When referring to a school, you should make sure that you are using the names that they prefer to be called rather than what you may know them as colloquially. Also make sure that you are using the correct name – some are schools of law, some are law schools, while others are colleges of law. You don’t want to miss such details.
Here is a (likely incomplete) list of how the top 50-ish schools refer to themselves in their marketing materials:
1 - Yale Law School – YLS – Yale
2 - Stanford Law School– SLS – Stanford
3 - Harvard Law School – HLS - Harvard
4 - University of Chicago Law School – UChicago
5 - Columbia Law School – CLS – Columbia
6 - New York University School of Law - NYU
7 - University of Pennsylvania Law School – Penn
8 - University of Virginia School of Law – UVA Law - UVA
9 - University of Michigan Law School – Michigan Law - Michigan
10 - Duke University School of Law – Duke Law - Duke
10 - Northwestern Pritzker School of Law – Northwestern Law - Northwestern
10 - University of California, Berkeley, School of Law - Berkeley Law – (Note use to be Boalt Hall – but tries not to use that any more)
13 - Cornell Law School – Cornell Law - Cornell
14 - Georgetown Law – Georgetown – (Georgetown University Law Center – GULC – not used on website anymore)
15 - University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law – UCLA School of Law - UCLA Law - UCLA
16 - University of Texas at Austin School of Law - Texas Law (they prefer Texas Law over UT)
17 - University of Southern California Gould School of Law - USC Gould
18 - Vanderbilt Law School - Vanderbilt
18 - Washington University School of Law – WashULaw
20 - University of Minnesota Law School - Minnesota Law
21 - Notre Dame Law School – ND Law
22 - The George Washington University Law School – GW Law School – GW Law
23 - Boston University School of Law – BU Law
23 - University of California, Irvine, School of Law – UCI Law
25 - University of Alabama School of Law – Hugh F. Culverhouse School of Law – Culverhouse Law – Alabama Law
26 - Emory University School of Law - Emory Law
27 - Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law - ASU Law
27 - Boston College Law School - BC Law
27 - University of Georgia – UGA Law
27 - University of Iowa College of Law – Iowa Law
31 - University of California, Davis, School of Law – UC Davis School of Law – King Hall - UC Davis Law
31 - University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law – UF Law
31 - Wake Forest University School of Law – Wake Forest Law
34 - Maurer School of Law at Indiana University Bloomington - Maurer School of Law – Indiana Law
34 - Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University – OSU Law – Moritz
34 - University of North Carolina School of Law – UNC Law
34 - University of Wisconsin Law School – UW Law
34 - Washington and Lee University School of Law – W&L Law
39 - Brigham Young University J Reuben Clark Law School – BYU Law
39 - Fordham University School of Law – Fordham Law School – Fordham Law
39 - James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona - University of Arizona Law School – Arizona Law
39 - University of Illinois College of Law – UIllinois Law
39 - The Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary - William & Mary Law School - William & Mary – W&M Law
44 - University of Washington School of Law – UW School of Law – UW Law
45 - Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University – Scalia Law
45 - University of Colorado Law School - Boulder – Colorado Law
47 - S. J Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah – Utah Law
48 - Baylor Law School – Baylor Law
48 - Florida State University College of Law – FSU Law
48 - Temple University Beasley School of Law – Temple Law School – Temple Law
53 - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University – Cardozo Law School – Cardozo Law