This list of Ivy League law schools outlines the five universities of the Ivy League that host a law school. The three Ivy League universities that do not offer law degrees are Brown, Dartmouth and Princeton; they are the smallest universities in the Ivy League by enrollment. All five Ivy League law schools are consistently ranked among the top 14 law schools in the nation or T14. [1]
The Law School at the College of New Jersey formerly existed at Princeton University from 1847 until 1852, officially closing in 1855. [2]
| School name | Host institution | Image | Degree programs offered | Year founded |
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| Columbia Law School | Columbia University |  | LL.M., J.D., S.J.D. | 1858 [3] |
| Cornell Law School | Cornell University |  | LL.M., J.D., M.S.L.S., S.J.D. | 1887 [4] |
| Harvard Law School | Harvard University |  | LL.M., J.D., S.J.D. | 1817 [5] |
| University of Pennsylvania Law School | University of Pennsylvania |  | LL.M., J.D., M.L., LL.C.M., S.J.D. | 1850 [6] |
| Yale Law School | Yale University |  | LL.M., M.S.L., J.D., S.J.D., Ph.D. | 1824 [7] |
The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference of eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States. It participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I, and in football, in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The term Ivy League is used more broadly to refer to the eight schools that belong to the league, which are globally renowned as elite colleges associated with academic excellence, highly selective admissions, and social elitism. The term was used as early as 1933, and it became official in 1954 following the formation of the Ivy League athletic conference. At times, they have also been referred to as the "Ancient Eight".
ECAC Hockey is one of the six conferences that compete in NCAA Division I ice hockey. The conference used to be affiliated with the Eastern College Athletic Conference, a consortium of over 300 colleges in the eastern United States. This relationship ended in 2004; however, the ECAC abbreviation was retained in the name of the hockey conference. ECAC Hockey is the only ice hockey conference with identical memberships in both its women's and men's divisions.
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