<p>Hi all and thanks for all the great info shared here! Is there a ranking of law schools according to their level of conservatism or liberalism?</p>
<p>This is an interesting concept.</p>
<p>You will often find both conservative and liberal professors at any given law school. You will also find that among your classmates at law school, many hold passionate views one way or the other. Many law schools have both liberal-leaning and conservative-leaning clubs for students to join. </p>
<p>Are you trying to determine if there is a general leaning one way or the other? There is no “ranking” of law schools according to these criteria as far as I am aware.</p>
<p>Go to BYU.</p>
<p>not an exhaustive list, but:</p>
<p>BYU
Pepperdine
Stanford (to a lesser extent)
University of Chicago (fiscally more than socially)
Liberty
Ave Maria</p>
<p>UCLA has Eugene Volokh of Volokh Conspiracy fame. If well-respected law professors (in the conservative/libertarian world anyway) like Volokh can be found at bastions of liberalism like UCLA, then those professors will exist everywhere.</p>
<p>My torts professor at Berkeley went on to be known as “the Father of Intelligent Design Theory”. Another of my professors was appointed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals by Ronald Reagan, after being praised in a column by William F. Buckley. John Yoo is a professor there today. And that’s supposedly one of the “liberal” law schools.</p>
<p>Liberal law professors are still law professors. Don’t expect a profession that requires that everyone take a course in property, and spends much of its time talking about precedent to be wildly radical.</p>
<p>Princeton Review has a top 10 liberal and top 10 conservative law school lists. Why this matters to anyone is another story.</p>
<p>The mark of a good lawyer is being able to take and argue on behalf of positions with which you personally disagree. Having liberal or conservative law professors should not make a difference in your legal education or how well you perform as a lawyer.</p>
<p>true, but making connections with people who have ins with conservative judges and elected officials could be helpful in getting clerkships, jobs with Republican politicians, and positions at conservative think tanks and nonprofits. </p>
<p>the same would be true for Democrats at liberal schools.</p>
<p>Of course, most schools have a pretty wide range of faculty and students.</p>