Law School Rankings

It's been a tough week for UCLA and Louisville, both of which saw their law schools fall out of the Top 20.  It was a particularly nasty fall for the Westwood school, which last week was ranked 10th in the country, and particularly galling when its cross-town rival keeps a firm hold on Number One.  (Left: USC Dean Robert K. Rasmussen).

This week's best U.S. law schools, with last week's rank in parentheses:

1 (1) Southern California (Gould)
2 (2) LSU (Hebert)
3 (3) Florida (Levin)
4 (4) Oklahoma
5 (5) West Virginia
6 (6) Texas
7 (7) Cal-Berkeley
8 (9) Ohio State (Moritz)
9 (8) Wisconsin
10 (11) Oregon
11 (11) Boston College
12 (18) Kentucky
13 (17) Georgia
14 (15) Hawai'i (Richardson)
15 (11) South Carolina
16 (20) Missouri-Columbia
17 (10) Penn State (Dickinson)
18 (14) Alabama
19 (19) Nebraska
20 (-) Arizona State (O’Connor)

[Frank Snyder]