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10 Best Law Schools in the World

This is a list of the best law schools found in the world.

1. Stanford University

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Stanford University, officially known as Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university located in the census-designated place of Stanford, California, near the city of Palo Alto. Stanford is ranked among the top universities in the world.

Stanford was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever when he was only15 years old.

Stanford Law School employs more than 90 full-time and part-time faculty members and enrolls over 550 students who are working toward their Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) degree.

Also, the institution confers four advanced legal degrees. That is, a Master of Laws (LL.M.), a Master of Studies in Law (M.S.L.), a Master of the Science of Law (J.S.M.), and a Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.).

Every fall, Stanford Law enrols a J.D. class of approximately 180 students, giving Stanford the smallest student body of any law school ranked in the top fourteen.

Stanford also maintains eleven full-time legal clinics, inclusive of the nation’s first and most active Supreme Court litigation clinic.

2. University of Cambridge

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The University of Cambridge is a collegiate research university in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world’s third-oldest surviving university.

The institution grew out of an association of scholars who left the University of Oxford after a dispute with the townspeople.

In addition, Cambridge is ranked among the most prestigious universities in the world and currently, it sits as the world’s second-best university, and the best in Europe, according to the QS World University Rankings.

Something unique about Cambridge is that it has won more Nobel Prizes than any other institution.

The study of law at the University of Cambridge began in the thirteenth century. The faculty sits the oldest law professorship in the English-speaking world, the Regius Professorship of Civil Law, which was founded by Henry VIII in 1540 with a stipend of £40 per year for which the holder is still chosen by The Crown.

Today, the faculty incorporates the Institute of Criminology as well as 11 Research Centres, including the world’s leading research institute for international law, The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law.

3. New York University

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New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. It was chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature and was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin.

NYU has become the largest private university in the United States by enrollment, with a total of 51,848 enrolled students, including 26,733 undergraduate students and 25,115 graduate students, in 2019.

It receives the most applications of any private institution in the United States and admission is usually considered highly selective

Established in 1835, New York University school of law is the oldest law school in New York City and the oldest surviving law school in New York State.

Globally speaking, NYU Law is ranked as the fifth-best law school in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) for subject Law in 2021, after having ranked as the world’s fourth-best law school in 2020.

4. University of Oxford

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The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, thus making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world’s second-oldest university in continuous operation.

It grew rapidly from 1167 when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris.

After disputes between students and Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics fled north-east to Cambridge where they established what became the University of Cambridge.

Along with its counterpart at Cambridge, the University of Oxford is unique in its use of personalised tutorials, where students are taught by faculty fellows in groups of one to three on a weekly basis, as the main form of instruction in its undergraduate and graduate courses.

practical information:

Address: St Cross Building St.Cross Rd, Oxford OX1 3UL, United Kingdom

Phone: +44 1865 271491

5. University of Melbourne

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The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia.

Founded in 1853, it is Australia’s second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria, Southeast Australia.

Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb north of Melbourne’s central business district, with several other campuses located across Victoria.

Melbourne Law School (MLS or Melbourne Law) is one of the professional graduate schools of the University of Melbourne.

Located in Carlton, Victoria, MLS is Australia’s oldest law school and offers J.D., LL.M, Ph.D, and LL.D degrees.

In 2021-2022, The World University Rankings ranked the law school as 5th best in the world and 1st both in Australia and Asia-Pacific.

In addition to this, MLS has produced a number of notable alumni in law and politics, including four Prime Ministers of Australia, three Governors-General, four Chief Justices of Australia and thirteen Commonwealth Attorneys-General

practical information:

Address: 185 Pelham St, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9035 5511

Dean: Penelope Nicholson

Undergraduate tuition and fees: Local tuition 9,425 USD, International tuition 32,640 USD (2012 – 13)

6.  University College, London

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University College London, which operates as UCL, is a public university in London, United Kingdom.

It is a member institution of the federal University of London, and is the second-largest university in the United Kingdom by total enrolment and the largest by postgraduate enrolment.

7. Harvard University

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Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, Harvard University is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world.

Harvard’s law school was founded in 1817 and is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. It is considered one of the top legal institutions in the world.

Harvard Law School’s founding is traditionally linked to the funding of Harvard’s first professorship in law, paid for from a bequest from the estate of Isaac Royall Jr., a colonial American landowner and slaveowner.

Today, HLS is home to the largest academic law library in the world as well as 135 full-time faculty members.

8. National University of Singapore (NUS)

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The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national research university in Singapore.

Founded in 1905, NUS is the oldest autonomous university in the country. It is largely a comprehensive research university, offering degree programmes in a wide range of disciplines at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including in the sciences, medicine and dentistry, design and environment, law, arts and social sciences, engineering, business, computing, and music.

It plays a key role in the further development of modern technology and science, offering a global approach to education and research, with a focus on expertise and perspectives of Asia.

It has consistently featured in the world’s top 100 universities as ranked by the Academic Ranking of World Universities, the QS World University Rankings, and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

The National University of Singapore Faculty of Law (NUS Law) is Singapore’s oldest law school. It was initially established in 1956 as the Department of Law in the University of Malaya.

After its establishment, NUS Law was Singapore’s only law school for half a century, until the subsequent establishment of the SMU School of Law in 2007 and the SUSS School of Law in 2017.

The current dean of NUS Law is Simon Chesterman, who will serve his fourth term until 30 June 2023.

9. Yale University

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Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world.

Yale Law School (Yale Law or YLS)  was established in 1824 and has been the top-ranked law school in the United States by U.S. News & World Report every year since the magazine began publishing law school rankings in the 1980s.

Yale Law alumni include many prominent figures in law and politics, including United States presidents, Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton and former U.S. secretary of state and presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton.

10. KU Leuven

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The KU Leuven (or Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium.

It conducts teaching, research, and services in computer science, engineering, natural sciences, theology, humanities, medicine, law, canon law, business, and social sciences.

KU Leuven consistently ranks among the top 100 universities in the world by major ranking tables.

As of 2021, it ranks 42nd in the Times Higher Education rankings, 70th according to QS World University Rankings, and 87th according to the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities.

KU Leuven is the largest university in Belgium and the Low Countries. In 2017–2018, more than 58,000 students were enrolled.

Its primary language of instruction is Dutch, although several programs are taught in English, particularly graduate and postgraduate degrees.