Top 5 universities for law degrees
1. Duke University
The Duke University School of Law is one of 10 schools at Duke University. It is consistently ranked highly and has a competitive admissions process, accepting only about 20 per cent of applicants a year.
The school publishes eight academic journals or law reviews. Law and Contemporary Problems is the university’s oldest law journal. The Duke Law Journal was the first of the law journals to be edited by students and publishes articles from scholars on topics of general interest about the legal system and the study of law.
The school also offers a number of joint degree programmes with a number of the other schools such as the graduate school, the business school and the medical school. About a quarter of students are enrolled in joint degree courses.
世界法律专业最顶尖的五所大学
第一位、杜克大学
杜克大学有10个学院，。法学院是其中之一。杜克大学法学院一直以来排名都很高，入学竞争也十分激烈。每年，大约只有20%的申请者被录取。
杜克大学法学院有八份(法律)学术期刊。《法律和当代问题》是杜克大学最古老的法律期刊。《杜克法学杂志》是第一份由学生编辑的法律杂志，学者关于法律制度和法学研究的文章也在该杂志上发表。
法学院和其他学院合作，有许许多多的联合学位计划。与研究生院、商学院和医学院均有合作。注册联合学位课程的学生大约占到法学院学生的四分之一。
2. Stanford University
The Stanford Law School is known for having one of the lowest student-to-staff ratios in the country at 7.3:1.
The law courses are varied and diverse, beginning with an overview in the first year covering criminal law, contracts, tort, and legal research and writing. After the first year, students can choose from some 280 different course titles in order to specialise in the area that interests them.
The Robert Crown law library at Stanford holds about 500,000 books.
As well as studying, there are more than 50 student organisations run by Stanford law students including the Stanford law and wine society, Stanford law students against gendered violence, women in politics and the black law students association. There are also 12 legal journals affiliated with the law school.
第二位、斯坦福大学
斯坦福大学法学院的师生比例是美国师生比例最高的学院之一，位1比7.3。
法学院有多门内容不同的课程。第一年主要学习刑法、契约、侵权行为、法律研究和写作。第一年之后，学生可以根据自己的兴趣从280门课程中选择进行学习。
Robert Crown 法学图书馆有大约50万册藏书。
在法学院除了学习，你还可以参加各种学生组织。这里有50多个有法律专业学生运营的学生组织，包括斯坦福法律与葡萄酒社、斯坦福法律专业学生反性别暴力社、女性政治社和法律专业黑人学生学会。此外，法学院也办有12种法律杂志。
3. Yale University
The admissions process to the Yale University School of Law is one of the most selective in the country with less than 10 per cent of applicants accepted each year.
The school hosts a number of clinics that allow students to represent clients in real-world problems. Up to 80 per cent of Yale law students take part in these clinics before they graduate. The clinics cover a wide range of legal areas and new ones are added all the time.
Alumni of the law school include presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and former US presidents Bill Clinton and Gerald Ford.
第三位、耶鲁大学
耶鲁大学法学院是美国入学竞争最激烈的学院之一，每年只有不到10%的申请者被录取。
耶鲁大学法学院设有多个法律诊所，让学生有机会担任诉讼委托人角色，解决现实世界中与法律相关的问题。在法学院，80%的学生在毕业之前会参加法律诊所学习。法律诊所涵盖法律的众多方面，并且随时都在增加新的内容。
法学院著名校友包括被提名为美国总统的希拉里·克林顿、美国前总统比尔·克林顿和杰拉尔德·福特。
4. University of Chicago
The University of Chicago Law School produces six professional journals, three of which are run by students: University of Chicago Law Review, Chicago Journal of International Law and University of Chicago Legal Forum. If students are interested in membership of any of these journals, they have to take part in a writing competition at the end of the first year. A group of students will then be selected based on their grade point average and the quality of their submissions to the writing competition, depending on which journal they have applied for.
There are also about 60 student organisations associated with the law school including the criminal law society, the education and child advocacy society, the law school musical and the Muslim law society.
第四位、芝加哥大学
芝加哥大学法学院办有六种专业杂志，其中三种由学生运营，分别是《 芝加哥大学法律评论》《芝加哥国际法杂志》和《芝加哥大学法律论坛》。要想成为这些杂志的会员，必须在第一年学习结束的时候参加写作竞赛。随后，各杂志根据参赛者的作为质量和平均绩点选出会员。
除了专业杂志，法学院也设有大约60学生组织，包括刑法社、教育与儿童辩护社以及音乐与穆斯林法学社。
5. University of Cambridge
The Squire Law Library at the University of Cambridge is one of the three largest legal collections in the UK with almost 180,000 volumes. The collection is strongest in UK law, but contains collections on legal systems across the world including the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. There are also smaller collections for many other countries.
The Faculty of Law offers six different degrees as well as an MPhil in criminology, an MPhil in criminological research, a diploma in legal studies and the diploma in international law.
第五位、剑桥大学
剑桥大学思夸爱法律图书馆是英国三大法律图书馆之一，有近18万册藏书。该图书馆也是英国法律领域最强有力的图书馆，藏书内容不仅涉及美国、澳大利亚、加拿大和新西兰的法律制度，也涉及其他许多国家的法律制度。
剑桥大学法学院提供六个不同学位。此外，也提供犯罪学硕士和犯罪学研究硕士课程，以及法学研究文凭和国际法文凭。
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