Born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Clinton graduated from Wellesley College in 1969, and earned a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1973. After serving as a congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas and married Bill Clinton in 1975.
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 yearâs law ranking, and the Netherlands, with 9 universities featured. Like Canada, both have three entries within the global top 50.
To harness that interest, Stanford is one of a handful of law schools that now offer joint degree programs in science and law. Larry Kramer, dean of law at Stanford, sensed the need for the program after moving to Silicon Valley from New York University a few years ago.