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The Best Law Schools For Intellectual Property (2020)

Are you surprised by the law schools at the top?

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There are lots of factors that go into deciding what your perfect law school is. While net cost and job outcomes likely will — and should — dominate any decision calculus, there are still other things to look at when making your final determination.

If you’re lucky enough to know the exact practice area you’re interested in post-graduation, then you probably want to take a gander at the U.S. News Specialty Rankings. (Though it should be noted what specialty you want to actually practice as a real world attorney may be vastly different than whatever ideas you have before you enter law school.)

Today, we are looking at the intellectual property rankings. As noted by TaxProf Blog, law school specialty rankings should be looked at with a grain of salt:

Law school specialty rankings … are based solely on peer assessments by law school faculty who teach in that specialty area…. law school faculty members who teach in each specialty area rated the other law schools in that specialty area on a 5-point scale. Those schools with the highest average scores among those raters who rated them appear in the rankings and are ranked in descending order based on their average peer score they received in that specialty area….This new methodology produced a significantly larger number of schools that were ranked in each specialty area – in some cases five or six times more. … [A]ll programs that received 10 or more ratings are numerically ranked in that specialty. Schools with less than 10 ratings in a specialty aren’t listed.

Without further ado, here are the top law schools in the specialty of intellectual property:


For the full ranking, check out U.S. News.

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