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Last Updated: November 2025

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 52 128 11,360 52,311 19,554
2 Harvard University 46 114 10,441 47,517 18,637
3 New York University 36 82 6,209 27,254 13,049
4 University of Virginia 40 70 7,577 18,038 13,221
5 University of Chicago 35 62 6,367 14,567 11,865
6 Georgetown University 34 70 5,796 17,712 11,305
7 Columbia University School of Law 39 65 5,468 15,130 7,878
8 Stanford University 34 63 4,543 16,296 7,418
9 University of California, Los Angeles 32 61 4,521 13,949 7,707
10 University of California, Berkeley 29 64 3,454 17,312 7,805
11 Northwestern University 29 59 3,403 12,401 6,886
12 University of Michigan 28 41 4,006 7,798 6,242
13 George Washington University 26 57 2,621 10,987 5,595
14 University of Texas at Austin 23 47 2,459 10,574 5,470
15 University of Pennsylvania 24 49 2,862 7,636 6,174
16 Duke University 27 41 2,816 7,067 6,108
17 Vanderbilt University 22 46 2,118 7,401 3,957
18 Rutgers University 19 41 1,700 6,703 3,995
19 University of Florida 19 33 1,835 4,886 3,899
20 Cornell University 20 37 1,603 5,868 3,939
21 University of San Diego 17 46 1,502 6,434 2,838
22 Fordham University 15 33 1,613 4,648 3,805
23 University of California, Davis 22 35 1,750 3,906 3,445
24 Boston University 19 26 1,694 2,889 4,630
25 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 19 35 1,481 4,622 3,169
26 University of Minnesota 20 32 1,396 3,259 4,257
27 Emory University 17 35 1,159 4,507 3,904
28 Florida State University 18 27 1,454 2,599 4,152
29 William & Mary Law School 19 31 1,448 3,232 3,525
30 University of Notre Dame 18 33 1,370 3,593 3,195
31 Washington University 19 27 1,283 2,723 3,853
32 Ohio State University 16 35 1,073 4,374 2,179
33 Brigham Young University 19 28 1,469 2,209 2,227
34 George Mason University 13 31 907 3,781 2,432
35 University of Maryland 14 31 944 3,411 2,177
36 Texas A&M University 17 22 1,065 1,734 2,627
37 University of Colorado Boulder 15 27 833 3,047 2,057
38 University of Wisconsin-Madison 15 21 869 1,800 2,586
39 Indiana University Bloomington 14 28 716 3,079 2,004
40 Pepperdine University 13 29 740 2,692 1,733
41 Yeshiva University 14 25 822 2,093 1,752
42 Southern Methodist University 15 20 843 1,212 2,441
43 University of California, San Francisco 14 20 808 1,584 2,056
44 University of Georgia 14 26 728 2,381 1,659
45 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 12 25 626 2,189 2,129
46 Temple University 14 25 722 2,025 1,650
47 Brooklyn Law School 15 23 763 1,942 1,509
48 University of St. Thomas 12 28 534 2,952 1,653
49 American University 13 25 659 1,749 2,176
50 Pennsylvania State University 12 21 660 1,623 2,170
51 Seattle University 9 26 439 3,433 1,450
52 University of Denver 13 22 704 1,709 1,574
53 University of Arizona 14 24 658 1,805 1,616
54 University of California, Irvine 15 18 727 1,138 1,815
55 University of Pittsburgh 11 29 547 2,441 1,265
56 University of Houston 9 28 406 2,863 1,496
57 University of Richmond 14 23 645 1,747 1,319
58 Boston College 12 26 561 1,830 1,611
59 University of Utah 13 21 625 1,372 1,727
60 University of Iowa 12 22 510 1,508 1,914
61 University of South Carolina 13 18 649 887 1,811
62 Arizona State University 12 22 471 1,742 1,602
63 Loyola Marymount University 12 18 559 1,314 1,445
64 Lewis & Clark Law School 12 21 571 1,391 1,300
65 Wayne State University 9 25 310 2,846 1,106
66 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 11 21 430 1,750 1,531
67 University of Miami 12 22 370 2,337 1,172
68 University of Baltimore 11 17 496 1,131 1,629
69 Catholic University of America 12 19 612 998 1,113
70 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 10 21 452 1,645 1,163
71 Northeastern University 10 17 414 1,183 1,683
72 University of Alabama 11 23 475 1,579 939
73 University of Southern California 11 17 494 1,112 1,176
74 University at Buffalo 10 19 447 1,460 1,035
75 South Texas College of Law Houston 11 15 467 726 1,574
76 Georgia State University 11 15 451 906 1,321
77 University of Cincinnati 10 24 371 1,751 844
78 Indiana University Indianapolis 9 19 440 1,090 1,132
79 Santa Clara University 9 24 332 1,798 959
80 New York Law School 10 20 315 1,521 1,206
81 Hofstra University 10 22 400 1,467 796
82 Seton Hall University 10 21 395 1,384 899
83 Michigan State University 9 16 370 1,021 1,195
84 Loyola University Chicago 11 16 379 989 1,149
85 Samford University 7 22 298 1,612 805
86 University of Oklahoma 11 14 422 902 878
87 Albany Law School 9 18 298 1,066 1,228
88 University of Washington 10 15 375 676 1,202
89 Case Western Reserve University 9 21 316 1,322 792
90 University of Connecticut 12 14 427 559 980
91 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 8 22 296 1,370 821
92 Tulane University 9 21 285 1,265 971
93 Willamette University College of Law 11 18 408 896 690
94 University of Kansas 9 21 323 1,209 740
95 Chapman University 9 20 315 961 983
96 Syracuse University 9 12 269 592 1,514
97 Florida International University 8 16 287 1,024 915
98 Wake Forest University 8 20 256 1,430 655
99 University of Kentucky 9 18 380 752 692
100 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 10 15 341 787 820