After
months
of
drama
complete
with
law
school
boycotts
and
indefinite
delays,
the
2024
U.S.
News
law
school
rankings
were
released
in
May.
They
were
generally
received,
not
with
the
usual
ravenous
fanfare,
but
with
morbid
curiosity
given
the
changes
made
to
the
publication’s
rankings
methodology.
But
what
about
the
U.S.
News
specialty
rankings?
Those
haven’t
received
quite
as
much
attention
—
until
now.
Dean
Paul
Caron
of
Pepperdine
Law
has
created
an
omnibus
ranking
of
the
top
100
law
schools
for
the
13
specialty
programs
U.S.
News
compiles
rankings
for
each
year.
Those
13
programs
are,
in
alphabetical
order,
Business/Corporate
Law;
Clinical
Law;
Constitutional
Law;
Contracts/Commercial
Law;
Criminal
Law;
Dispute
Resolution;
Environmental
Law;
Health
Care
Law;
Intellectual
Property
Law;
International
Law;
Legal
Writing;
Tax
Law;
and
Trial
Advocacy.
Which
law
school
came
out
on
top?
Here
are
the
Top
10
law
schools
in
the
omnibus
specialty
ranking:
-
Georgetown
University -
Harvard
University -
Northwestern
University -
University
of
Michigan -
Stanford
University -
UC
Berkeley - UCLA
-
New
York
University -
Duke
University -
University
of
Virginia
Click
here
to
see
the
full
list
of
the
Top
100.
Congrats
to
Georgetown
Law!
The
school
may
have
been
booted
out
of
the
T14
(it
now
ranks
at
15),
but
it’s
#1
when
it
comes
to
legal
specialties.
And
where’s
Yale?
As
noted
by
the
ABA
Journal,
the
elite
school
comes
in
at
No.
16.
We
suppose
that’s
what
you
get
for
boycotting
U.S.
News.
2024
U.S.
News
Omnibus
Specialty
Rankings
[TaxProf
Blog]
These
law
schools
did
best
in
blog’s
‘omnibus
specialty
rankings’
based
on
US
News
data
[ABA
Journal]
Staci
Zaretsky is
a
senior
editor
at
Above
the
Law,
where
she’s
worked
since
2011.
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