CHAPTER ONE  
2012 LAW SCHOOL RANKINGS 



 

2012 LAW SCHOOL RANKINGS 

 

 For all 190 ABA-approved law schools,
we give their rank and score
for each of the four years 2009-2012.
Even more data for the Top 25.
 

Top 6

 

Top 25

 

Top 50

Top 100

 

Top 145

 

Tier 4


 

TOPICS

    
  • QUOTES ABOUT NUMBERS
  • US News 2012 RANKING OF LAW SCHOOL
  • SECTIONS OF CHAPTER ONE      

 

 

 

QUOTES ABOUT NUMBERS

 
 
  • Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.  
              Albert Einstein (1879-1955), attributed
    From the Notices of the American Mathematical Society 53(2006)1049.
      
  • Number rules the universe. The Pythagoreans
      
  • Everything is number. The Pythagoreans
      
  • Wherever there is number, there is beauty.  Proclus (AD 412-485). 

USNews RANKING OF LAW SCHOOLS

 
  • The gold standard of law school rankings has been provided by the U.S. News and World Report (USN) publication BEST [AMERICAN] GRADUATE [AND PROFESSIONAL] SCHOOLS.  The original US News Law School Ranking ranked the TOP TWENTY (1987). The top ten and the top sixteen of the November 1987 ranking of law schools are still the same (albeit their order has changed).  
      
  • Every year, USNews and World News assigns a number to each law schools considered (199 law schools forc 2012); this number is called the OVERALL SCORE (a/k/a SCORE). The scores of the 2012 top 145 law schools have been made public. In the natural way, these scores determines the rank of the law schools.  
       
  • The original US News Law School Ranking ranked the TOP TWENTY (1987). The top ten and the top sixteen of the November 1987 ranking of law schools are the same (albeit their order has changed).
  • We make some suggestions for IMPROVING RANKINGS.    

SECTIONS OF CHAPTER ZERO

 
  • SECTION ONE. Top 25
  • SECTION TWO. Top 50
  • SECTION THREE. Top 100
  • SECTION FOUR.  The Top
  • SECTION FIVE.
  • SECTION SIX.
  • SECTION SEVEN.
  • SECTION EIGHT.

LAW SCHOOL SPECIALTY (e.g. Intellectual Property)
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