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Last Updated: April 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 48 129 10,268 55,029 17,944
2 Harvard University 44 110 9,529 44,392 16,790
3 University of Virginia 40 73 7,165 19,976 12,464
4 New York University 37 83 5,742 28,216 11,996
5 University of Chicago 34 66 5,886 15,516 10,880
6 Georgetown University 33 67 5,203 16,989 9,899
7 Columbia University School of Law 38 68 5,025 15,903 7,168
8 Stanford University 33 64 4,179 17,091 6,795
9 University of California, Los Angeles 31 63 4,158 14,940 7,094
10 University of California, Berkeley 26 64 3,005 17,591 6,890
11 Northwestern University 27 59 3,199 13,592 5,980
12 University of Michigan 28 43 3,878 8,291 5,696
13 George Washington University 25 60 2,736 11,903 6,427
14 University of Texas at Austin 24 48 2,640 11,052 5,224
15 University of Pennsylvania 23 50 2,734 8,169 5,498
16 Duke University 26 42 2,500 7,467 5,600
17 Vanderbilt University 21 47 2,079 8,095 3,951
18 Rutgers University 18 43 1,590 7,441 3,700
19 University of Florida 19 36 1,699 5,262 3,540
20 Fordham University 17 36 1,644 5,336 3,654
21 Cornell University 18 38 1,461 6,132 3,573
22 University of San Diego 15 47 1,357 6,689 2,781
23 Boston University 18 28 1,560 3,092 4,166
24 University of California, Davis 22 35 1,558 4,200 3,068
25 University of Minnesota 19 33 1,301 3,476 3,975
26 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 16 35 1,302 4,813 2,562
27 Emory University 15 36 1,063 4,694 3,609
28 Florida State University 16 28 1,311 2,896 3,825
29 University of Notre Dame 16 35 1,283 3,791 3,107
30 Washington University 19 27 1,255 2,886 3,586
31 William & Mary Law School 17 32 1,192 3,316 3,077
32 George Mason University 13 36 899 4,824 2,459
33 Ohio State University 14 35 928 4,527 2,002
34 University of Maryland 13 32 849 3,556 1,982
35 Texas A&M University 17 23 1,036 1,897 2,489
36 University of Wisconsin-Madison 15 22 834 1,914 2,504
37 University of Colorado Boulder 14 28 752 3,155 1,656
38 Indiana University Bloomington 13 29 631 3,194 1,852
39 Brigham Young University Law School 14 29 809 2,193 1,505
40 Pepperdine University 13 30 670 2,824 1,630
41 University of Georgia 13 26 682 2,493 1,760
42 Yeshiva University 13 27 723 2,244 1,722
43 University of California, San Francisco 13 20 771 1,711 1,898
44 Southern Methodist University 15 21 751 1,340 2,086
45 University of St. Thomas 12 28 503 3,029 1,616
46 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 10 26 537 2,267 1,898
47 Seattle University 8 26 398 3,509 1,277
48 Brooklyn Law School 14 23 645 1,987 1,364
49 Pennsylvania State University 11 23 576 1,736 1,938
50 Temple University 12 25 605 2,076 1,428
51 University of California, Irvine 14 19 680 1,246 1,723
52 University of Arizona 13 25 567 1,891 1,629
53 University of Utah 12 23 585 1,467 1,774
54 University of Denver 12 22 592 1,822 1,383
55 University of Pittsburgh 10 29 482 2,553 1,186
56 University of Houston 9 28 375 2,925 1,350
57 University of Iowa 11 22 493 1,603 1,859
58 Boston College 13 26 515 1,918 1,363
59 University of Richmond 13 24 575 1,829 1,134
60 University of South Carolina 11 19 541 970 1,641
61 Lewis & Clark Law School 11 21 515 1,467 1,267
62 Catholic University of America 12 19 606 1,059 1,165
63 University of Baltimore 9 18 465 1,232 1,638
64 Loyola Marymount University 10 19 501 1,388 1,254
65 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 10 21 423 1,818 1,252
66 Arizona State University 11 24 407 1,835 1,293
67 University of Miami 10 23 314 2,501 1,085
68 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 10 22 420 1,850 1,124
69 Wayne State University 7 25 251 2,811 881
70 University of Southern California 11 17 449 1,189 1,078
71 University at Buffalo 10 19 404 1,534 996
72 University of Alabama 10 23 405 1,631 877
73 Northeastern University 9 18 364 1,226 1,330
74 South Texas College of Law Houston 11 16 457 796 1,221
75 Georgia State University 11 16 412 986 1,182
76 Indiana University Indianapolis 9 19 403 1,138 1,069
77 University of Cincinnati 9 24 324 1,814 771
78 Seton Hall University 10 21 364 1,452 846
79 Santa Clara University 9 25 299 1,854 767
80 New York Law School 9 20 290 1,572 1,053
81 Loyola University Chicago 10 16 365 1,032 1,138
82 American University 8 22 274 1,464 1,193
83 Hofstra University 8 24 332 1,558 756
84 Michigan State University 9 17 350 1,117 1,024
85 University of Oklahoma 10 15 400 962 806
86 University of Washington 7 15 350 737 1,249
87 Samford University 7 23 278 1,652 647
88 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 9 22 296 1,490 677
89 University of Connecticut 12 14 385 647 884
90 Case Western Reserve University 8 22 279 1,406 744
91 University of Kansas 10 22 300 1,260 763
92 Tulane University 9 21 260 1,379 842
93 Albany Law School 8 19 275 1,111 904
94 Willamette University College of Law 11 19 361 948 573
95 Syracuse University 9 12 247 641 1,426
96 Chapman University 9 21 284 1,010 853
97 Washington and Lee University 8 15 289 778 975
98 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 9 16 301 859 730
99 St. John's University 8 16 328 695 732
100 Capital University 5 20 148 1,639 784