in a new study. “Law schools literally lived or…
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Frye: The New York Times Law School Rankings
Brian L. Frye (Kentucky; Google Scholar), The Gray Lady’s Guide to Legal Education: For better or worse, the U.S. News & World Report law school ranking has dominated legal education for decades, by giving prospective law students information about the relative prestige of law schools. But in recent years, it has become largely irrelevant, as prospective…
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Frye & Ryan: Entering Law Students Do Not Rely On The U.S. News Rankings In Choosing A Law School
Update: Reuters, U.S. News & World Report's Law School Rankings 'Irrelevant' to Applicants, Study Finds Brian L. Frye (Kentucky; Google Scholar) & CJ Ryan (Indiana-Maurer; Google Scholar), The Decline & Fall of the US News Rankings: Have the U.S. News & World Report law school rankings become irrelevant? The ostensible purpose of the US News law school…
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Projected 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: The Biggest Winners And Losers
Derek Muller (Notre Dame; Google Scholar), Projecting the 2025-2026 USNWR Law School Rankings (To Be Released March 2025 Or So): Fifty-eight percent of the new USNWR law school rankings turn on three highly-volatile categories: employment 10 months after graduation[33%], first-time bar passage [18%], and ultimate bar passage [7%]. USNWR has tried to smooth these out…
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Law School Class Of 2023 Jobs Rankings For All 195 Law Schools In Seven Categories
Law360, The Law School Legal Industry Job Tracker: Class Of 2023: Law360, Top Law Schools For Legal Industry Careers: By The Numbers: Lists of the Top 10 law schools in seven jobs categories: BigLaw
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Law School Class Of 2023 Jobs Rankings: Bar-Passage Required, BigLaw, Federal Judicial Clerkships, And Government|Public Interest
Reuters, These Law Schools Ranked Tops For Jobs in 2023: The University of Virginia School of Law sent the highest percentage of graduates into full-time law jobs in 2023, marking the second consecutive year that the school snagged the top spot. A full 97.18% of Virginia's 2023 juris doctor graduates went on to full-time, permanent…
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2024 World Law School Rankings
Quacquarelli Symonds has released the 2024 World Law School Rankings as part of its World University Rankings. The methodology uses five indicators: academic reputation, employer reputation, research citations per paper, h-index, International Research Network (IRN). The rankings consist of 370 law schools, 61 in the United States. Here are the U.S. law schools, along with each…
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2024-25 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings
Following up on yesterday’s post, 2024-25 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings: Here are the law schools whose U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Ranking most exceeds their overall U.S. News Ranking: School Specialty Rank Overall Rank Difference 1 Santa Clara 71 158 +87 2 American* 27 98 +71 3 Illinois-Chicago 97 161 +64 3 Suffolk 66 130…
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2024-25 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings
Update: Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings The new 2024-25 U.S. News Specialty Rankings include the rankings for 13 specialty programs at 196 law schools. Here are the Top 100 law schools, determined by giving equal weight to each of the 13 separate specialty rankings: Business/Corporate Law Clinical Law Constitutional Law Contracts/Commercial Law Criminal Law Dispute Resolution…
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2024-25 U.S. News Trial Advocacy Rankings
The new 2024-25 U.S. News Trial Advocacy Rankings include the trial advocacy programs at 196 law schools (the faculty survey had a 50% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Stetson 1 Temple 3 Baylor 4 Fordham 4 UCLA 6 Samford 6 South Texas 8 Denver 8 Drexel 8 Loyola-L.A. 8 Mercer…
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2024-25 U.S. News Legal Writing Rankings
The new 2024-25 U.S. News Legal Writing Rankings include the legal writing programs at 133 law schools (the faculty survey had a 64% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Oregon 2 UNLV 3 Stetson 3 Suffolk 5 Arizona State 5 Wake Forest 7 UC-Irvine 8 Nova 8 Seattle 8 University of…
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2024-25 U.S. News International Law Rankings
The new 2024-25 U.S. News International Law Rankings include the international law programs at 193 law schools (the faculty survey had a 43% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 NYU 2 Harvard 2 Yale 4 Columbia 5 Georgetown 6 Michigan 7 Cornell 7 UC-Berkeley 9 American 9 Chicago 9 George Washington…
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2024-25 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings
The new 2024-25 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings include the intellectual property law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 47% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 UC-Berkeley 2 Stanford 3 NYU 4 Santa Clara 5 George Washington 6 Cardozo 6 Texas A&M 8 American 8 Boston…
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2024-25 U.S. News Health Care Law Rankings
The new 2024-25 U.S. News Health Care Law Rankings include the health care law programs at 191 law schools (the faculty survey had a 49% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Georgia State 2 St. Louis 3 Boston University 4 Loyola-Chicago 4 Maryland 6 Georgetown 7 Harvard 7 Houston 7 Northeastern…
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2024-25 U.S. News Environmental Law Rankings
The new 2024-25 U.S. News Environmental Law Rankings include the environmental law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 55% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Pace 2 UC-Berkeley 3 Lewis & Clark 4 Vermont 5 UCLA 6 Columbia 7 Colorado 7 Oregon 7 Utah 10 Georgetown 10…
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U.S. News Rankings Potpourri: Waning Influence, Penalizing 53 Boycotting Law Schools, And Declining T14 Lawyer|Judge Reputation Scores
Reuters, After Setbacks, U.S. News Law School Rankings Show Signs of Waning Influence: [T]he influence of U.S. News’ law school rankings is waning following a widespread boycott by schools that began in 2022 and a series of data errors that plagued the rollout of the 2023 list. According to U.S. News, 53 schools out of the nation's 197 accredited…
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2024-25 U.S. News Dispute Resolution Rankings
The new 2024-25 U.S. News Dispute Resolution Rankings include the dispute resolution programs at 92 law schools (the faculty survey had a 54% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Ohio State 2 Pepperdine Caruso 3 Harvard 3 Missouri-Columbia 5 Cardozo 5 Texas A&M 7 Maryland 7 Mitchell | Hamline 7 Northwestern…
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2024-25 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings
The new 2024-25 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings include the criminal law programs at 196 law schools (the faculty survey had a 49% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 NYU 2 Harvard 2 Stanford 4 UC-Berkeley 5 Georgetown 5 Michigan 7 Columbia 7 Duke 7 Penn 7 UCLA 7 Virginia 12…
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2024-25 U.S. News Contracts/Commercial Law Rankings
The new 2024-25 U.S. News Contracts/Commercial Law Rankings include the contracts/commercial law programs at 196 law schools (the faculty survey had a 43% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Columbia 2 Chicago 2 Harvard 4 Stanford 5 Penn 5 Virginia 7 Georgetown 7 Michigan 7 NYU 7 Yale 11 Cornell 11…
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2024-25 U.S. News Constitutional Law Rankings
The new 2024-25 U.S. News Constitutional Law Rankings include the constitutional law programs at 196 law schools (the faculty survey had a 43% response rate). Here are the Top 50: Rank School 1 Harvard 2 Chicago 3 Stanford 3 Yale 5 NYU 5 UC-Berkeley 7 Columbia 7 Michigan 7 Virginia 10 Duke 11 Cornell 11…