New law schools get no respect. In a market where even graduates of well-established law schools struggle to find jobs, no candidate with half decent credentials would gamble her career on an untested, unranked school.
But University of California at Irvine Law School has defied the odds. It’s gotten attention—and respect. Barely six years old, it went from unranked status to 30th ranked by U.S. News and World Report almost overnight (it received its ranking this spring). As such, it is giving much better known schools a run for the money.
