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With a small average class size of just 170, Stanford Law School has been ranked in the top three in the U.S. News & World Report overall rankings of law schools since 1992. Stanford Law School was ranked second in 1999/2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, and 2009 behind Yale Law School and third in 2005, 2006, and 2010 behind Yale and Harvard Law Schools. SLS is considered particularly prestigious in the spaces of Intellectual Property and Constitutional Law, and maintains the nation's first Supreme Court litigation clinic. With Yale, it recently enacted "grade reform," eliminating traditional letter grades for students. Stanford Law graduates include several of the first women to occupy Chief Justice or Associate Justice posts on supreme courts: current Chief Justice of New Zealand Sian Elias, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, and the late Chief Justice of Washington Barbara Durham. Other justices of supreme courts who graduated from Stanford Law include the late Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist, current Montana Supreme Court Justice Brian Morris, retired Chief Justice of California Ronald M. George, retired California Supreme Court Justice Carlos R. Moreno, and the late California Supreme Court Justice Frank K. Richardson. |