What are some “up and coming” law schools outside of the traditional Top-14?
Anyone who thinks that “top 14” demarcates a relevant category of law schools has already made a mistake! Texas and UCLA, for example, are better than Georgetown and Cornell and Duke along a variety of dimensions, and Vanderbilt and Southern California are competitive with these schools in various ways as well. There are schools that have done a good job of gaming the US News rankings, but very few of them are actually “up and coming.” (Alabama might now be an exception—their Dean has parlayed improved US News rankings into more money from the university and a better faculty.) Duke, which had the weakest faculty of any putatively top law school ten years ago, has really turned things around over the last decade. I don’t know that they’ll improve further, but they now have a genuine claim on the ‘top ten,’ and are clearly better than the 17th–place showing in the reputational survey I conducted some seven years ago. UC Irvine, under Erwin Chemerinsky, is clearly off to a very strong st
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