2025 Princeton Review Law School Rankings
Princeton Review: “The Princeton Review—known for its education services and annual school rankings in dozens of categories—today reported its Best Law Schools for 2025.
The company names 168 law schools as “best” and presents 14 categories of ranking lists for this project. Each list names the top 10 schools in a category.
The Princeton Review’s editors selected the schools receiving “best” designations and tallied the project’s ranking lists based on data from the company’s surveys of administrators at 197 law schools in 2025 and its surveys of 19,600 students enrolled in the schools over the past three years. More than 60 data points were factored into the school selections and ranking tallies.
Of the 66 law schools that made one or more of the ranking lists, Stanford University and the University of California, Los Angeles appear on the greatest number of lists (7). Among the schools that earned #1 rankings on the lists, the University of Virginia is #1 on three lists: Best Professors, Best Classroom Experience, and Best Quality of Life. A summary below shows the 14 ranking list categories and the #1 schools on them.”
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ABA’s Hands-On Learning Delay Draws Mixed Reactions From Law School Professors
Reuters: “Some U.S. law professors said they were discouraged on Monday after a nationwide plan to require more hands-on training for law students stalled before the American Bar Association, while others said the ABA was right to delay a vote on the requirement amid widespread opposition.
The plan would double the number of required hands-on learning credits for law students in the United States. The proposal was withdrawn shortly before a meeting of the ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar on Friday, when it was slated to discuss the proposal.
“I’m disappointed but not surprised,” said Gautam Hans, a clinical professor at Cornell Law School and a proponent of doubling the experiential requirements. “The level of opposition was so vocal — and in some cases, extreme — that I suspect the ABA, beleaguered in this moment, felt it had to take a pause.”
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The Most Conservative and Liberal Law Schools
Above the Law: “The country has never been more divided politically, and whether they’re strongly in favor of President Trump’s policies or adamantly opposed to them, with a battle for the rule of law at stake, people have been inspired to go to law school as a means to somehow change our country’s future.
As our readers know, the latest Princeton Review law school rankings are out, and today, we’ll be focusing on what are perhaps the most important rankings of them all: the law schools with the most conservative students and the law schools with the most liberal students. During these times of political division and strife, why not attend a law school where there’s a high likelihood that your classmates will share your political ideology?”
To read Above the Law’s analysis of The Princeton Review’s survey results, click here.
Remote LSAT Suspended In China
Reuters: An aspiring law student from China raised alarms earlier this year about offers proliferating on Chinese language social media sites for help cheating on the online test for admission to U.S. law schools.
The cheating sites are “a full-on industry,” charging as much as $8,000 or more for nearly perfect LSAT scores, he wrote in February on a Reddit forum dedicated to the exam. The student, who is now studying law in Texas and requested anonymity, told Reuters that he warned the Law School Admission Council, the nonprofit that administers the Law School Admissions Test.
Last week, the council, based in Newtown, Pennsylvania, announced it is suspending the remote LSAT in mainland China after the upcoming exam in October due to “increasingly aggressive” cheating operations. It said it would bolster security for the October test.”
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