CHAPTER 0.02 
2012: TOP FIFTY LAW SCHOOLS 


ADDITIONAL RANKINGS

    

 


THE TOP 50 LAW SCHOOLS
2009-2012 RANK AND SCORE

 

Some Invariants. Looking at the 2009-2012 Rankings, we see that the top law school (Yale), the top three law schools, the top four law schools (Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and Columbia), the top thirteen law schools, the top fifteen law schools, top seventeen law schools, and the top nineteen law schools have not changed; albeit the ordering of the law schools within these groups may have changed. 

 

USNews RANK

TOP 27-49

USNews SCORE

2009

2010

2011

2012

LAW   SCHOOL

2009

2010

2011

2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

26

26.5

30.5

28

Boston College

61

64

63

65

28

26.5

26

28

U Iowa 

60

64

66

65

30.5

28.5

30.5

28

William & Mary (VA)

59

63

63

65

23

21

23.5

32

Emory U (GA) 

63

66

67

64

28

32

35.5

32

Fordham U (NY) 

60

62

62

64

39.5

32

30.5

32

U North Carolina CH

56

62

63

64

30.5

32

35.5

32

U Washington 

59

62

62

64

25

32

35.5

32

Washington and Lee

62

62

62

64

33.5

36.5

35.5

36.5

Ohio SU

58

61

62

62

33.5

32

39.5

36.5

U Alabama 

58

62

60

62

33.5

36.5

30.5

36.5

U Georgia 

58

61

63

62

36.5

36.5

30.5

36.5

U Wisconsin

57

61

63

62

42.5

40

39.5

39

Wake Forest U (NC) 

55

59

60

61

53

56.5

39.5

40.5

Arizona SU

50

51

60

60

39.5

41.5

44

40.5

George Mason (VA) 

56

58

59

60

48

41.5

44

44

Brigham Young (UT)

53

58

59

59

39.5

43.5

44

44

U Arizona

56

57

59

59

42.5

43.5

49.5

44

U Maryland 

55

57

55

59

51

46.5

44

44

U Utah 

52

56

59

59

39.5

39

44

44

UC Hastings

56

60

59

59

44.5

46.5

49.5

48

Tulane U (LA) 

54

56

55

56

33.5

46.5

39.5

48

U Colorado-Boulder 

58

56

60

56




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