American Top 20: The Law School Rankings

Law school rankings are a dime a dozen, and most of them are entirely pointless, rating law schools on things that don’t matter at all to most law students — like how many law review citations their faculty members garner for articles that the students will never, ever unless they’re assigned in class.  So we at ContractsProf, for the second year in a row, offer our annual ranking of the Top Twenty American law schools based on something that is important to law students:  the quality of the football team.

In this year’s first ranking, USC (which has won more undisputed National College Football Championships than any school except Yale), claims the top spot, a notch ahead of Louisiana State.  Here, ranked by CP’s Proprietary Football Power Ranking Index, are America’s Top Twenty Law Schools:

1    Southern California
2    LSU (Hebert)
3    Oklahoma
      West Virginia
      Florida (Levin)
6    Texas
7    Wisconsin
8    Cal-Berkeley
9    Louisville (Brandeis)
10  Ohio State (Moritz)
11  UCLA
12  Penn State (Dickinson)
13  Nebraska
14  Arkansas-Fayetteville
15  South Carolina
      Oregon
      Boston College
18  Tennessee
      Hawai’i (Richardson)
20   Missouri-Columbia

[Frank Snyder]