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Last Updated: February 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 35 108 6,477 46,372 19,903
2 Harvard University 36 97 6,533 36,776 16,750
3 New York University 31 86 5,761 30,083 19,229
4 Columbia University School of Law 34 76 4,976 24,142 21,980
5 Georgetown University 32 75 5,957 22,091 16,715
6 University of Pennsylvania 32 70 5,210 17,607 13,597
7 University of Virginia 35 60 5,512 14,690 14,423
8 University of Chicago 29 72 4,321 20,244 10,414
9 University of California, Los Angeles 32 59 4,399 11,656 11,145
10 University of California, Berkeley 25 56 2,960 13,404 13,382
11 Duke University 25 55 3,402 11,172 11,286
12 Stanford University 28 62 3,212 13,527 7,804
13 University of Michigan 26 52 3,045 11,125 10,249
14 George Washington University 24 54 3,034 10,784 10,187
15 University of Minnesota 18 49 2,560 9,362 11,564
16 Northwestern University 20 57 2,410 12,128 9,540
17 Vanderbilt University 23 51 2,611 9,818 8,449
18 Cornell University 21 49 2,205 9,534 8,185
19 Fordham University 21 43 2,443 7,678 7,647
20 University of California, Davis 18 42 1,935 7,085 6,870
21 Rutgers University 18 41 1,810 7,002 7,099
22 University of Texas at Austin 19 42 2,089 6,316 5,481
23 Brooklyn Law School 22 34 2,388 4,744 5,004
24 University of Florida 18 40 1,795 6,034 6,865
25 University of California, San Francisco 18 42 1,577 6,543 5,944
26 University of California, Irvine 21 31 1,809 3,755 5,493
27 Washington University 19 32 1,531 3,925 6,385
28 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 19 39 1,656 4,877 4,752
29 Boston University 18 31 1,633 3,493 5,589
30 Ohio State University 15 43 1,268 6,031 4,329
31 University of Wisconsin-Madison 15 38 1,205 4,886 5,118
32 American University 15 31 1,053 4,906 5,841
33 Texas A&M University 16 25 1,450 2,567 5,371
34 Arizona State University 14 39 973 6,024 4,468
35 University of Miami 14 36 833 5,833 5,115
36 University of Maryland 15 34 1,248 4,500 3,824
37 Emory University 16 34 1,060 4,038 4,776
38 Southern Methodist University 15 28 1,205 2,607 4,626
39 Florida State University 13 31 940 3,344 5,176
40 Yeshiva University 18 29 1,184 3,215 3,346
41 Indiana University Bloomington 14 34 937 3,680 4,097
42 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 12 32 909 3,441 4,328
43 Loyola Marymount University 16 29 1,004 3,002 4,214
44 University of Denver 15 27 1,025 3,058 3,998
45 University of Southern California 16 29 982 3,302 3,781
46 George Mason University 12 36 831 4,219 3,593
47 University of Arizona 14 35 819 3,992 3,694
48 University of Houston 10 38 604 5,281 3,302
49 Seattle University 13 31 781 4,541 2,949
50 Wake Forest University 17 31 1,013 3,349 2,650
51 William & Mary Law School 14 29 1,041 2,770 2,976
52 Case Western Reserve University 11 32 628 4,588 3,496
53 University of Colorado Boulder 14 29 849 2,907 3,722
54 Loyola University Chicago 15 25 923 1,982 4,027
55 University of Iowa 14 30 903 3,034 3,201
56 University of San Diego 12 37 740 4,144 2,607
57 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 14 19 830 3,190 2,797
58 University at Buffalo 15 18 724 1,602 4,541
59 University of Utah 15 29 782 2,971 2,959
60 University of San Francisco 12 34 571 3,462 3,464
61 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 14 25 825 2,358 3,052
62 Pennsylvania State University 12 24 831 2,362 2,850
63 DePaul University 10 34 454 3,997 3,354
64 Temple University 14 24 785 1,801 3,550
65 University of Pittsburgh 11 32 658 3,570 2,663
66 Georgia State University 14 26 714 2,454 2,788
67 Hofstra University 14 30 667 3,137 1,831
68 Brigham Young University Law School 16 23 752 1,710 2,618
69 University of Notre Dame 11 30 567 3,025 2,329
70 University of Washington 12 22 673 1,802 2,796
71 Lewis & Clark Law School 12 26 549 2,482 2,750
72 University of Baltimore 11 23 646 1,968 2,688
73 University of South Carolina 13 23 666 1,465 2,630
74 City University of New York (CUNY) 12 22 654 1,502 2,529
75 University of Connecticut 14 17 641 1,013 2,927
76 Boston College 12 26 599 2,123 1,962
77 Pepperdine University 12 23 586 2,040 2,025
78 University of Georgia 13 20 634 1,503 2,160
79 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 9 26 373 2,391 2,716
80 University of St. Thomas 12 22 556 1,897 2,091
81 University of Richmond 11 22 618 1,659 1,934
82 Pace University 11 26 429 2,569 2,103
83 Northeastern University 10 25 438 2,350 1,978
84 Seton Hall University 10 23 561 1,683 1,844
85 University of Oklahoma 12 18 619 1,317 1,796
86 Drexel University 10 21 456 1,400 2,554
87 Wayne State University 11 24 463 2,083 1,864
88 Washington and Lee University 13 18 527 1,394 2,092
89 University of Alabama 12 18 602 1,143 1,828
90 Villanova University 9 21 405 1,918 1,972
91 St. John's University 10 21 523 1,459 1,750
92 New York Law School 10 21 398 1,687 2,161
93 Catholic University of America 10 24 421 2,005 1,766
94 Stetson University 10 22 429 1,705 1,809
95 Michigan State University 11 18 491 1,249 1,765
96 California Western School of Law 10 20 477 1,471 1,642
97 Santa Clara University 9 24 382 2,101 1,532
98 Drake University 9 23 380 1,799 1,739
99 Southwestern Law School 10 18 385 1,188 2,137
100 University of Cincinnati 9 24 311 1,832 1,660