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Last Updated: November 2025

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 39 106 7,516 43,694 22,337
2 Harvard University 40 95 7,684 35,423 18,953
3 New York University 35 84 6,732 28,988 21,911
4 Columbia University School of Law 35 75 5,687 23,194 24,079
5 Georgetown University 34 73 6,840 20,834 18,958
6 University of Pennsylvania 35 67 6,030 16,503 15,472
7 University of Virginia 37 58 6,156 12,969 16,052
8 University of Chicago 32 69 5,008 19,057 11,908
9 University of California, Los Angeles 33 56 4,736 11,272 11,336
10 University of California, Berkeley 26 56 3,491 12,746 14,416
11 Duke University 29 52 3,944 10,377 12,673
12 Stanford University 32 62 3,852 12,844 8,714
13 University of Michigan 28 51 3,496 10,515 11,848
14 Northwestern University 23 56 2,972 10,948 11,844
15 University of Minnesota 20 48 2,864 8,777 12,670
16 George Washington University 25 50 2,730 9,464 9,242
17 Cornell University 21 48 2,538 9,155 9,378
18 Fordham University 23 40 2,767 7,072 8,405
19 Vanderbilt University 22 50 2,445 8,898 8,185
20 University of California, Davis 22 42 2,239 6,696 7,767
21 Rutgers University 19 39 2,021 6,523 8,078
22 University of Florida 20 38 2,045 5,621 7,779
23 University of California, San Francisco 21 42 1,881 6,534 6,778
24 American University 21 33 1,895 5,169 7,845
25 Brooklyn Law School 24 32 2,491 4,383 5,305
26 University of Texas at Austin 20 39 2,050 5,671 5,913
27 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 20 38 1,931 4,641 5,630
28 Washington University 20 32 1,745 3,639 7,072
29 Boston University 20 31 1,789 3,367 6,387
30 University of California, Irvine 21 29 1,865 3,288 5,947
31 Ohio State University 17 41 1,498 5,746 5,075
32 University of Wisconsin-Madison 17 35 1,395 4,588 5,674
33 University of Miami 14 36 986 5,628 6,320
34 Arizona State University 15 38 1,164 5,798 5,006
35 William & Mary Law School 20 30 1,840 2,905 4,471
36 Texas A&M University 18 25 1,642 2,342 5,971
37 University of Maryland 17 33 1,477 4,223 4,535
38 Emory University 16 34 1,194 4,005 5,605
39 Southern Methodist University 17 26 1,370 2,406 5,306
40 Florida State University 15 29 1,104 3,060 5,595
41 Indiana University Bloomington 15 32 1,084 3,510 4,776
42 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 14 31 1,094 3,214 5,016
43 University of Denver 18 25 1,235 2,844 4,494
44 Yeshiva University 19 28 1,314 3,029 3,718
45 Loyola Marymount University 16 29 1,167 2,781 4,606
46 University of Southern California 17 28 1,152 3,070 4,259
47 University of Houston 11 38 733 5,221 3,732
48 Seattle University 16 31 932 4,368 3,467
49 University of Arizona 15 34 937 3,855 3,919
50 Case Western Reserve University 12 32 751 4,435 4,019
51 George Mason University 14 31 951 3,466 3,842
52 University of Colorado Boulder 15 28 1,000 2,750 4,226
53 Wake Forest University 17 31 1,154 3,178 2,992
54 University of Iowa 14 29 1,035 2,859 3,653
55 Loyola University Chicago 16 24 1,035 1,829 4,405
56 University of San Diego 12 36 879 3,923 2,899
57 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 15 18 931 3,036 3,149
58 University of San Francisco 14 33 723 3,269 3,827
59 University of Pittsburgh 13 32 792 3,560 3,142
60 University at Buffalo 15 18 797 1,522 5,097
61 University of Utah 16 27 904 2,834 3,279
62 DePaul University 11 34 561 3,873 3,794
63 Brigham Young University 20 24 1,095 1,692 3,195
64 Pennsylvania State University 14 23 985 2,194 3,246
65 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 15 23 970 2,020 3,461
66 Temple University 15 24 845 1,684 3,702
67 Georgia State University 14 25 814 2,304 3,121
68 Hofstra University 15 30 828 3,002 2,141
69 University of Notre Dame 12 29 678 2,930 2,643
70 University of Washington 14 22 781 1,655 3,092
71 Lewis & Clark Law School 12 25 665 2,290 3,028
72 University of Baltimore 12 22 733 1,835 2,933
73 City University of New York (CUNY) 12 22 767 1,420 3,028
74 Pepperdine University 13 22 749 1,927 2,520
75 University of Connecticut 15 16 748 912 3,507
76 University of South Carolina 13 22 779 1,362 2,880
77 University of Richmond 14 22 776 1,660 2,240
78 Boston College 13 26 699 2,099 2,184
79 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 10 26 456 2,286 3,095
80 Pace University 12 26 529 2,485 2,440
81 University of Georgia 15 20 716 1,421 2,291
82 University of St. Thomas 13 21 652 1,761 2,279
83 Wayne State University 11 25 577 2,024 2,171
84 Northeastern University 12 25 524 2,223 2,151
85 Seton Hall University 12 22 645 1,564 2,101
86 University of Oklahoma 13 18 707 1,206 2,080
87 Drexel University 11 21 530 1,264 2,831
88 Washington and Lee University 13 18 572 1,329 2,393
89 University of Alabama 14 18 669 1,059 2,062
90 Villanova University 9 21 471 1,839 2,287
91 Catholic University of America 10 23 501 1,896 2,059
92 New York Law School 10 21 453 1,669 2,503
93 St. John's University 11 20 597 1,380 2,032
94 Drake University 10 21 485 1,680 2,176
95 Michigan State University 13 18 590 1,179 2,036
96 Santa Clara University 10 23 471 2,022 1,741
97 California Western School of Law 11 19 577 1,356 1,801
98 Southwestern Law School 10 17 479 1,126 2,359
99 Stetson University 11 21 469 1,528 1,884
100 University of Cincinnati 10 24 367 1,787 1,834