What are the top five?

Harvard University (377), Harvard Law School (357), University of California-Los Angeles (269), University of California-Berkeley (268) and Yale University (236).

Records & Rankings

Law schools that produced the most judges

Which law school has produced the most judges?

Harvard University has produced more of the judges on record here than any other school: 377.

Schools ranked by the number of judges on JudicialFinder (federal and state) who studied there, undergraduate or law.

#	Name	Judges
1	Harvard University	377
2	Harvard Law School	357
3	University of California-Los Angeles	269
4	University of California-Berkeley	268
5	Yale University	236
6	Stanford University	200
7	Yale Law School	180
8	University of Virginia School of Law	147
9	University of Southern California	132
10	Georgetown University	131
11	Loyola Marymount University	126
12	University of Florida	126
13	University of Michigan Law School	121
14	UC Law San Francisco	117
15	Columbia Law School	114
16	University of Texas School of Law	107
17	Princeton University	105
18	Santa Clara University	102
19	University of the Pacific	96
20	University of California-Davis	91
21	University of San Diego	91
22	Cornell University	89
23	Duke University	85
24	University of Pennsylvania	85
25	University of Notre Dame	84

Questions

Which law school has produced the most judges?: Harvard University has produced more of the judges on record here than any other school: 377.
What are the top five?: Harvard University (377), Harvard Law School (357), University of California-Los Angeles (269), University of California-Berkeley (268) and Yale University (236).
How is this list ranked?: Schools ranked by the number of judges on JudicialFinder (federal and state) who studied there, undergraduate or law.

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