<p>which law schools (any from around the world) are internationally respected? as in, an undergraduate list would be something like harvard, stanford, yale, princeton, oxford, cambridge, etc. what would be the law school version of this list?</p>
<p>My impression is that few people outside the US differentiate between the overall reputation of a university and that of its law school.</p>
<p>Asia's a little more focused on the West Coast of the US than on the East Coast, but they've certainly heard of Harvard, Yale, and Columbia. </p>
<p>Size matters here; reputations of large schools travel more easily. Flagship state schools have often garnered more publicity overseas than some of the smaller, elite private institutions.</p>
<p>Prominent local alumni make a difference. People in Taiwan knew that President Lee Teng-hui had a Ph.D. from Cornell, and people in Israel knew that Prime Minister Barak had gone to Stanford.</p>
<p>Princeton Law School is very famous.</p>
<p>Few outside the US are aware that Princeton has no law school.</p>
<p>For that matter, there aren't that many lawyers outside the US.</p>
<p>this is why Princeton Law is famous, heck even the OC mentioned it</p>
<p>He mentioned Princeton on his "undergrad list".</p>
<p>Haha, I saw that on the OC last week. The law professor stopped teaching at Berkeley to go to Princeton for a while. ha.</p>
<p>I hear that Harvard is #1 in Asia.</p>
<p>what about non-US law schools? any of them carry a good or decent intl reputation?</p>
<p>Of course. But if you want your expertise to be in US law, go to law school in the US.</p>
<p>What about international law?</p>
<p>International contracts generally have a "choice of laws" provision in them; working in that area still requires you to be firmly grounded in the study of law in a particular country.</p>
<p>Most treaties are actually agreements between sovreign nations to conform their laws to a set of standards set forth in the treaty. Enforcing a treaty still generally requires you to to be grounded in the legal system of a particular country.</p>
<p>If you want that country to be the US, study law in the US. If you want it to Japan, study law in Japan.</p>