University of Edinburgh vs American Universities?

GTech offers very little in the humanities and social sciences but yes, Edinburgh for English is probably comparable to UCLA/UMich/Toronto/McGill in prestige. Also note that law schools wouldn’t go off of USNews rankings for prestige. Cornell, Emory, UCBerkeley, Georgetown, NYU, UMich, Toronto, McGill would all be seen as about the same and what you do would matter far more than which of these schools you went to.

In any case, prestige really isn’t what you should be looking at when the grading and teaching style will make a far greater difference for your law school chances. The way they mark and determine marks is quite different in the UK vs. the US.

Are you comfortable with your marks for your uni career coming down to almost entirely a few big (essay) tests at the end of each year?

BTW, do UK law firms recruit English students? Not just law students?