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More 2014 PGR specialty rankings: Philosophy of Law

Again, remember schools are ranked by the rounded mean score, with the median and mode scores appearing in parentheses after the school name.

PHILOSOPHY OF LAW

Group 1 (1) (rounded mean of 4.5)

Oxford University (5, 5)

Group 2 (2-5) (rounded mean of 4.0)

New York University (3.75, 3.5)

University of California, Los Angeles (4, 4)

University of Chicago (4, 3.5)

Yale University (3.5, 3.5)

Group 3 (6-17) (rounded mean of 3.5)

Cambridge University (3.25, 3)

Columbia University (4, 4)

Cornell University (3.5, 3.5)

Georgetown University (3.5, 3.5)

King’s College, London (3.75, 4)

Rutgers University, New Brunswick (3.5, 3)

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (3.5, 3.5)

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (3.5, 3.5)

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul (3, 3)

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (3.75, 4)

University of Pennsylvania (4, 4)

University of Toronto (4, 4)

Group 4 (18-25) (rounded mean of 3.0)

Monash University (2.5, 2.5)

National University of Singapore (3, 3)

Queen’s University, Kingston (3, 3.5)

University of Arizona (3, 2 & 3)

University of California, Berkeley (3, 2.5 & 3.5)

University of Notre Dame (3, 3.5)

University of Sydney (2.75, 3 & 4)

University of Warwick (3, 3 & 3.5) 

Additional programs not evaluated this year but recommended for consideration by the Advisory Board:

McMaster University

York University, Toronto

Evaluators:  Brian Bix, John Deigh, William Edmundson, John Gardner, Michael Giudice, Alvin Goldman, Leslie Green, Matthew Kramer, Brian Leiter, Julia Markovits, Colleen Murphy, Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco, Stefan Sciaraffa, Hanoch Sheinman, John Tasioulas, W.J. Waluchow.

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