Brian Leiter The Top 40 Law Schools, 2000-02

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Brian Leiter's Top 40 Law Schools

Peer groupings indicate schools of roughly comparable quality. * indicates the school received extra credit for teaching excellence, as measured by Princeton Review surveys of student satisfaction. Keep in mind that the 1999-2000 rank was based on faculty quality data compiled for the period between 1995 and 1998, which explains some of the more dramatic changes below. (See Appendix C for more details.)

Group 1 (1-4)		Rank in 1999-2000
1.	Yale University	2
2.	Harvard University	3
2.	University of Chicago	1
4.	Stanford University	4
Group 2 (5-7)
5.	Columbia University	5
6.	New York University	5
7.	University of California, Berkeley	8
Group 3 (8-15)
8.	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	7
8.	University of Virginia*	8
10.	University of Pennsylvania	11
10.	University of Texas, Austin*	11
12.	Cornell University*	10
13.	Northwestern University	13
14.	Georgetown University	13
15.	Duke University	15
Group 4 (16-20)
16.	University of California, Los Angeles	15
17.	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	17
17.	Vanderbilt University*	18
19.	Boston University*	27
19.	University of Southern California	18
Group 5 (21-26)
21.	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	32
22.	Emory University	30
22.	George Washington University	21
24.	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	21
25.	University of Colorado, Boulder	20
25.	University of Notre Dame*	21
Group 6 (27-31)
27.	College of William & Mary*	30
27.	University of Arizona	26
27.	University of California, Hastings	29
27.	Washington University, St. Louis	34
31.	University of Georgia	38
Group 7 (32-38)
32.	Fordham University	38
32.	Washington & Lee University*	32
34.	Boston College	35
35.	University of California, Davis	27
35.	University of Wisconsin, Madison	25
37.	Wake Forest University	38
38.	University of Iowa	24
Group 8 (39-40)
39.	George Mason University	47
40.	University of Washington, Seattle	35
40.	University of Utah	35

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