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Last Updated: February 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 18 45 1,646 6,727 5,184
2 New York University 21 34 1,479 5,238 4,793
3 Georgetown University 17 27 1,783 2,889 4,041
4 University of California, Los Angeles 23 27 1,887 2,189 3,975
5 Columbia University School of Law 17 33 946 3,638 4,327
6 University of California, Berkeley 15 25 754 2,832 5,046
7 University of Pennsylvania 14 30 997 2,976 2,786
8 George Washington University 17 25 1,003 2,532 2,963
9 Harvard University 14 27 748 3,774 2,286
10 University of Virginia 18 26 947 2,229 2,574
11 University of Chicago 15 24 936 2,535 2,322
12 Stanford University 16 25 798 2,388 2,025
13 University of Minnesota 12 21 680 1,624 2,657
14 Vanderbilt University 14 21 635 1,715 2,518
15 Brooklyn Law School 17 17 980 729 1,558
16 Duke University 16 21 700 1,895 1,898
17 Northwestern University 13 21 575 1,728 1,961
18 University of California, Davis 13 22 519 1,750 1,927
19 University of Michigan 14 16 680 1,413 1,309
20 University of San Francisco 10 22 317 2,062 2,386
21 Washington University 11 14 453 765 2,453
22 Fordham University 11 18 548 1,095 1,535
23 University of Texas at Austin 9 16 722 739 937
24 University of California, Irvine 13 17 494 993 1,717
25 Loyola University Chicago 12 13 486 633 1,881
26 University of Florida 10 19 433 1,451 1,147
27 University of Maryland 11 16 396 957 1,588
28 Rutgers University 9 19 391 969 1,251
29 Boston University 10 10 387 436 1,695
30 Yeshiva University 12 11 469 341 1,214
31 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 11 15 417 850 1,014
32 University of Pittsburgh 8 18 251 1,456 987
33 Florida State University 8 15 219 672 1,764
34 Cornell University 9 12 322 815 1,107
35 Ohio State University 10 13 295 678 1,341
36 University of Miami 6 12 117 372 2,142
37 University of South Carolina 8 9 308 286 1,162
38 Southern Methodist University 9 12 236 364 1,339
39 University of California, San Francisco 11 10 310 410 797
40 William & Mary Law School 8 12 235 531 1,067
41 Texas A&M University 10 8 293 328 896
42 American University 9 14 251 620 836
43 University of Washington 7 15 225 551 1,028
44 University of Denver 9 14 220 549 1,033
45 Loyola Marymount University 10 14 230 504 987
46 Emory University 9 13 229 830 624
47 Arizona State University 7 14 184 715 834
48 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 8 12 197 528 927
49 Pennsylvania State University 7 15 228 603 638
50 Drexel University 7 11 193 409 877
51 University of Wisconsin-Madison 7 17 159 816 692
52 Case Western Reserve University 8 13 173 672 726
53 University at Buffalo 8 8 228 164 830
54 Northeastern University 8 11 146 866 487
55 University of Arizona 7 10 224 296 545
56 University of Utah 8 12 149 956 305
57 University of Houston 8 14 160 456 600
58 University of Oklahoma 6 8 139 245 782
59 University of Colorado Boulder 6 9 144 380 627
60 University of St. Thomas 8 7 194 159 556
61 Indiana University Bloomington 7 9 158 211 691
62 City University of New York (CUNY) 6 8 150 157 739
63 Washington and Lee University 7 5 189 141 514
64 Hofstra University 6 10 152 386 471
65 George Mason University 6 10 107 373 645
66 Wayne State University 7 9 122 307 614
67 Seattle University 6 11 100 527 533
68 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 5 6 77 395 759
69 Georgia State University 6 9 126 286 516
70 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 5 11 88 361 638
71 Brigham Young University Law School 6 7 144 227 465
72 University of Iowa 5 8 106 346 535
73 Temple University 7 8 145 233 424
74 Catholic University of America 4 10 120 375 330
75 St. John's University 7 7 111 248 459
76 University of Southern California 5 9 104 245 458
77 University of Connecticut 7 6 130 139 412
78 California Western School of Law 7 7 121 165 435
79 University of Georgia 6 6 101 160 531
80 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 5 9 101 176 514
81 University of Baltimore 7 10 96 306 413
82 University of Kansas 5 8 81 254 463
83 University of Notre Dame 5 10 75 456 299
84 Seton Hall University 5 9 99 220 357
85 University of Alabama 7 8 113 184 287
86 Tulane University 6 6 95 199 366
87 Widener University Commonwealth Law School 5 6 63 99 610
88 Pepperdine University 6 10 99 271 271
89 Boston College 6 10 111 162 259
90 DePaul University 5 10 55 329 386
91 University of Mississippi 7 9 100 239 220
92 Howard University 6 8 83 190 317
93 University of San Diego 5 11 63 393 244
94 University of Cincinnati 4 9 51 267 398
95 Stetson University 5 7 74 229 309
96 Florida International University 4 10 52 256 308
97 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 3 6 45 215 378
98 Michigan State University 4 5 53 157 376
99 Saint Louis University 5 8 76 184 207
100 Pace University 3 10 59 306 171