Vault.com: Top 25 Law Schools (2008)

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1. Stanford University Law School  
2. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Law School  
3. New York University School of Law  
4. University of Virginia School of Law  
5. University of Chicago Law School  
6. Harvard Law School  
7. Columbia Law School  
8. University of California, Berkeley - Boalt Hall School of Law  
9. Northwestern University School of Law  
10. Yale Law School  
11. Vanderbilt University Law School  
12. Duke University Law School  
13. University of Pennsylvania Law School  
14. Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington  
15. Cornell University Law School  
16. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Law School  
17. Georgetown University Law Center  
18. University of California, Los Angeles School of Law  
19. University of Iowa College of Law  
20. George Washington University Law School  
21. Boston University School of Law  
22. University of Texas at Austin School of Law  
23. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill School of Law  
24. Emory University School of Law  
25. University of Wisconsin Law School  

National Rankings Formula

To determine the national rankings, Vault calculated a score for each school based on the following formula:

• 50% of the score is based on the number of votes a law school received from recruiters in its own region, when compared to the votes received by other law schools in the region.
• 50% of the score is based on the number of votes a law school received from recruiters outside its region, when compared to the votes received by law schools nationally.