Top Constitutional Law Schools

Yale University

• Yale is one of the most recognized schools in the country with a long list of famous graduates. The constitutional law program is taught by prominent scholars who just happen to be on the faculty. Constitutional law is required of all law students and class sizes are kept small -- around 15 students and one faculty member. Course topics include judicial roles in interpretation, American legal history and civil liberties and national security in a post-9/11 America.

  Yale University

  Yale Law School

  P.O. Box 208215

  New Haven, CT 06520-8215

  203-432-4995

Harvard University

• Harvard Law School offers more courses than any of the other top constitutional Law schools, more than 400 different courses, seminars and reading events, all designed to advance a student's knowledge and love of law. Plus, many of these course have fewer than 25 students, creating an intimate and ideal learning experience. Individual courses explore the different parts of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution, and the separation of powers coupled with federalism and the 14th Amendment. (See Reference 2)

  J.D. Admissions Office

  Harvard Law School

  1563 Massachusetts Avenue

  Cambridge, MA 02138

  617-495-3179

University of Chicago

• The University of Chicago Law School gives students the opportunity to study in a residential setting in the middle of one America's most vibrant cities. The law school was founded in 1902, when the university was only 10 years old. The school and the law program here have played a pivotal role in nearly all law education innovations in the past 100 years. Courses include topics such as election law, constitutional decision making and a history of American law.

  The University of Chicago Law School

  1111 East 60th Street

  Chicago, Illinois 60637

  773-702-9494

University of Texas, Austin

• According to the school Web site, the American Bar Association say the University of Texas, Austin Law School educates more women each year in law than any other university. First-year students are taught exclusively by full-time faculty and receive four hours of constitutional law classes per week, in addition to other classes. The school proudly features the Center for Women in Law, an educational institution devoted to helping woman succeed in the law world.

  Admissions Office

  The University of Texas School of Law

  727 E. Dean Keeton Street

  Austin, TX 78705-3224

  512-232-1200