Extremely large ranks

Ulmer and others have shown that over function fields there is a sequence of integers $N$ and elliptic curves $E_N$ of conductor $N$ so that the rank of $E_N$ is greater than or equal to

$$c \frac{\log N}{\log \log N}$$

Does the same hold for number fields? Can random matrix theory shed any light on this question?

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