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The George Washington University Law School was founded in the 1820s but closed in 1826 due to low enrollment. [7] The law school's first two professors were William Cranch, chief justice of the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia and second reporter of the U.S. Supreme Court, and William Thomas Carroll, a descendant of Charles Carroll the Settler and clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court ...
The National Law Journal ranked GW Law 21st for law schools that sent the highest percentage of new graduates to NLJ 250 law firms, the largest and most prominent law practices in the U.S. [131] George Washington is ranked 61st for the "Best Global Universities for Social Sciences and Public Health 2018" by U.S. News & World Report. [132]
Yale Law School. Law school rankings are a specific subset of college and university rankings dealing specifically with law schools.Like college and university rankings, law school rankings can be based on empirical data, subjectively-perceived qualitative data (often survey research of educators, law professors, lawyers, students, or others), or some combination of these.
The 2023 US News & World Report law school ranking puts Yale in the first spot and Harvard fourth. But the two institutions are no longer interested in the list, and have denounced the system.
The School of Law at the Harvard Law School kept the No. 2 spot, but had to share it with the law school at Stanford University. U.S. News Releases 2016 Best Law Schools Rankings
U.S. News & World Report will change how its rankings of law schools are calculated in response to a boycott by a number of top programs. The magazine’s changes in methodology, announced Monday ...
American University Washington College of Law – No curve. Estimated class rankings are published after each semester. [116] Estimates of numerical rankings are only reported after graduation. [117] University at Buffalo Law School – no curve, but benchmarks for top 5%, 10%, 15%, 20% and 25% for each class are released after each semester
Ian C. Ballon (1986), Internet lawyer and author of several law books, including a 4-volume legal treatise on e-commerce law; Jacob Burns (1924), corporate attorney, educator and philanthropist; Charles Colson, leader in the Christian right movement, former Special Counsel to Richard Nixon, and jailed for conspiring during the Watergate scandal