Wednesday, April 1, 2020
2021 U.S. News Legal Writing Rankings
The new 2021 U.S. News Legal Writing Rankings include the legal writing programs at 179 law schools (the faculty survey had a 54% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
| Rank | Score | School |
| 1 | 4.3 | UNLV |
| 2 | 4.2 | Oregon |
| 3 | 4.1 | Seattle |
| 3 | 4.1 | Stetson |
| 5 | 4.0 | Suffolk |
| 6 | 3.9 | Wake Forest |
| 7 | 3.8 | Arizona State |
| 7 | 3.8 | Denver |
| 7 | 3.8 | UIC-John Marshall |
| 7 | 3.8 | North Carolina |
| 11 | 3.7 | UC-Irvine |
| 12 | 3.6 | Drake |
| 12 | 3.6 | Georgetown |
| 12 | 3.6 | Marquette |
| 12 | 3.6 | Temple |
| 12 | 3.6 | Texas Tech |
| 12 | 3.6 | Michigan |
| 18 | 3.5 | Drexel |
| 18 | 3.5 | Lewis & Clark |
| 18 | 3.5 | Mercer |
| 18 | 3.5 | Nova |
| 18 | 3.5 | Rutgers |
| 18 | 3.5 | Washburn |
| 24 | 3.4 | Indiana (McKinney) |
| 24 | 3.4 | Northwestern |
| 24 | 3.4 | Arizona |
| 24 | 3.4 | Arkansas (Little Rock) |
| 24 | 3.4 | Missouri (Kansas City) |
| 29 | 3.3 | Duquesne |
| 29 | 3.3 | Texas A&M |
| 29 | 3.3 | Villanova |
| 32 | 3.2 | Brooklyn |
| 32 | 3.2 | Chicago-Kent |
| 32 | 3.2 | St. John's |
| 32 | 3.2 | Arkansas (Fayetteville) |
| 32 | 3.2 | Tennessee |
| 32 | 3.2 | Pacific |
| 38 | 3.1 | Boston College |
| 38 | 3.1 | New York Law School |
| 38 | 3.1 | Northeastern |
| 38 | 3.1 | Ohio State |
| 38 | 3.1 | Baltimore |
| 38 | 3.1 | Memphis |
| 44 | 3.0 | Duke |
| 44 | 3.0 | Elon |
| 44 | 3.0 | Emory |
| 44 | 3.0 | George Washington |
| 44 | 3.0 | Loyola-L.A. |
| 44 | 3.0 | Santa Clara |
| 44 | 3.0 | Texas |
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/2020/04/2021-us-news-legal-writing-rankings.html
Pretty funny seeing my law school in the top 50. In all seriousness, I was assigned more writing in high school than law school. A lot more. And in high school, the teachers did the grading; as I recall, most of our mandatory 1L legal writing course output was graded by 2L and 3L teaching assistants.
Posted by: Unemployed Northeastern | Apr 1, 2020 8:40:41 AM