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Last Updated: December 2025

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 39 105 7,613 44,533 21,287
2 Harvard University 41 95 7,797 35,576 18,144
3 New York University 35 84 6,837 28,656 20,968
4 Columbia University School of Law 35 75 5,782 23,163 23,424
5 Georgetown University 35 73 6,911 20,892 18,193
6 University of Pennsylvania 35 66 6,114 16,389 14,791
7 University of Virginia 38 58 6,419 13,634 15,596
8 University of Chicago 33 69 5,048 19,194 11,338
9 University of California, Los Angeles 35 55 5,035 10,825 12,176
10 University of California, Berkeley 27 55 3,522 12,655 14,039
11 Duke University 30 52 4,008 10,385 12,265
12 Stanford University 32 61 3,922 12,736 8,405
13 University of Michigan 28 51 3,552 10,572 11,252
14 George Washington University 27 52 3,556 10,159 10,894
15 Northwestern University 22 56 2,864 11,606 10,300
16 University of Minnesota 20 48 2,897 8,775 12,217
17 Cornell University 21 48 2,528 9,113 8,820
18 Fordham University 23 41 2,838 7,121 8,072
19 Vanderbilt University 23 50 2,497 8,890 7,972
20 University of California, Davis 23 42 2,272 6,705 7,509
21 Rutgers University 19 39 2,073 6,555 7,715
22 University of Florida 20 38 2,069 5,618 7,504
23 University of California, San Francisco 21 43 1,920 6,799 6,585
24 Brooklyn Law School 24 32 2,524 4,402 5,164
25 University of Texas at Austin 20 40 2,103 5,760 5,621
26 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 20 38 1,918 4,588 5,202
27 Washington University 20 32 1,769 3,625 6,827
28 Boston University 20 31 1,822 3,382 6,209
29 University of California, Irvine 21 29 1,878 3,288 5,639
30 Ohio State University 17 41 1,519 5,733 4,751
31 University of Wisconsin-Madison 17 35 1,413 4,646 5,528
32 American University 16 30 1,266 4,608 6,057
33 University of Miami 14 36 998 5,632 6,007
34 Arizona State University 15 38 1,179 5,821 4,854
35 William & Mary Law School 20 30 1,864 2,905 4,306
36 Texas A&M University 18 25 1,654 2,343 5,793
37 University of Maryland 17 33 1,460 4,225 4,083
38 Emory University 16 34 1,199 3,867 5,318
39 Southern Methodist University 17 26 1,387 2,406 5,045
40 Florida State University 15 30 1,137 3,126 5,527
41 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 14 31 1,105 3,223 4,751
42 Indiana University Bloomington 15 32 1,092 3,508 4,535
43 University of Denver 18 25 1,240 2,824 4,300
44 Yeshiva University 19 28 1,340 3,018 3,620
45 George Mason University 14 35 1,009 4,125 4,055
46 Loyola Marymount University 16 29 1,195 2,788 4,401
47 University of Southern California 17 28 1,172 3,070 4,048
48 University of Arizona 15 34 957 3,850 3,920
49 University of Houston 11 38 742 5,233 3,618
50 Seattle University 16 31 942 4,365 3,347
51 Case Western Reserve University 12 32 760 4,457 3,866
52 Wake Forest University 17 31 1,171 3,225 2,896
53 University of Colorado Boulder 15 28 988 2,746 4,034
54 University of Iowa 14 29 1,057 2,859 3,487
55 Loyola University Chicago 16 24 1,055 1,825 4,343
56 University of San Diego 13 36 911 3,954 2,824
57 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 16 18 951 3,036 3,027
58 University at Buffalo 15 18 810 1,522 4,975
59 University of San Francisco 14 33 736 3,269 3,629
60 University of Utah 16 27 920 2,824 3,148
61 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 15 24 995 2,174 3,363
62 University of Pittsburgh 13 32 805 3,568 2,905
63 DePaul University 11 34 563 3,873 3,659
64 Brigham Young University 20 24 1,107 1,692 3,118
65 Pennsylvania State University 13 23 968 2,196 3,055
66 Temple University 15 24 877 1,729 3,780
67 Georgia State University 14 25 828 2,312 2,948
68 Hofstra University 15 30 833 2,956 1,957
69 University of Notre Dame 12 29 685 2,927 2,523
70 University of Washington 14 23 808 1,778 2,988
71 Lewis & Clark Law School 12 25 674 2,290 2,966
72 University of Baltimore 13 22 743 1,836 2,843
73 City University of New York (CUNY) 12 22 776 1,420 2,863
74 University of South Carolina 14 21 778 1,342 2,814
75 Boston College 13 26 719 2,099 2,205
76 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 10 26 461 2,286 2,931
77 University of Connecticut 15 16 697 914 3,104
78 Pepperdine University 13 22 674 1,927 2,215
79 Pace University 12 26 539 2,485 2,309
80 University of Richmond 14 21 742 1,534 2,091
81 University of Georgia 15 20 723 1,398 2,247
82 University of St. Thomas 13 21 661 1,761 2,195
83 Wayne State University 11 25 576 2,008 2,047
84 Northeastern University 12 25 525 2,240 2,032
85 Seton Hall University 12 22 651 1,564 2,012
86 Drexel University 11 21 536 1,282 2,766
87 University of Oklahoma 13 18 713 1,206 1,948
88 Washington and Lee University 13 18 582 1,328 2,277
89 Catholic University of America 11 23 513 1,899 1,949
90 University of Alabama 14 18 676 1,050 1,969
91 Villanova University 9 21 474 1,839 2,146
92 St. John's University 11 20 602 1,370 1,893
93 New York Law School 10 20 455 1,643 2,314
94 Drake University 10 21 492 1,680 2,011
95 Michigan State University 13 18 600 1,182 1,957
96 Santa Clara University 10 23 474 2,022 1,678
97 Stetson University 12 21 500 1,632 1,895
98 California Western School of Law 11 19 586 1,356 1,742
99 Southwestern Law School 10 17 455 1,113 2,299
100 University of Cincinnati 10 24 369 1,776 1,733