Thursday, March 21, 2019
2020 U.S. News International Law Rankings
Update: 2021 U.S. News International Law Rankings
The new 2020 U.S. News International Law Rankings include the international law programs at 186 law schools (the faculty survey had a 44% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
| Rank | Score | School |
| 1 | 4.8 | NYU |
| 2 | 4.5 | Harvard |
| 3 | 4.4 | Columbia |
| 4 | 4.3 | Yale |
| 5 | 4.2 | George Washington |
| 5 | 4.2 | Georgetown |
| 5 | 4.2 | Michigan |
| 8 | 4.1 | Duke |
| 9 | 4.0 | American |
| 10 | 3.9 | UC-Berkeley |
| 10 | 3.9 | Virginia |
| 12 | 3.8 | Stanford |
| 13 | 3.7 | Cornell |
| 14 | 3.6 | Pennsylvania |
| 14 | 3.6 | UCLA |
| 16 | 3.5 | Chicago |
| 16 | 3.5 | Texas |
| 16 | 3.5 | Vanderbilt |
| 19 | 3.4 | Case Western |
| 19 | 3.4 | Fordham |
| 19 | 3.4 | Georgia |
| 19 | 3.4 | Temple |
| 19 | 3.4 | Washington Univ. |
| 24 | 3.3 | Minnesota |
| 24 | 3.3 | Northwestern |
| 24 | 3.3 | Notre Dame |
| 27 | 3.1 | Arizona State |
| 27 | 3.1 | Indiana (Maurer) |
| 27 | 3.1 | UC-Davis |
| 27 | 3.1 | Wisconsin |
| 31 | 3.0 | Boston College |
| 31 | 3.0 | Boston University |
| 31 | 3.0 | Emory |
| 31 | 3.0 | Miami |
| 31 | 3.0 | Tulane |
| 31 | 3.0 | UC-Hastings |
| 31 | 3.0 | UC-Irvine |
| 38 | 2.9 | Pacific |
| 38 | 2.9 | Washington & Lee |
| 40 | 2.8 | Denver |
| 40 | 2.8 | Iowa |
| 40 | 2.8 | Santa Clara |
| 40 | 2.8 | Univ. of Washington |
| 40 | 2.8 | William & Mary |
| 45 | 2.7 | Colorado |
| 45 | 2.7 | Illinois |
| 45 | 2.7 | Pittsburgh |
| 48 | 2.6 | Arizona |
| 48 | 2.6 | Cardozo |
| 48 | 2.6 | North Carolina |
| 48 | 2.6 | Ohio State |
| 48 | 2.6 | San Diego |
| 48 | 2.6 | USC |
As I blogged last fall, U.S. News has dramatically changed their ranking of nine law school specialty programs:
Law school specialty rankings ... are based solely on peer assessments by law school faculty who teach in that specialty area. The peer assessment surveys for the specialty law school area rankings were conducted in fall 2018 and early 2019 by U.S. News.
This year for the first time, law school faculty members who teach in each specialty area rated the other law schools in that specialty area on a 5-point scale. Those schools with the highest average scores among those raters who rated them appear in the rankings and are ranked in descending order based on their average peer score they received in that specialty area. In all the previous law school specialty rankings, the law school raters chose their top 15 in a specialty area. This new methodology produced a significantly larger number of schools that were ranked in each specialty area – in some cases five or six times more. ... [A]ll programs that received 10 or more ratings are numerically ranked in that specialty. Schools with less than 10 ratings in a specialty aren't listed.
Other 2020 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:
- Clinical Training
- Dispute Resolution
- Environmental Law
- Health Care Law
- Intellectual Property
- Tax Law
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2019/03/2020-us-news-international-law-rankings.html
Just a caution: these ratings reflect size and influence but not always quality of education. You can learn a lot about international law at Rutgers or Pepperdine while learning nothing at Yale. Just saying.
Posted by: Mike Livingston | Mar 21, 2019 4:41:50 AM