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The Best Law Schools List, How Did Yours Do?
The rankings for this year, which were just made public, and they do not particularly provide a surprise as the most renowned law schools in the world have not changed.
The QS World University Rankings 2022 show that Ivy League, Russell Group, and major international law schools reign supreme.
Harvard has beaten Oxbridge to become the top law school in the world for the fifth consecutive year.
Cambridge placed third, with Oxford coming in second.
The only other UK institution to appear in this year’s top ten, which is dominated by US law schools, is LSE, which came in at number seven
Three more UK universities made the top 20 law schools further down the list.
They are King’s College London (15th), Edinburgh University, and UCL (13th) (17th).
Queen Mary finished in 26th place overall, ahead of fellow Russell Group competitors Durham (49th), Manchester (58th), Bristol, and Glasgow, who tied for 66th place.
Leeds (90th) and Nottingham (88th) complete the top 100 on the list, which includes 342 law schools.
The rankings, which are based on research impact, employer reputation, and academic reputation, cover 51 different subjects.
The results for this year are based on feedback from more than 130,000 academics and close to 70,000 graduate employers worldwide.
QS World University Rankings — Top 20 for law:
QS World University Rankings — Top 20 for law:
| Rank | Law school | An overall score (out of 100) |
| 1 | Harvard University | 99.8 |
| 2 | University of Oxford | 98 |
| 3 | University of Cambridge | 97.5 |
| 4 | Yale University | 93.6 |
| 5 | Stanford University | 93.3 |
| 6 | New York University | 91.8 |
| 7 | LSE | 90 |
| 8 | Columbia University | 89.8 |
| 9 | University of California, Berkeley | 89.3 |
| 10 | University of Chicago | 88.1 |
| 11 | National University of Singapore | 87.9 |
| 12 | University of Melbourne | 87.1 |
| 13 | UCL | 84.5 |
| 14 | University of New South Wales | 84.4 |
| 15 | King’s College London | 83.7 |
| 16 | University of Sydney | 83.3 |
| 17 | University of Edinburgh | 83.1 |
| 18 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | 82.5 |
| 19 | University of Toronto | 82.3 |
| 20 | University of Hong Kong | 82.2 |
