Joining Harvard among top law schools in the US are Yale University (ranked 4 th in the world for law), New York University (5 th), Stanford University (6 th), the University of Chicago (9 th) and University of California, Berkeley (10 th).op law schools in Europe. Outside of the UK, the largest numbers of leading law schools in Europe are claimed by Germany, which has 11 universities featured in this year’s law ranking, and the Netherlands, with 9 universities featured. Like Canada, both have three entries within the global top 50.