Editing Harvard Law School (section)

=== Rankings ===
HLS was ranked as the fifth best law school in the United States by ''U.S. News & World Report'' in its 2023 rankings.<ref>{{cite web |title=2023 Best Law Schools |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/law-rankings |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320195829/https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/law-rankings |archive-date=March 20, 2017 |website=U.S. News & World Report}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=June 27, 2021 |title=Top (T14) Law Schools in the US (2021-2022) |url=https://magoosh.com/lsat/2019/top-law-schools/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200214025311/https://magoosh.com/lsat/2019/top-law-schools/ |archive-date=February 14, 2020 |access-date=February 14, 2020}}</ref> HLS was ranked first in the world by QS World University Rankings in 2023.<ref name="auto">{{cite web |title=Law |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2019/law-legal-studies |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200120205417/https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2019/law-legal-studies |archive-date=January 20, 2020 |access-date=15 January 2020 |website=QS World University Rankings}}</ref> It is ranked first in the world by the 2019 Academic Ranking of World Universities.<ref name="auto2">{{cite web |title=ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2019 - Law |url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/Shanghairanking-Subject-Rankings/law.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713045723/http://www.shanghairanking.com/Shanghairanking-Subject-Rankings/law.html |archive-date=July 13, 2019 |access-date=15 January 2020 |website=Academic Ranking of World Universities}}</ref>

In November 2022, the law school made a joint decision along with Yale Law School to withdraw from the ''U.S. News & World Report'' Best Law Schools rankings, citing the system's "flawed methodology."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Korn |first=Melissa |date=November 16, 2022 |title=WSJ News Exclusive {{!}} Yale and Harvard Law Schools Abandon U.S. News Rankings |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/yale-law-school-abandons-u-s-news-rankings-citing-flawed-methodology-11668607649 |access-date=2022-11-17 |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |language=en-US}}</ref>