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Last Updated: April 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 19 45 1,723 6,770 5,507
2 New York University 22 34 1,664 5,297 4,814
3 University of California, Los Angeles 23 27 1,941 2,508 3,696
4 Georgetown University 18 27 1,802 2,630 4,003
5 Columbia University School of Law 17 33 967 3,639 4,313
6 University of California, Berkeley 16 25 770 2,834 5,139
7 University of Pennsylvania 14 30 1,045 3,003 2,823
8 George Washington University 18 25 1,058 2,522 3,104
9 University of Virginia 18 26 988 2,223 2,579
10 University of Chicago 16 24 984 2,515 2,255
11 Harvard University 14 27 772 3,745 2,175
12 Stanford University 17 25 843 2,386 1,957
13 Vanderbilt University 15 21 665 1,821 2,675
14 University of Minnesota 12 20 719 1,584 2,579
15 Duke University 17 21 726 1,889 1,963
16 Brooklyn Law School 16 17 981 710 1,416
17 Northwestern University 13 21 588 1,718 2,041
18 University of California, Davis 13 22 540 1,756 1,975
19 University of Michigan 14 16 699 1,413 1,332
20 University of San Francisco 10 22 338 2,062 2,438
21 Fordham University 12 18 626 1,157 1,519
22 Washington University 11 14 470 763 2,557
23 University of Texas at Austin 9 16 741 737 926
24 University of California, Irvine 13 17 506 992 1,625
25 Loyola University Chicago 12 13 500 633 1,788
26 University of Maryland 11 16 416 955 1,597
27 University of Florida 9 18 425 1,381 1,034
28 Rutgers University 9 18 405 942 1,257
29 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 11 16 450 895 981
30 Boston University 11 9 396 417 1,650
31 Yeshiva University 12 11 481 341 1,273
32 Ohio State University 10 13 309 739 1,421
33 Cornell University 9 12 337 815 1,190
34 Florida State University 9 15 231 672 1,819
35 University of Pittsburgh 8 18 255 1,456 923
36 University of Miami 7 12 122 371 2,110
37 University of South Carolina 8 9 318 283 1,166
38 Southern Methodist University 9 12 243 364 1,309
39 University of Washington 7 15 241 674 1,036
40 William & Mary Law School 8 12 247 530 1,129
41 University of California, San Francisco 12 10 330 409 810
42 University of Denver 9 15 240 581 1,084
43 American University 9 14 262 613 866
44 Texas A&M University 10 8 310 335 857
45 Loyola Marymount University 10 14 244 506 967
46 Emory University 9 13 242 830 608
47 Arizona State University 7 13 183 701 837
48 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 8 12 200 528 902
49 Pennsylvania State University 7 15 237 603 630
50 Drexel University 7 11 200 409 855
51 University of Wisconsin-Madison 7 17 156 802 703
52 Case Western Reserve University 8 13 178 674 698
53 University at Buffalo 8 8 232 164 720
54 Northeastern University 8 11 149 865 504
55 University of Utah 8 12 156 966 358
56 University of Arizona 7 10 228 296 510
57 University of Houston 8 14 167 456 606
58 University of St. Thomas 8 7 200 159 590
59 Indiana University Bloomington 7 9 166 212 704
60 City University of New York (CUNY) 7 8 170 193 688
61 George Mason University 6 11 121 441 684
62 University of Colorado Boulder 6 8 145 346 640
63 University of Oklahoma 6 8 145 245 703
64 Hofstra University 7 11 157 400 468
65 Washington and Lee University 7 5 197 141 489
66 Wayne State University 7 9 123 307 609
67 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 5 6 80 395 739
68 Brigham Young University Law School 6 7 155 227 494
69 University of Iowa 5 8 110 346 607
70 Temple University 7 9 149 282 453
71 Seattle University 6 11 103 526 445
72 Georgia State University 6 9 130 286 516
73 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 5 11 92 361 617
74 University of Baltimore 7 12 100 420 432
75 St. John's University 7 7 119 248 490
76 University of Georgia 6 6 105 160 628
77 Catholic University of America 4 10 121 375 347
78 University of Connecticut 7 6 139 139 419
79 California Western School of Law 7 7 124 165 453
80 University of Southern California 5 9 103 244 447
81 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 5 8 99 170 515
82 University of Notre Dame 5 11 82 477 319
83 Seton Hall University 6 9 107 220 411
84 University of Kansas 5 8 84 251 491
85 Tulane University 6 6 106 199 382
86 University of Alabama 7 8 122 192 279
87 Pepperdine University 7 10 106 271 269
88 Widener University Commonwealth Law School 5 6 65 99 577
89 Boston College 6 10 116 162 246
90 DePaul University 5 10 60 329 367
91 University of Mississippi 7 9 102 239 213
92 Howard University 6 8 87 190 333
93 Stetson University 5 7 76 229 321
94 University of Cincinnati 4 9 55 267 365
95 University of San Diego 5 10 55 322 285
96 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 5 6 67 168 341
97 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 3 6 48 215 371
98 Saint Louis University 6 8 85 184 204
99 Michigan State University 4 5 58 157 365
100 Florida International University 5 10 55 255 279