The 2024-2025 U.S. News law school rankings were released in earlier this month, but their publication came and went without the usual ravenous fanfare. Perhaps today’s law students have simply had enough of the general rankings. Maybe they need something more specialized to sate their interest, like the U.S. News specialty rankings. Those haven’t received quite as much attention — until now.
Dean Paul Caron of Pepperdine Law has created an omnibus ranking of the top 100 law schools for the 13 specialty programs U.S. News compiles rankings for each year. Those 13 programs are, in alphabetical order, 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; and Trial Advocacy.
Which law school came out on top?
2024-25 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings [TaxProf Blog]
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