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Last Updated: March 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 47 129 9,999 55,031 18,499
2 Harvard University 44 117 9,515 50,655 17,915
3 University of Virginia 39 73 7,008 20,257 12,681
4 New York University 35 83 5,462 28,250 12,217
5 Georgetown University 33 72 5,320 18,484 10,768
6 University of Chicago 33 67 5,708 15,630 11,068
7 Columbia University School of Law 38 68 4,877 15,860 7,282
8 Stanford University 32 64 4,053 16,938 7,106
9 University of California, Los Angeles 31 63 4,084 14,952 7,334
10 University of California, Berkeley 26 64 2,978 17,515 7,228
11 Northwestern University 27 59 3,133 13,577 6,302
12 University of Michigan 28 42 3,748 8,114 5,786
13 George Washington University 25 61 2,704 12,142 6,578
14 University of Texas at Austin 24 48 2,571 11,040 5,424
15 University of Pennsylvania 23 50 2,704 8,197 5,766
16 Duke University 25 42 2,477 7,580 5,723
17 Vanderbilt University 21 47 2,015 8,062 4,109
18 Rutgers University 18 42 1,539 7,048 3,748
19 University of Florida 18 36 1,652 5,245 3,634
20 Cornell University 18 38 1,433 6,113 3,703
21 Fordham University 16 35 1,535 5,279 3,780
22 University of San Diego 15 47 1,327 6,657 2,839
23 University of California, Davis 21 35 1,544 4,199 3,221
24 Boston University 18 28 1,519 3,111 4,297
25 University of Minnesota 19 33 1,286 3,479 4,131
26 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 15 35 1,267 4,818 2,659
27 Emory University 15 36 1,034 4,683 3,786
28 Florida State University 16 28 1,276 2,893 3,962
29 University of Notre Dame 16 35 1,234 3,777 3,145
30 Washington University 19 27 1,221 2,889 3,734
31 William & Mary Law School 16 32 1,143 3,335 3,026
32 George Mason University 13 36 883 4,822 2,558
33 Ohio State University 14 35 902 4,381 2,053
34 Texas A&M University 16 23 1,008 1,897 2,566
35 University of Maryland 13 32 831 3,555 1,932
36 University of Wisconsin-Madison 15 22 843 1,969 2,593
37 University of Colorado Boulder 14 28 761 3,187 1,782
38 Indiana University Bloomington 13 28 608 3,136 1,871
39 Brigham Young University Law School 14 29 801 2,349 1,558
40 Pepperdine University 13 30 659 2,824 1,647
41 University of California, San Francisco 13 20 757 1,718 2,033
42 Yeshiva University 13 27 710 2,253 1,706
43 University of Georgia 12 27 645 2,528 1,786
44 Southern Methodist University 14 21 729 1,340 2,155
45 University of St. Thomas 12 28 496 3,030 1,629
46 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 10 26 533 2,266 2,031
47 Brooklyn Law School 14 23 652 2,003 1,443
48 Pennsylvania State University 11 23 570 1,741 2,035
49 Seattle University 8 26 388 3,500 1,359
50 Temple University 12 25 599 2,090 1,476
51 University of Arizona 14 25 588 1,910 1,687
52 University of California, Irvine 14 19 673 1,248 1,798
53 University of Denver 12 22 581 1,824 1,424
54 University of Utah 13 23 572 1,469 1,776
55 University of Pittsburgh 10 29 477 2,556 1,219
56 University of Houston 9 29 368 2,958 1,412
57 Boston College 12 26 507 1,920 1,484
58 University of Iowa 11 22 474 1,589 1,882
59 University of Richmond 13 24 565 1,829 1,165
60 Lewis & Clark Law School 11 22 517 1,553 1,288
61 University of South Carolina 11 19 531 970 1,629
62 University of Baltimore 9 18 458 1,240 1,679
63 Catholic University of America 12 19 581 1,059 1,140
64 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 10 21 408 1,823 1,321
65 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 10 22 412 1,855 1,151
66 University of Miami 9 23 300 2,494 1,130
67 Arizona State University 11 24 371 1,813 1,346
68 Wayne State University 7 25 247 2,811 929
69 Loyola Marymount University 9 19 446 1,391 1,148
70 South Texas College of Law Houston 11 17 471 823 1,366
71 University of Southern California 11 17 449 1,187 1,113
72 University at Buffalo 10 19 399 1,534 1,020
73 University of Alabama 10 23 400 1,623 920
74 Northeastern University 9 18 360 1,206 1,402
75 Georgia State University 11 16 416 993 1,200
76 Indiana University Indianapolis 9 19 394 1,114 1,131
77 American University 8 22 282 1,466 1,315
78 Seton Hall University 9 22 361 1,477 880
79 University of Cincinnati 9 24 320 1,815 748
80 New York Law School 9 20 280 1,560 1,131
81 Santa Clara University 9 25 295 1,854 780
82 Loyola University Chicago 10 16 359 1,032 1,148
83 Hofstra University 8 24 331 1,564 767
84 Michigan State University 9 17 336 1,103 1,046
85 University of Washington 7 15 346 731 1,284
86 University of Oklahoma 10 15 393 962 813
87 Samford University 7 23 274 1,653 684
88 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 9 22 290 1,493 733
89 Tulane University 9 21 263 1,400 895
90 Case Western Reserve University 8 22 275 1,411 777
91 University of Kansas 10 22 294 1,266 773
92 Syracuse University 9 12 245 641 1,501
93 University of Connecticut 12 14 364 647 855
94 Albany Law School 8 19 270 1,111 932
95 Chapman University 9 21 283 1,035 918
96 Willamette University College of Law 10 19 331 948 608
97 St. John's University 8 16 323 695 769
98 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 9 16 292 858 761
99 Florida International University 8 17 243 1,102 789
100 Wake Forest University 8 20 227 1,367 628