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Last Updated: January 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 40 106 7,685 43,815 21,523
2 Harvard University 41 96 7,820 35,398 18,075
3 New York University 35 84 6,864 28,969 20,788
4 Columbia University School of Law 35 75 5,868 23,221 23,719
5 Georgetown University 35 72 6,898 20,715 17,848
6 University of Pennsylvania 35 66 6,159 16,400 14,713
7 University of Virginia 38 58 6,254 12,971 15,326
8 University of Chicago 33 69 5,093 19,370 11,397
9 University of California, Los Angeles 36 56 5,141 11,158 12,371
10 University of California, Berkeley 27 56 3,619 12,669 14,599
11 Duke University 30 52 4,032 10,335 12,217
12 Stanford University 32 62 3,911 12,858 8,450
13 University of Michigan 28 51 3,534 10,517 11,159
14 George Washington University 27 52 3,573 10,133 10,783
15 University of Minnesota 20 48 2,936 8,790 12,303
16 Northwestern University 22 56 2,692 11,014 10,139
17 Vanderbilt University 25 50 3,036 9,231 8,758
18 Cornell University 21 48 2,546 9,104 8,730
19 Fordham University 23 41 2,866 7,152 8,083
20 University of California, Davis 23 42 2,272 6,693 7,337
21 Rutgers University 19 39 2,058 6,517 7,561
22 University of Florida 20 38 2,089 5,625 7,422
23 University of Texas at Austin 21 39 2,376 5,773 5,807
24 University of California, San Francisco 21 43 1,908 6,765 6,420
25 Brooklyn Law School 24 32 2,540 4,389 5,165
26 Washington University 20 31 1,819 3,613 6,905
27 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 20 38 1,909 4,577 5,113
28 Boston University 20 30 1,829 3,236 6,145
29 University of California, Irvine 21 29 1,896 3,289 5,723
30 Ohio State University 17 41 1,533 5,757 4,659
31 University of Wisconsin-Madison 17 35 1,415 4,545 5,583
32 American University 16 30 1,269 4,609 6,064
33 University of Miami 14 36 1,007 5,629 5,919
34 Texas A&M University 19 25 1,679 2,330 5,740
35 Arizona State University 15 38 1,181 5,815 4,781
36 University of Maryland 17 33 1,469 4,229 4,111
37 Emory University 16 34 1,215 3,871 5,256
38 Southern Methodist University 17 26 1,382 2,407 5,000
39 Florida State University 15 29 1,105 3,054 5,482
40 Indiana University Bloomington 15 32 1,103 3,513 4,472
41 University of Denver 18 25 1,254 2,849 4,332
42 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 14 31 1,108 3,209 4,656
43 Yeshiva University 19 28 1,349 3,030 3,614
44 George Mason University 14 35 1,019 4,121 4,048
45 Loyola Marymount University 16 29 1,179 2,776 4,391
46 University of Southern California 18 28 1,171 3,015 4,053
47 University of Arizona 15 34 958 3,852 3,968
48 University of Houston 11 38 748 5,225 3,547
49 Seattle University 16 31 939 4,384 3,221
50 University of Colorado Boulder 15 28 1,026 2,761 4,161
51 William & Mary Law School 17 27 1,272 2,485 3,236
52 Case Western Reserve University 12 32 761 4,409 3,825
53 Wake Forest University 18 31 1,179 3,204 2,913
54 University of Iowa 15 29 1,067 2,883 3,462
55 Loyola University Chicago 16 24 1,052 1,830 4,291
56 University of San Diego 13 36 912 3,931 2,803
57 University at Buffalo 16 19 838 1,595 4,972
58 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 16 18 956 3,036 3,011
59 University of San Francisco 14 33 740 3,269 3,663
60 University of Utah 16 27 922 2,834 3,135
61 University of Pittsburgh 13 32 812 3,562 2,937
62 DePaul University 11 34 567 3,875 3,620
63 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 15 23 1,006 2,036 3,270
64 Pennsylvania State University 13 24 992 2,207 3,137
65 Georgia State University 14 25 832 2,310 2,973
66 Temple University 15 23 852 1,641 3,504
67 Hofstra University 15 30 849 3,000 1,984
68 University of Notre Dame 12 29 696 2,934 2,515
69 University of Washington 14 23 803 1,779 3,010
70 Brigham Young University Law School 17 23 848 1,603 2,905
71 Lewis & Clark Law School 12 25 676 2,290 2,984
72 University of South Carolina 14 22 786 1,363 2,788
73 City University of New York (CUNY) 12 22 740 1,410 2,813
74 Boston College 13 26 716 2,099 2,097
75 University of Connecticut 15 17 705 937 3,097
76 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 10 26 464 2,286 2,939
77 University of Baltimore 12 22 656 1,836 2,431
78 Pepperdine University 13 22 674 1,921 2,195
79 Pace University 12 25 541 2,453 2,264
80 University of Richmond 14 21 744 1,528 2,083
81 University of Georgia 15 20 722 1,398 2,298
82 University of St. Thomas 13 21 666 1,766 2,184
83 Wayne State University 11 25 576 2,009 2,099
84 Northeastern University 12 25 533 2,248 2,054
85 Seton Hall University 12 22 652 1,569 2,036
86 Drexel University 11 21 534 1,273 2,763
87 University of Oklahoma 13 18 721 1,206 1,934
88 Washington and Lee University 13 18 604 1,335 2,260
89 New York Law School 10 21 476 1,668 2,431
90 University of Alabama 14 18 687 1,058 1,986
91 Catholic University of America 11 23 515 1,902 1,883
92 Villanova University 10 21 474 1,838 2,131
93 St. John's University 11 20 601 1,370 1,872
94 Drake University 10 21 495 1,680 1,959
95 Michigan State University 12 17 597 1,146 1,913
96 California Western School of Law 11 19 589 1,356 1,744
97 Santa Clara University 10 23 470 2,022 1,651
98 Southwestern Law School 10 17 487 1,135 2,336
99 Stetson University 11 21 478 1,528 1,876
100 University of Cincinnati 10 24 370 1,787 1,762