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Last Updated: April 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 36 108 6,743 46,390 20,425
2 Harvard University 36 95 6,760 35,210 16,522
3 New York University 32 87 6,131 30,286 19,073
4 Columbia University School of Law 34 75 5,165 23,996 23,266
5 Georgetown University 31 73 5,732 19,634 15,141
6 University of Virginia 36 60 5,737 14,715 14,818
7 University of Pennsylvania 32 69 5,398 17,541 13,656
8 University of Chicago 30 72 4,476 20,060 10,079
9 University of California, Los Angeles 33 59 4,607 12,016 11,054
10 University of California, Berkeley 26 56 3,056 13,291 13,236
11 Duke University 26 55 3,531 11,156 11,642
12 Stanford University 28 62 3,358 13,511 7,796
13 University of Michigan 27 52 3,138 11,049 10,520
14 George Washington University 25 53 3,144 10,657 10,045
15 Northwestern University 22 57 2,490 12,071 9,675
16 University of Minnesota 18 49 2,638 9,380 10,877
17 Vanderbilt University 23 51 2,693 9,805 8,443
18 Cornell University 22 49 2,289 9,529 8,097
19 Fordham University 22 44 2,609 7,741 7,679
20 University of California, Davis 19 42 2,016 7,074 7,041
21 Rutgers University 18 40 1,825 6,913 6,939
22 University of Texas at Austin 20 42 2,173 6,284 5,532
23 University of Florida 18 40 1,817 5,929 6,550
24 Brooklyn Law School 23 35 2,311 4,753 4,751
25 University of California, San Francisco 18 42 1,679 6,880 5,778
26 Washington University 19 32 1,624 3,914 6,582
27 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 19 39 1,773 4,882 4,606
28 Boston University 20 31 1,735 3,468 5,464
29 University of California, Irvine 21 31 1,686 3,738 5,329
30 University of Wisconsin-Madison 16 38 1,253 4,888 5,632
31 Ohio State University 15 43 1,250 5,971 4,351
32 American University 15 31 1,097 4,914 6,014
33 Texas A&M University 17 25 1,536 2,581 5,310
34 Arizona State University 14 39 993 6,036 4,420
35 University of Miami 14 36 853 5,830 4,996
36 University of Maryland 15 34 1,294 4,478 3,870
37 Emory University 16 34 1,105 4,032 4,649
38 Southern Methodist University 16 28 1,262 2,607 4,582
39 Florida State University 13 31 988 3,343 5,145
40 Yeshiva University 18 29 1,234 3,215 3,554
41 Indiana University Bloomington 14 34 986 3,680 4,109
42 University of Denver 15 27 1,064 3,043 4,017
43 Loyola Marymount University 16 29 1,038 2,997 4,183
44 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 12 32 959 3,425 4,182
45 University of Iowa 15 32 999 3,444 3,648
46 University of Southern California 16 29 1,002 3,268 3,725
47 George Mason University 12 36 885 4,291 3,399
48 University of Arizona 14 35 851 3,998 3,709
49 University of Houston 11 38 640 5,359 3,213
50 Wake Forest University 18 31 1,058 3,353 2,742
51 University of Colorado Boulder 15 29 906 2,919 3,852
52 Seattle University 14 31 822 4,523 2,802
53 William & Mary Law School 15 29 1,076 2,769 3,069
54 Loyola University Chicago 16 25 961 1,972 4,233
55 Case Western Reserve University 11 32 643 4,579 3,449
56 University of San Diego 12 37 762 4,105 2,736
57 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 15 19 864 3,188 2,779
58 University of Utah 15 29 825 2,979 3,147
59 University at Buffalo 15 18 755 1,611 4,397
60 University of San Francisco 12 34 599 3,459 3,526
61 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 15 24 872 2,260 3,106
62 Temple University 15 24 823 1,846 3,563
63 University of Pittsburgh 11 32 686 3,596 2,589
64 Pennsylvania State University 12 24 853 2,323 2,792
65 DePaul University 10 34 467 3,989 3,211
66 Georgia State University 14 26 736 2,445 2,742
67 Brigham Young University Law School 17 23 786 1,710 2,633
68 University of Notre Dame 12 30 592 3,027 2,372
69 Hofstra University 14 30 690 3,170 1,746
70 University of Washington 12 23 691 1,924 2,814
71 Lewis & Clark Law School 12 26 566 2,431 2,989
72 University of Baltimore 11 23 671 1,969 2,797
73 University of South Carolina 13 23 689 1,449 2,600
74 City University of New York (CUNY) 12 22 691 1,502 2,493
75 University of Connecticut 15 17 681 1,002 2,747
76 Boston College 13 26 633 2,121 1,914
77 University of Georgia 13 20 653 1,502 2,340
78 Pepperdine University 12 23 611 2,034 1,988
79 University of Richmond 12 22 664 1,660 1,988
80 University of St. Thomas 12 22 579 1,879 2,144
81 Pace University 11 26 445 2,549 2,053
82 Seton Hall University 11 23 584 1,693 1,931
83 Northeastern University 11 25 451 2,300 1,961
84 Wayne State University 11 25 481 2,129 1,927
85 University of Oklahoma 12 18 645 1,314 1,772
86 Washington and Lee University 13 19 553 1,416 2,140
87 University of Alabama 13 18 640 1,152 1,887
88 Drexel University 10 21 476 1,398 2,438
89 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 8 23 352 1,990 2,406
90 Catholic University of America 10 24 432 2,007 1,881
91 St. John's University 10 21 552 1,459 1,741
92 New York Law School 10 21 416 1,728 2,178
93 Villanova University 9 21 424 1,919 1,966
94 Michigan State University 11 19 545 1,291 1,748
95 Stetson University 10 22 438 1,698 1,825
96 California Western School of Law 10 20 496 1,471 1,669
97 Santa Clara University 9 24 389 2,097 1,503
98 Southwestern Law School 10 18 399 1,196 1,998
99 Drake University 9 23 375 1,778 1,556
100 University of Missouri 7 27 349 2,125 1,203