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Last Updated: May 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 20 59 2,131 13,847 4,074
2 Columbia University School of Law 28 52 2,258 9,519 4,098
3 Harvard University 19 41 1,628 10,193 3,178
4 New York University 19 46 1,477 6,983 3,845
5 University of Chicago 21 42 1,578 7,046 3,222
6 University of California, Berkeley 15 37 925 6,185 3,051
7 Stanford University 17 37 975 5,887 2,290
8 University of California, Los Angeles 15 34 1,118 5,183 2,075
9 University of Virginia 14 31 1,305 3,283 2,681
10 Georgetown University 15 33 1,011 3,726 2,169
11 University of Pennsylvania 17 28 995 2,860 2,181
12 Cornell University 11 29 555 3,017 1,375
13 University of Michigan 15 21 716 1,435 1,529
14 George Washington University 10 26 580 2,012 1,561
15 Rutgers University 11 25 431 1,854 1,395
16 University of California, Davis 14 20 542 921 1,248
17 University of Minnesota 11 23 401 1,527 1,369
18 Boston University 9 23 361 1,664 929
19 University of Florida 11 22 324 1,392 1,347
20 Fordham University 12 15 399 1,069 1,078
21 Duke University 10 21 295 1,760 952
22 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 12 18 428 787 930
23 University of San Diego 10 19 342 1,162 811
24 Northwestern University 10 15 334 1,218 723
25 University of Colorado Boulder 8 13 364 914 678
26 University of Texas at Austin 11 18 323 1,046 510
27 University of Wisconsin-Madison 7 23 192 1,573 533
28 University of Iowa 7 18 149 1,460 780
29 Vanderbilt University 8 16 236 966 690
30 Texas A&M University 8 12 272 484 836
31 University of Kansas 8 18 196 1,221 464
32 Brigham Young University Law School 9 13 244 689 586
33 George Mason University 8 15 172 1,082 589
34 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 7 17 197 1,170 362
35 Washington University 9 14 196 640 791
36 University of California, San Francisco 8 18 205 1,073 343
37 Suffolk University 8 14 229 618 537
38 Florida State University 6 14 190 599 707
39 University of Washington 4 14 202 705 467
40 Yeshiva University 7 15 144 722 702
41 Pepperdine University 7 16 155 817 551
42 William & Mary Law School 8 16 180 687 540
43 Temple University 6 13 171 560 690
44 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 9 15 197 602 474
45 Arizona State University 8 12 158 599 544
46 Indiana University Bloomington 6 12 129 800 408
47 Widener University Delaware Law School 6 14 167 604 365
48 University of Houston 6 15 135 709 424
49 Loyola Marymount University 8 11 167 478 383
50 Ohio State University 8 12 143 526 437
51 Southern Methodist University 7 11 175 348 410
52 South Texas College of Law Houston 5 13 146 543 371
53 University of California, Irvine 8 10 153 403 369
54 American University 5 12 100 379 643
55 University of Southern California 8 7 170 222 418
56 Loyola University Chicago 5 9 174 247 372
57 University of Georgia 8 9 161 402 278
58 University of Notre Dame 6 11 116 498 399
59 Brooklyn Law School 7 10 147 295 358
60 University of Richmond 6 12 134 329 391
61 Emory University 5 13 117 395 393
62 University of Denver 7 12 133 336 350
63 University of St. Thomas 7 9 103 382 439
64 Louisiana State University 6 12 125 347 360
65 Tulane University 4 11 72 437 520
66 Seattle University 5 11 68 410 541
67 Washington and Lee University 7 8 133 213 386
68 Willamette University College of Law 5 14 121 365 283
69 Michigan State University 6 8 116 260 401
70 Case Western Reserve University 5 12 100 493 269
71 University of Connecticut 5 10 101 461 263
72 Wake Forest University 5 12 76 560 296
73 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 7 9 142 157 302
74 Villanova University 5 8 78 449 353
75 St. John's University 5 8 88 302 402
76 Northeastern University 5 10 113 307 248
77 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 5 11 108 363 170
78 University of Alabama 7 5 123 106 320
79 University of Maryland 4 10 87 447 187
80 Drexel University 5 13 65 444 287
81 University of South Carolina 6 8 93 296 263
82 Loyola University New Orleans 5 9 91 193 345
83 University of Pittsburgh 3 14 34 507 314
84 Widener University Commonwealth Law School 5 10 71 364 250
85 University of Oregon 6 8 90 277 224
86 Albany Law School 4 7 86 254 266
87 University of Missouri 5 9 65 420 210
88 Seton Hall University 4 7 76 277 261
89 Pennsylvania State University 6 9 79 315 206
90 Georgia State University 4 9 64 245 343
91 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 5 9 68 234 288
92 University of Cincinnati 4 10 52 432 186
93 Santa Clara University 4 8 53 301 294
94 Boston College 5 9 77 316 141
95 Indiana University Indianapolis 4 8 67 224 268
96 University of Illinois Chicago 4 9 55 255 299
97 University of Baltimore 5 7 69 343 137
98 Southwestern Law School 5 10 67 318 147
99 California Western School of Law 4 7 65 196 266
100 Wayne State University 4 9 53 275 206