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These Law Schools Prove They Have Staying Power

New 10-year historical rankings.

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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.”

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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