Thursday, April 30, 2020
2020 World Law School Rankings
Quacquarelli Symonds has released the 2020 World Law School Rankings as part of its World University Rankings. The methodology is 50% academic reputation, 30% employer reputation, 15% h-index per faculty member, and 5% citations per paper. The rankings consist of 300 law schools, 48 in the United States. Here are the U.S. law schools, along with each school's position in the latest SSRN Top 750 Law School Faculty Rankings -- Total Downloads):
QS Ranking | School | SSRN Ranking |
1 | Harvard | 1 |
4 | Yale | 5 |
5 | Stanford | 2 |
7 | UC-Berkeley | 4 |
8 | Columbia | 6 |
9 | NYU | 3 |
11 | Chicago | 7 |
18 | Georgetown | 9 |
26 | UCLA | 15 |
29 | Michigan | 13 |
31 | Penn | 11 |
32 | Duke | 18 |
41 | Cornell | 27 |
46 | Northwestern | 14 |
51-100 | American | 44 |
51-100 | Boston University | 29 |
51-100 | George Washington | 8 |
51-100 | Texas | 31 |
51-100 | Virginia | 24 |
101-150 | Fordham | 17 |
101-150 | Notre Dame | 55 |
101-150 | UC-Irvine | 28 |
101-150 | USC | 30 |
101-150 | Washington | 66 |
101-150 | Washington Univ. | 41 |
101-150 | Wisconsin | 102 |
151-200 | Boston College | 84 |
151-200 | Florida | 53 |
151-200 | Michigan State | 76 |
151-200 | North Carolina | 68 |
201-250 | Florida State | 51 |
201-250 | George Mason | 20 |
201-250 | Illinois | 33 |
201-250 | Loyola-Chicago | 65 |
201-250 | Minnesota | 26 |
201-250 | Ohio State | 37 |
201-250 | Penn State (Univ. Park) | 96 |
201-250 | UC-Davis | 32 |
201-250 | Vanderbilt | 16 |
251-300 | Arizona State | 57 |
251-300 | CUNY | 167 |
251-300 | Arizona | 46 |
251-300 | Colorado | 71 |
251-300 | Emory | 56 |
251-300 | Indiana (Maurer) | 34 |
251-300 | Iowa | 106 |
251-300 | UIC-John Marshall | 162 |
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2020/04/2020-world-law-school-rankings.html
I’d Ike to see the non-US schools, many of which are surely better than several on this list.
Posted by: Mike Livingston | May 1, 2020 2:48:48 AM