Hot or Not 2008

Law schools that moved up or down at least five spots in the US News overall rankings from 2007 to 2008. Negative numbers (a drop in overall rank) appear in parentheses. Movements between unscored tiers and into or out of the Top 100 get a value of 99 or (99) depending on direction.

2007 US News Overall Rank ("2008" Edition, Released March 2007)
2008 US News Overall Rank ("2009" Edition, Released March 2008)
MOVE Change in Overall Rank (2008 - 2007)


HOT

2007 / 2008 / MOVE
T4 T3 99 Chapman University (CA)
T4 T3 99 Hamline University (MN)
T3 99 99 Hofstra University (NY)
T4 T3 99 Ohio Northern University (Pettit)
T3 100 99 Syracuse University (NY)
T4 T3 99 University of Baltimore
T4 T3 99 University of South Dakota
T4 T3 99 Wayne State University (MI)
T4 T3 99 Willamette University (Collins) (OR)
85 68 17 Indiana University-Indianapolis
91 77 14 Pennsylvania State University (Dickinson)
91 77 14 Santa Clara University (CA)
100 88 12 University of Nevada-Las Vegas (Boyd)
97 88 9 Catholic University of America (Columbus) (DC)
82 73 9 Lewis and Clark College (Northwestern) (OR)
91 82 9 University of Hawaii (Richardson)
77 68 9 University of Richmond (Williams) (VA)
66 59 7 Pepperdine University (CA)
66 59 7 University of Missouri-Columbia
44 38 6 University of Arizona (Rogers)
28 22 6 University of Notre Dame (IN)
57 51 6 University of Utah (Quinney)
82 77 5 Georgia State University
57 52 5 University of Cincinnati
60 55 5 University of Houston
100 95 5 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) (CA)


NOT

2007 / 2008 / MOVE
T3 T4 (99) Florida International University
T3 T4 (99) Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
T3 T4 (99) Southwestern Law School (CA)
T3 T4 (99) University of Memphis (Humphreys)
100 T3 (99) University of San Francisco
85 T3 (99) University of Toledo (OH)
T3 T4 (99) William Mitchell College of Law (MN)
77 100 (23) University at Buffalo-SUNY
70 88 (18) St. John’s University (NY)
57 73 (16) University of Pittsburgh
70 82 (12) Loyola University Chicago
70 82 (12) University of Miami (FL)
77 88 (11) University of Denver (Sturm)
53 63 (10) Case Western Reserve University (OH)
85 95 (10) St. Louis University
34 44 (10) University of California-Davis
60 68 (8) Villanova University (PA)
70 77 (7) Rutgers, the State Univ. of New Jersey-Camden
66 73 (7) University of Kansas
60 66 (6) Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent)
36 42 (6) University of Maryland
36 42 (6) Wake Forest University (NC)
31 36 (5) University of Wisconsin-Madison