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Last Updated: March 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 18 45 1,696 6,772 5,501
2 New York University 21 34 1,533 5,233 4,940
3 Georgetown University 18 27 1,824 2,890 4,175
4 University of California, Los Angeles 23 27 1,894 2,187 3,810
5 Columbia University School of Law 17 33 961 3,641 4,484
6 University of California, Berkeley 16 25 766 2,833 5,350
7 University of Pennsylvania 14 30 1,031 3,035 3,023
8 George Washington University 17 25 1,028 2,525 3,105
9 University of Virginia 18 26 969 2,224 2,682
10 Harvard University 14 27 767 3,775 2,338
11 University of Chicago 16 24 962 2,530 2,372
12 Stanford University 17 25 821 2,389 2,064
13 University of Minnesota 12 21 701 1,628 2,722
14 Vanderbilt University 14 21 646 1,703 2,675
15 Duke University 17 21 711 1,893 2,019
16 Brooklyn Law School 16 17 981 711 1,545
17 Northwestern University 13 21 582 1,718 2,074
18 University of California, Davis 13 22 530 1,750 2,005
19 University of Michigan 14 16 688 1,413 1,389
20 University of San Francisco 10 22 322 2,063 2,502
21 Washington University 11 14 465 767 2,611
22 Fordham University 12 18 568 1,095 1,577
23 University of Texas at Austin 9 16 734 736 968
24 University of California, Irvine 13 17 504 993 1,778
25 Loyola University Chicago 12 13 492 632 1,894
26 University of Florida 10 19 429 1,420 1,150
27 University of Maryland 11 16 409 955 1,627
28 Boston University 11 10 400 436 1,798
29 Rutgers University 9 18 397 929 1,293
30 Yeshiva University 12 11 476 341 1,317
31 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 11 15 429 850 998
32 Ohio State University 10 13 316 737 1,450
33 University of Pittsburgh 8 18 253 1,456 1,004
34 Cornell University 9 12 331 815 1,166
35 Florida State University 9 15 229 672 1,828
36 University of Miami 6 12 111 366 2,287
37 University of South Carolina 8 9 315 286 1,193
38 Southern Methodist University 9 12 241 363 1,396
39 University of California, San Francisco 12 10 323 410 834
40 University of Washington 7 15 238 674 1,043
41 William & Mary Law School 8 12 241 531 1,122
42 American University 9 14 253 619 903
43 Texas A&M University 10 8 298 327 912
44 University of Denver 9 14 224 549 1,089
45 Loyola Marymount University 10 14 240 506 1,024
46 Emory University 9 13 237 829 624
47 Arizona State University 7 15 188 741 891
48 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 8 12 199 528 951
49 Pennsylvania State University 7 15 232 604 657
50 Drexel University 7 11 194 409 902
51 University of Wisconsin-Madison 7 17 160 818 700
52 Case Western Reserve University 8 13 176 675 744
53 University at Buffalo 8 8 231 164 810
54 Northeastern University 8 11 148 866 508
55 University of Utah 8 12 152 966 352
56 University of Arizona 7 10 225 296 547
57 University of Houston 8 14 162 456 622
58 University of St. Thomas 8 7 199 159 607
59 Indiana University Bloomington 7 9 160 211 731
60 University of Colorado Boulder 6 8 143 346 669
61 University of Oklahoma 6 8 141 245 765
62 City University of New York (CUNY) 7 8 158 157 742
63 Hofstra University 6 11 158 411 498
64 Washington and Lee University 7 5 195 141 522
65 George Mason University 6 10 110 373 718
66 Wayne State University 7 9 128 307 640
67 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 5 6 80 395 770
68 Seattle University 6 11 102 526 507
69 Brigham Young University Law School 6 7 147 227 495
70 Georgia State University 6 9 129 286 526
71 Temple University 7 8 146 233 478
72 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 5 11 88 361 661
73 University of Iowa 5 8 107 346 574
74 University of Baltimore 7 12 100 420 457
75 St. John's University 7 7 115 248 503
76 Catholic University of America 4 10 120 375 346
77 University of Georgia 6 6 103 160 615
78 University of Connecticut 7 6 135 141 451
79 University of Southern California 5 9 105 245 482
80 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 6 9 104 176 536
81 University of Kansas 5 8 82 254 493
82 University of Notre Dame 5 10 78 456 315
83 Seton Hall University 5 9 101 220 406
84 University of Alabama 7 8 119 184 302
85 Pepperdine University 7 10 102 271 285
86 Widener University Commonwealth Law School 5 6 64 99 615
87 Tulane University 6 5 103 146 365
88 Boston College 6 10 114 162 252
89 University of San Diego 5 11 65 393 300
90 DePaul University 5 10 56 329 390
91 University of Mississippi 7 9 101 239 216
92 Howard University 6 8 84 190 333
93 Stetson University 5 7 74 229 332
94 University of Cincinnati 4 9 53 267 396
95 Saint Louis University 6 8 84 184 216
96 Florida International University 5 10 54 256 302
97 California Western School of Law 5 6 74 61 373
98 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 3 6 48 215 370
99 Michigan State University 4 5 56 157 376
100 Chapman University 5 9 50 375 185