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Last Updated: May 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 49 131 10,475 55,490 17,743
2 Harvard University 47 117 10,228 50,410 17,572
3 New York University 37 83 5,895 28,433 11,911
4 University of Virginia 40 73 7,173 20,126 12,058
5 University of Chicago 34 67 5,978 15,656 10,734
6 Georgetown University 33 67 5,317 16,962 9,874
7 Columbia University School of Law 38 68 5,058 15,846 6,957
8 Stanford University 34 65 4,419 17,241 6,851
9 University of California, Los Angeles 32 63 4,236 14,940 7,060
10 University of California, Berkeley 27 64 3,076 17,527 6,812
11 Northwestern University 27 59 3,270 13,554 5,971
12 University of Michigan 28 43 3,937 8,302 5,522
13 George Washington University 25 61 2,803 12,155 6,370
14 University of Texas at Austin 25 48 2,683 11,074 5,113
15 University of Pennsylvania 24 50 2,830 8,191 5,591
16 Duke University 27 41 2,554 7,071 5,237
17 Vanderbilt University 21 47 2,092 8,112 3,845
18 Rutgers University 18 43 1,616 7,443 3,523
19 University of Florida 19 36 1,732 5,245 3,425
20 Cornell University 18 38 1,508 6,173 3,632
21 Fordham University 16 35 1,509 5,205 3,436
22 University of San Diego 17 47 1,388 6,656 2,747
23 Boston University 19 28 1,595 3,111 4,101
24 University of California, Davis 22 35 1,591 4,192 2,972
25 University of Minnesota 19 33 1,349 3,494 3,978
26 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 16 35 1,291 4,813 2,685
27 University of Notre Dame 16 35 1,316 3,782 3,055
28 Washington University 20 27 1,300 2,893 3,553
29 Florida State University 16 23 1,242 2,358 3,683
30 Emory University 14 33 944 4,150 3,445
31 William & Mary Law School 17 32 1,192 3,322 2,911
32 George Mason University 13 36 915 4,825 2,440
33 Ohio State University 15 35 974 4,531 1,992
34 Texas A&M University 17 23 1,069 1,899 2,475
35 University of Maryland 13 32 864 3,550 2,007
36 University of Colorado Boulder 15 28 796 3,187 1,637
37 University of Wisconsin-Madison 15 22 861 1,914 2,404
38 Brooklyn Law School 17 24 912 2,300 1,643
39 Indiana University Bloomington 13 28 632 3,141 1,786
40 Brigham Young University Law School 14 29 826 2,350 1,464
41 Pepperdine University 14 30 693 2,826 1,632
42 University of California, San Francisco 14 21 801 1,747 2,006
43 Yeshiva University 13 27 752 2,253 1,720
44 University of Georgia 13 27 677 2,528 1,810
45 Southern Methodist University 15 21 761 1,341 2,024
46 University of St. Thomas 12 28 531 3,030 1,613
47 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 10 26 549 2,267 1,858
48 Pennsylvania State University 11 23 589 1,722 1,905
49 Seattle University 8 26 403 3,511 1,242
50 Temple University 12 25 615 2,081 1,423
51 University of California, Irvine 14 19 691 1,249 1,731
52 University of Arizona 14 25 574 1,893 1,622
53 University of Denver 12 22 613 1,845 1,377
54 University of Utah 13 23 597 1,470 1,757
55 University of Iowa 12 22 507 1,604 1,913
56 University of Pittsburgh 10 29 486 2,520 1,168
57 University of Houston 9 28 380 2,913 1,325
58 Boston College 13 22 564 1,536 1,479
59 University of Richmond 13 24 583 1,829 1,095
60 Lewis & Clark Law School 11 22 527 1,514 1,235
61 Catholic University of America 12 19 628 1,038 1,154
62 University of Baltimore 9 18 469 1,240 1,676
63 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 10 21 429 1,822 1,233
64 University of Miami 10 23 325 2,513 1,103
65 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 10 22 427 1,851 1,116
66 Arizona State University 11 24 383 1,814 1,221
67 University of South Carolina 11 17 504 824 1,437
68 Wayne State University 7 25 257 2,811 872
69 Loyola Marymount University 10 19 458 1,368 1,143
70 University of Southern California 12 17 469 1,187 1,088
71 University of Alabama 10 23 413 1,631 901
72 University at Buffalo 10 19 409 1,534 947
73 South Texas College of Law Houston 12 17 487 817 1,190
74 Northeastern University 9 18 366 1,188 1,304
75 Georgia State University 11 16 428 980 1,170
76 American University 9 22 291 1,495 1,362
77 Indiana University Indianapolis 9 19 415 1,117 1,043
78 Wake Forest University 8 28 322 1,905 776
79 New York Law School 9 20 301 1,573 1,106
80 Seton Hall University 10 21 371 1,452 848
81 University of Cincinnati 9 24 324 1,821 742
82 Santa Clara University 9 25 306 1,854 765
83 Hofstra University 8 24 341 1,581 769
84 Loyola University Chicago 10 16 375 1,028 1,088
85 Michigan State University 9 17 357 1,118 1,004
86 University of Washington 7 15 362 732 1,285
87 University of Oklahoma 10 15 413 962 812
88 Tulane University 9 21 286 1,384 911
89 University of Kansas 10 23 318 1,347 762
90 Samford University 7 23 284 1,651 627
91 University of Connecticut 12 14 392 647 865
92 Washington and Lee University 9 15 341 775 994
93 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 9 22 283 1,413 592
94 Albany Law School 8 19 276 1,117 889
95 Syracuse University 9 12 254 641 1,407
96 Chapman University 9 21 289 1,037 844
97 Willamette University College of Law 11 19 348 948 543
98 Case Western Reserve University 8 21 270 1,318 606
99 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 9 17 308 884 755
100 Florida International University 8 17 256 1,103 730