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Yale Law Tops US News Rankings;
See How the Rest Fared

By Karen Sloan

Y Yale Law School
ale Law School, with its current enrollment of Duke Law School fell two spots to No. 12, pushing
630 students, is still No. 1 in U.S. News & Report’s it out of the top 10, while both Northwestern Uni-
latest law school rankings released Tuesday. versity Pritzker School of Law and the University of
Fordham University School of Law was the big California, Berkeley School of Law gained one spot
winner in the greater rankings. The Manhattan law to tie at No. 9. The rest of the top 10—New York
school rocketed up 12 spots to land at No. 27 in the University School of Law at No. 6; the University
closely watched rankings—by far the largest jump of Pennsylvania Carey Law School at No. 7; and the
among the top 50 schools. University of Virginia School of Law at No. 8—re-
Otherwise, it was largely business as usual else- mained unchanged from last year.
where among the elite schools: Yale Law School It remains to be see whether the influential rank-
retained its stranglehold on the top spot, with Stan- ings will generate much reaction among the legal
ford Law School and Harvard Law School repeating academy this go around. They are being released
at Nos. 2 and 3, respectively. The only change among at a time when every law school in the country is
the top five schools was Columbia Law School mov- struggling to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic and
ing up one slot to tie with the University of Chicago virtually all 200 schools are moving classes online.
Law School at No. 4.
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