Tuesday, March 24, 2020
2021 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings
The new 2021 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings include the criminal law programs at 188 law schools (the faculty survey had a 53% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
Rank | Score | School |
1 | 4.5 | NYU |
1 | 4.5 | Stanford |
3 | 4.4 | Harvard |
3 | 4.4 | UC-Berkeley |
5 | 4.3 | Georgetown |
6 | 4.2 | Columbia |
6 | 4.2 | Penn |
6 | 4.2 | Virginia |
6 | 4.2 | Yale |
10 | 4.1 | Duke |
10 | 4.1 | UCLA |
10 | 4.1 | Chicago |
10 | 4.1 | Michigan |
10 | 4.1 | Vanderbilt |
15 | 4.0 | Ohio State |
16 | 3.9 | Northwestern |
17 | 3.8 | Cornell |
17 | 3.8 | Fordham |
17 | 3.8 | UC-Irvine |
17 | 3.8 | Texas |
17 | 3.8 | William & Mary |
22 | 3.7 | George Washington |
22 | 3.7 | UC-Davis |
22 | 3.7 | Minnesota |
22 | 3.7 | North Carolina |
26 | 3.6 | American |
26 | 3.6 | Brooklyn |
26 | 3.6 | Washington Univ. |
29 | 3.5 | Wake Forest |
30 | 3.4 | Boston University |
30 | 3.4 | Colorado |
30 | 3.4 | Cardozo |
33 | 3.3 | Arizona State |
33 | 3.3 | Emory |
33 | 3.3 | Loyola-L.A. |
33 | 3.3 | UC-Hastings |
33 | 3.3 | Florida |
33 | 3.3 | Georgia |
33 | 3.3 | Illinois |
33 | 3.3 | USC |
33 | 3.3 | Utah |
33 | 3.3 | Wisconsin |
43 | 3.2 | Boston College |
43 | 3.2 | Indiana (Maurer) |
43 | 3.2 | SMU |
43 | 3.2 | Alabama |
43 | 3.2 | Denver |
43 | 3.2 | Iowa |
43 | 3.2 | Notre Dame |
43 | 3.2 | Richmond |
43 | 3.2 | Washington |
43 | 3.2 | Washington & Lee |
2021 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:
- Omnibus Specialty Rankings (compilation of all 13 specialty rankings)
- Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings
- Business/Corporate Law
- Clinical Law
- Constitutional Law
- Contracts/Commercial Law
- Criminal Law
- Dispute Resolution
- Environmental Law
- Health Care Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- International Law
- Legal Writing
- Tax Law
- Trial Advocacy
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2020/03/2021-us-news-criminal-law-rankings.html