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Last Updated: May 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Harvard University 41 72 4,564 16,915 5,098
2 Columbia University School of Law 30 47 2,832 8,633 3,561
3 University of Michigan 30 31 3,324 3,053 3,058
4 New York University 26 43 2,168 6,987 4,116
5 Yale University 25 44 2,058 8,117 3,014
6 Vanderbilt University 22 44 1,823 6,395 2,694
7 Georgetown University 20 38 1,621 5,153 2,596
8 University of Virginia 19 31 1,503 4,133 2,646
9 University of Texas at Austin 21 31 1,579 4,029 1,808
10 George Washington University 18 33 1,315 4,564 2,498
11 University of California, Berkeley 19 31 1,259 3,387 2,589
12 University of Pennsylvania 20 29 1,292 3,319 2,194
13 University of Chicago 19 29 1,209 3,393 1,802
14 Stanford University 16 24 1,184 2,070 1,976
15 University of Minnesota 17 24 1,107 2,285 1,512
16 Northwestern University 13 29 766 3,485 1,775
17 University of California, Los Angeles 15 26 828 2,603 1,672
18 University of Florida 14 25 772 2,313 1,240
19 Duke University 18 30 703 2,553 1,246
20 Washington University 14 22 754 1,865 1,113
21 Boston University 14 15 845 962 1,252
22 University of Colorado Boulder 11 18 525 1,572 2,261
23 Texas A&M University 15 14 691 631 1,647
24 Ohio State University 14 18 718 1,004 925
25 Fordham University 11 16 600 951 850
26 Florida State University 11 20 332 1,916 624
27 Wake Forest University 9 23 316 1,721 515
28 University of California, San Francisco 11 16 361 1,011 861
29 Cornell University 12 13 412 797 733
30 Emory University 8 12 307 640 1,127
31 Yeshiva University 11 14 340 732 770
32 University of Kansas 10 15 284 916 834
33 William & Mary Law School 10 17 310 1,099 523
34 University of Notre Dame 11 9 403 250 552
35 Indiana University Bloomington 8 22 207 1,387 493
36 Rutgers University 10 15 281 658 657
37 Boston College 12 8 312 412 554
38 University of Wisconsin-Madison 9 14 272 762 440
39 Temple University 8 12 282 772 352
40 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 7 20 151 1,197 451
41 George Mason University 7 12 212 798 474
42 Northeastern University 6 6 147 905 694
43 American University 8 14 173 687 671
44 Lewis & Clark Law School 6 18 155 988 472
45 Michigan State University 7 12 255 463 342
46 Pepperdine University 8 9 224 455 407
47 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 8 12 232 405 409
48 Arizona State University 6 14 191 622 403
49 University of Baltimore 7 13 162 423 701
50 University of Utah 7 14 203 497 401
51 University of Washington 6 9 198 308 409
52 University of California, Davis 7 15 158 485 428
53 University of California, Irvine 6 6 162 344 469
54 University of Houston 6 11 147 371 441
55 Pennsylvania State University 6 11 182 278 345
56 University of Iowa 6 9 132 403 367
57 University of Maryland 6 13 113 562 310
58 Syracuse University 6 9 89 339 596
59 University of Alabama 7 8 118 393 399
60 Seattle University 4 5 96 654 269
61 University of Arizona 7 8 107 376 417
62 Catholic University of America 8 5 173 78 326
63 University of Southern California 6 6 107 257 473
64 University of San Diego 7 11 137 456 111
65 Loyola Marymount University 7 12 118 427 202
66 Texas Tech University 6 11 113 396 253
67 University of Cincinnati 7 11 105 477 211
68 Brooklyn Law School 5 10 124 324 233
69 University at Buffalo 6 8 106 514 153
70 University of Pittsburgh 6 11 113 443 161
71 University of Richmond 6 9 125 190 283
72 Villanova University 5 8 91 246 395
73 Wayne State University 5 11 101 407 186
74 University of Connecticut 5 4 105 36 486
75 Indiana University Indianapolis 4 12 66 423 327
76 Southern Methodist University 6 7 92 199 341
77 Washburn University 6 8 113 214 203
78 Case Western Reserve University 5 10 88 310 227
79 Brigham Young University Law School 5 6 111 177 229
80 Loyola University Chicago 5 6 88 167 329
81 University of Kentucky 4 12 73 478 104
82 University of Miami 4 11 52 518 152
83 Widener University Commonwealth Law School 7 8 101 223 162
84 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 6 5 91 240 180
85 University of Georgia 5 8 85 291 139
86 Georgia State University 5 8 73 126 312
87 Mercer University 5 10 52 319 138
88 Tulane University 5 9 63 220 171
89 University of Louisville 4 14 45 433 52
90 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 5 6 82 141 128
91 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 5 7 87 122 114
92 Suffolk University 4 7 58 249 144
93 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 4 7 79 180 92
94 University of San Francisco 4 6 73 125 165
95 Chapman University 3 5 45 248 191
96 University of South Carolina 6 5 79 76 158
97 Stetson University 4 7 53 218 155
98 Hofstra University 4 9 48 320 52
99 Seton Hall University 4 5 56 144 164
100 Pace University 5 5 53 102 183