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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That’s why Harvard and Yale are the most prestigious.[/quote]

Then why isn't NYU viewed more favorably compared to MIT, Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth, or John Hopkins where they don't even have a law school.

Heck NYU law school is generally viewed more favorably than the law schools at Cornell, Northwestern, Duke, Penn, or Chicago.[/quote]

Well historically speaking, NYU Law hasn’t really been considered that strong, and considered a step behind what were considered the top law schools in the mid-20th century: Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Michigan, Chicago, and Penn.

It got really lucky in toward the late 20th century, because the founders of Watchell, soon to be the most elite and prestigious firm in New York that basically invented the “poison pill” defense in corporate takeovers, all got their law degrees from NYU, so they ended up donating heavily to the Law School and recruiting heavily from their alma mater. By the end of the 20th century/early 21st century they were seen as a “Top 6” law school according to US News: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Chicago and NYU.

Nowadays, the picture is a bit mixed, with law schools that were seen as lower in the pecking order during the aughts—Penn, Duke, and Virginia—actually outpacing NYU in Big Law placement and clerkship numbers, which is reflected in the more recent U.S. News rankings. The SJW vibe, and overtly progressive politics at NYU Law has also turned off a lot of people in the legal community (for example, just look up what their Student Bar Association President did in response to the Hamas October 7th attack).  [/quote]

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