After flirting with the top 10 on the U.S. News & World Report’s annual law school rankings for most of the past decade, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law has finally broken through.
Northwestern tied with Duke Law School for the No. 10 spot, one of several notable changes among the top schools on this year’s list, which was released Tuesday. Those changes did not include Yale Law School, which retained its position at No. 1.
Stanford Law School elbowed out Harvard Law School to claim the No. 2 spot—the two schools had tied for second the past four years. Harvard last held the No. 3 spot in 2013.
Duke moved back into the top 10 after falling briefly to No. 11 last year. The gains achieved by Duke…
