{"id":148263,"date":"2026-04-08T14:50:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/08\/former-t14-law-schools-rankings-tumble-gets-the-classic-spin-treatment\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:50:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:50:58","slug":"former-t14-law-schools-rankings-tumble-gets-the-classic-spin-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/08\/former-t14-law-schools-rankings-tumble-gets-the-classic-spin-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Former T14 Law School\u2019s Rankings Tumble Gets The Classic Spin Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The change in our ranking is a result of shifts in the U.S. News formula, \u200cnot any \u2060meaningful change in Berkeley Law<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, in comments given to Reuters<\/a>, concerning UC Berkeley School of Law\u2019s tumble in the latest edition of the U.S. News law school rankings. Berkeley has been a mainstay in the T14 since the 90s, but the school landed at No. 16<\/a> in this year\u2019s version of the rankings. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Former T14 Law School\u2019s Rankings Tumble Gets The Classic Spin Treatment<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The change in our ranking is a result of shifts in the U.S. News formula, \u200cnot any \u2060meaningful change in Berkeley Law<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, in comments given to Reuters<\/a>, concerning UC Berkeley School of Law\u2019s tumble in the latest edition of the U.S. News law school rankings. Berkeley has been a mainstay in the T14 since the 90s, but the school landed at No. 16<\/a> in this year\u2019s version of the rankings. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Former T14 Law School\u2019s Rankings Tumble Gets The Classic Spin Treatment<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. The change in our ranking is a result of shifts in the U.S. News formula, \u200cnot any \u2060meaningful change in Berkeley Law. \u2014\u00a0 Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, in comments given to Reuters, concerning UC Berkeley School of Law\u2019s tumble in the latest edition of the U.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Staci-Zaretsky-Hn7l2t.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}