2024-25 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings

The new 2024-25 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings include the criminal law programs at 196 law schools (the faculty survey had a 49% response rate). Here are the Top 50:

Rank	School
1	NYU
2	Harvard
2	Stanford
4	UC-Berkeley
5	Georgetown
5	Michigan
7	Columbia
7	Duke
7	Penn
7	UCLA
7	Virginia
12	Chicago
12	Yale
14	Vanderbilt
15	Fordham
15	Northwestern
15	Ohio State
18	UC-Davis
18	Washington Univ.
20	Brooklyn
20	Cornell
20	North Carolina
20	Texas
24	American
24	Arizona State
24	Boston University
24	George Washington
24	Illinois
24	Minnesota
24	UC-Irvine
24	Wake Forest
24	William & Mary
33	SMU
34	Emory
34	Indiana (Maurer)
34	Iowa
34	Loyola-L.A.
34	Maryland
34	Tulane
34	USC
34	Utah
34	Wisconsin
43	Alabama
43	Cardozo
43	Denver
43	Florida State
43	University of Arizona
48	Florida
48	Georgia
48	Howard
48	Rutgers

2023-24 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings

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