2021 U.S. News Law School Rankings

Robert Morse (Chief Data Strategist, U.S. News & World Report) announced yesterday that the new 2021 law school rankings will be released on Tuesday, March 17.  For the first time, they will include specialty rankings in business/corporate law, criminal law, constitutional law, and contracts/commercial law (in addition to Clinical Training, Dispute Resolution, Environmental Law, Health Care, Intellectual Property, International Law, Legal Writing, Tax, and Trial Advocacy).  Here is my coverage of the current 2020 law school rankings:

• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine’s Place In The 2020 U.S. News Law School Rankings (Mar. 12, 2019)
• 2020 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings) (Mar. 12, 2019)
• 2020 U.S. News Tax Rankings (Mar. 13, 2019)
• 2020 U.S. News Dispute Resolution Rankings (Mar. 14, 2019)
• 2020 U.S. News Clinical Training Rankings (Mar. 15, 2019)
• 2020 U.S. News Environmental Law Rankings (Mar. 16, 2019)
• 2020 U.S. News Health Care Law Rankings (Mar. 17, 2019)
• 2020 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings (Mar. 18, 2019)
• 2020 U.S. News International Law Rankings (Mar. 19, 2019)
• 2020 U.S. News Legal Writing Rankings (Mar. 20, 2019)
• 2020 U.S. News Trial Advocacy Rankings (Mar. 21, 2019)
• CJ Ryan (Roger Williams) & Brian Frye (Kentucky), Law School Rankings By Attractiveness To Students (25/50/75 LSAT/UGPA, Transfers In/Out) (Mar. 21, 2019)
• Caleb Griffin (Regent), Law School Rankings: Incentives, Culture, And Change In Legal Education (Mar. 21, 2019)
• Ted Sichelman (San Diego), A Defense And Explanation Of The U.S. News 'Citation' Ranking (Mar. 21, 2019)
• March Madness Law School Bracket (Mar. 21, 2019)
• $26.5 Million Donor Completes Naming Gift Ahead Of Schedule Due To Alabama Law School's Rise In The U.S. News Rankings (Mar. 30, 2019)
• Robert Jones (Northern Illinois), U.S. News Law School Academic Reputation Scores, 1998-2019 (Apr. 2, 2019)
• Bradley Areheart (Tennessee), The Top 100 Law Schools, Based On 5-, 10-, And 15-Year Rolling Average U.S. News Rankings (Apr. 15, 2019)
• The Best Law Schools For Practical Training (Apr. 16, 2019)
• U.S. News Offers More Guidance, Meeting With Law School Deans On New Scholarly Impact Rankings (May 2, 2019)
• Ousted Business School Dean Files $25 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against Temple For Unfairly Blaming Him In U.S. News Rankings Scandal (May 6, 2019)
• Robert Kuehn (Washington University), The U.S. News Law School Specialty Program Rankings: Is The Tail Wagging The Dog? (May 6, 2019)
• Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Visualizing Legal Employment Outcomes In California, DC-Maryland-Virginia, Florida, Illinois, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, And Texas (May 6, 2019)
• Robert Anderson (Pepperdine), 2019 Law School Rankings By Employment Outcomes (May 7, 2019)
• The Best LL.M. Programs (May 15, 2019)
• Christopher Iacono (J.D. 2019, Pennsylvania), How To Fix The U.S. News Law School Rankings (May 22, 2019)
• University Of Oklahoma Inflated Its Alumni Giving Data For 20 Years, U.S. News Strips Its #127 Ranking (May 24, 2019)
• Alabama Donor Doesn't Want His $21 Million Back; He Wants Law School To Increase Enrollment And 'Tell U.S. News, F*** You.’ (May 30, 2019)
• Former Student Files Class Action Against University Of Oklahoma For Submitting False Data To Inflate Its U.S. News Ranking For 20 Years (June 1, 2019)
• Derek Muller (Pepperdine), Significant One-Year Drops In U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation (June 6, 2019)
• Adversity' In Law School Admissions? (June 7, 2019)
• February 2019 California Bar Exam Results (June 20, 2019)
• Robert Morse Of U.S. News Receives Lifetime Ranker Achievement Award (July 24, 2019)
• Bryce Clayton Newell (Oregon), 2019 Meta-Ranking Of Flagship U.S. Law Reviews (July 25, 2019)
• Andrew Hayashi (Virginia) & Gregory Mitchell (Virginia), Maintaining Scholarly Integrity In The Age Of Bibliometrics (July 30, 2019)
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), A Dean's Perspective On Diversity, Socioeconomics, The LSAT, And The U.S. News Law School Rankings (July 31, 2019)
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), More On A Dean's Perspective On Diversity, Socioeconomics, The LSAT, And The U.S. News Law School Rankings (Aug. 6, 2019)
• Rob Anderson (Pepperdine), Citation Engagement v. One-Off Citations (Aug. 6, 2017)
• 2019 World Law School Rankings (Aug. 20, 2019)
• The Impact Of The U.S. News Rankings On The Cost Of Law School (Aug. 21, 2019)
• The 30 Most Fun Law Schools (Sept. 3, 2019)
• J. B. Ruhl, Michael Vandenbergh & Sarah Dunaway (Vanderbilt), Extending Leiter-Sisk Citation Counts To Interdisciplinary Scholarship (Sept. 16, 2019)
• July 2019 Florida Bar Exam Results: Florida International Is #1 For 5th Year In A Row (Sept. 16, 2019)
• The Top Law Schools For Human Rights (Sept. 21, 2019)
• University Of Florida Law School Continues Its Rise In Student Quality And Rankings (Oct. 1, 2019)
• Law School Trial Team Rankings: Stetson Is #1 (Oct. 9, 2019)
• Minnesota Law School Enrolls Largest 1L Class Since 2011 As Part Of Plan To Eliminate Multi-Million Dollar Deficit By 2021 While Defending Its Top 20 Ranking (Oct. 10, 2019)
• LawProfBlawg (Anonymous Professor, Top 100 Law School), The U.S. News Citation Ranking Is A 'Rigged Metrics Game' That 'Imperils Legal Academia' (Oct. 16, 2019)
• LawProfBlawg (Anonymous Professor, Top 100 Law School), The Problems Of Measuring Scholarly Impact (‘Stuff’) (Oct. 16, 2019)
• July 2019 Pennsylvania Bar Exam: Pittsburgh #1 (Oct. 17, 2019)
• Society For Empirical Legal Studies Urges U.S. News To Use Google Scholar Rather Than HeinOnline In Scholarly Impact Rankings (Oct. 29, 2019)
• Clinical Legal Education Association Statement On The U.S. News Clinical Program Rankings (Nov. 1, 2019)
• Princeton Review's Best 167 Law Schools (2020 Edition) (Nov. 6, 2019)
• Paul Heald (Illinois) & Ted Sichelman (San Diego), The Top 100 Law School Faculties In Citations (Hein) And Impact (SSRN Downloads) (Nov. 11, 2019)
• Gregory Sisk (St. Thomas), 'A Valid, If Imperfect, Proxy For Faculty Scholarly Impact On A National Scale' (Nov. 11, 2019)
• Adam Chilton (Chicago) & Jonathan Masur (Chicago), What Should Law School Rankings Measure And How Should We Measure it: A Comment On Heald & Sichelman's Rankings (Nov. 12, 2019)
• Bridget Crawford (Pace), SSRN And The (Arbitrary) Determination Of 'Scholarly' Merit (Nov. 20, 2019)
• Top Law Schools: Tax Law (Dec. 4, 2019)
• Top Law Schools: Business Law (Dec. 5, 2019)
• July 2019 New York Bar Exam Results: Columbia #1 (Dec. 5, 2019)
• July 2019 California Bar Exam Results (Dec. 14, 2019)
• July 2019 California Bar Exam Results For Out-Of-State Law Schools (Dec. 15, 2019)
• Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), 2019 Transfer Data Show Continued Decline In Number And Percentage Of Transfers (Dec. 16, 2019)
• Jerry Organ (St. Thomas), The Benefits Of Greater Transparency In Reporting Of Law Graduate Employment Outcomes (Dec. 19, 2019)
• Changes To U.S. News Law School Rankings Met With Skepticism (Jan. 9, 2020)
• Dispatches From The AALS Annual Meeting: Rankings, Rankings, And More Rankings (Jan. 13, 2020)
• The Fifty Hardest Law Schools To Get Into (Jan. 29, 2020)
• 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Admissions Selectivity (Feb. 3, 2020)
• 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Academic Experience (Feb. 4, 2020)
• 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Professors (Teaching) (Feb. 5, 2020)
• 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Professors (Accessibility) (Feb. 6, 2020)
• 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Career Rating (Feb. 7, 2020)
• 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Professors (Teaching And Accessibility) (Feb. 10, 2020)
• 2020 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking (Feb. 11, 2020)
• Deborah Merritt (Ohio State), Ranking Academic Impact (Feb. 19, 2020)
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Bar Exam Overperformance (Feb. 19, 2020)
• Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Law School Rankings By Ultimate Bar Passage Rates (Feb. 20, 2020)