These Law Schools Prove They Have Staying Power

New 10-year historical rankings.

onMay 5, 2020 at 4:16 PMMay 5, 2020 at 2:38 PM

Good news for those of you using the quarantine to argue about esoteric differences in elite law schools — there are new law school rankings out!

Well, to be fair, these are updated rankings. Bradley A. Areheart, of the University of Tennessee College of Law, has engaged in this exercise before which involves creating a ranking of law schools based on their 10-year rolling average overall USNWR ranking. This is a great resource for those looking to see not just how a law school is doing right now, but how the law school have held up over time.

And for those of you who are sticklers for details, Areheart describes his methodology for dealing with ties: “If two law school’s 10-year rolling averages were within 1/10 of a point, I tied them and then attempted to break those ties based on the current year’s peer reputation scores. You’ll see that where there was a tie, I have included the peer rep scores in parentheses for those schools. If the peer rep scores were the same, I allowed the tie to remain.”

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So, without further ado, here are the historical rankings of the top 30 law schools. (Check out the full ranking here.)

Rank	School	10-Year Rank
1	Yale	1.0
2	Stanford	2.3
3	Harvard	2.5
4	Columbia (4.7)	4.3
5	Chicago (4.6)	4.2
6	NYU	6.0
7	Penn	7.0
8	Virginia	8.2
9	Berkeley (4.5)	8.9
10	Michigan (4.4)	8.9
11	Duke	10.5
12	Northwestern	11.2
13	Cornell	13.1
14	Georgetown	13.9
15	Texas	15.1
16	UCLA	15.8
17	Vanderbilt	16.6
18	Wash U (3.7)	18.5
19	USC (3.6)	18.4
20	Minnesota	20.4
21	Notre Dame	22.5
22	GW	22.7
23	Emory	23.1
24	Boston University	23.8
25	Iowa	25.2
26	UC-Irvine	26.2
27	Alabama	26.7
28	Arizona St	28
29	Indiana- Bloomington	29.5
30	Boston College	29.8

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