‘U.S. News & World Report’ Posts 2010 Law-School Rankings

The law schools at Yale, Harvard, and Stanford Universities topped the list in U.S. News & World Report’s annual law-school rankings, published today. The rankings have provoked heated debates about whether law schools “game” the system by, for instance, accepting students with lower Law School Admission Test scores and undergraduate grades into their part-time programs. On its Web site, U.S. News describes steps it plans to take to prevent law schools from manipulating their data. The magazine also ranks schools on specialties such as environmental law, intellectual-property law, and tax law.