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Last Updated: May 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 23 60 2,053 13,252 5,868
2 Harvard University 21 49 1,596 11,148 4,754
3 University of California, Los Angeles 19 38 1,458 6,645 4,253
4 New York University 16 40 1,111 6,726 3,485
5 University of California, Berkeley 15 38 1,046 5,588 3,683
6 University of Virginia 16 41 1,003 5,955 3,265
7 Georgetown University 17 36 1,121 4,262 3,272
8 Stanford University 15 33 1,025 5,489 1,754
9 Columbia University School of Law 13 33 863 3,971 2,734
10 University of Chicago 15 30 890 4,326 1,978
11 Seattle University 10 32 704 4,828 1,813
12 University of California, Irvine 12 29 600 3,296 2,040
13 University of Pennsylvania 14 22 788 2,072 2,177
14 Rutgers University 11 25 619 2,307 2,046
15 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 14 19 734 1,442 2,225
16 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 8 19 546 3,151 1,562
17 University of South Carolina 12 21 618 1,394 2,250
18 Vanderbilt University 11 20 543 2,688 1,219
19 University of St. Thomas 12 21 606 1,317 1,939
20 Boston University 12 20 546 1,273 2,160
21 University of Florida 11 23 433 2,045 2,006
22 University of Michigan 11 23 452 2,014 1,912
23 Arizona State University 10 23 441 2,312 1,590
24 George Washington University 9 23 393 2,007 2,031
25 Northwestern University 12 24 528 1,821 1,495
26 Fordham University 11 25 492 1,742 1,673
27 Washington University 9 29 457 2,194 1,402
28 University of California, Davis 9 22 451 1,633 1,630
29 University of Denver 12 14 561 808 1,789
30 Temple University 10 22 474 1,459 1,637
31 Texas A&M University 10 20 438 1,290 1,690
32 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 10 24 437 1,800 1,182
33 University of Minnesota 9 17 453 899 1,739
34 University of California, San Francisco 10 22 338 1,717 1,530
35 American University 8 19 394 1,333 1,567
36 Suffolk University 11 16 446 1,084 1,389
37 Wake Forest University 8 16 309 1,091 2,046
38 University of Wisconsin-Madison 7 26 255 2,387 1,139
39 Cornell University 9 20 274 1,503 1,808
40 Southwestern Law School 11 14 447 637 1,497
41 William & Mary Law School 7 16 158 612 2,951
42 Northeastern University 7 19 239 1,761 1,357
43 University of Pittsburgh 9 19 297 1,387 1,369
44 Emory University 7 18 291 1,383 1,387
45 University of Baltimore 6 13 156 481 2,743
46 New York Law School 9 19 238 1,559 1,250
47 Ohio State University 8 20 294 1,475 964
48 Southern Methodist University 9 15 300 678 1,555
49 Brooklyn Law School 9 17 366 781 1,069
50 University of Colorado Boulder 10 19 340 1,105 796
51 Florida State University 9 15 278 1,034 1,076
52 University of Miami 7 18 268 1,168 981
53 Duke University 10 17 336 636 1,058
54 Indiana University Bloomington 8 20 253 1,148 968
55 Georgia State University 10 17 329 885 782
56 Pepperdine University 7 15 231 805 1,288
57 University of Texas at Austin 7 23 209 1,625 646
58 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 8 19 282 1,114 727
59 University of New Mexico 8 15 259 851 960
60 Drexel University 9 18 270 815 903
61 University of San Diego 7 19 198 1,382 749
62 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 9 16 291 740 797
63 George Mason University 8 16 227 1,070 765
64 Loyola University Chicago 8 15 265 667 826
65 Loyola Marymount University 8 18 242 830 725
66 University of Missouri-Kansas City 8 18 180 1,135 763
67 Michigan State University 8 15 205 967 754
68 University of Southern California 7 12 223 605 972
69 University of Notre Dame 6 15 204 771 882
70 University of Illinois Chicago 8 13 243 605 821
71 University of Arizona 7 11 171 748 1,046
72 University at Buffalo 7 16 193 913 736
73 St. John's University 8 13 216 699 739
74 Pennsylvania State University 7 13 204 555 875
75 Nova Southeastern University 6 16 188 749 767
76 University of Washington 7 13 196 648 760
77 Wayne State University 7 14 175 874 661
78 Marquette University 6 14 163 751 823
79 Brigham Young University Law School 7 14 166 603 920
80 University of Maryland 8 14 230 666 535
81 Boston College 8 12 184 772 612
82 Syracuse University 7 11 195 506 774
83 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 6 16 147 795 685
84 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 7 12 210 658 488
85 University of Houston 6 17 134 874 642
86 Mercer University 7 15 191 701 511
87 Yeshiva University 6 14 148 916 534
88 Villanova University 6 10 178 594 587
89 University of Louisville 6 12 151 527 778
90 University of Iowa 7 11 169 449 749
91 Hofstra University 5 15 152 760 531
92 Santa Clara University 6 16 136 821 513
93 Stetson University 7 14 179 575 507
94 Indiana University Indianapolis 6 15 145 702 534
95 DePaul University 6 14 120 679 678
96 Howard University 7 15 155 574 586
97 University of Connecticut 8 12 168 430 616
98 Florida International University 6 11 137 355 797
99 City University of New York (CUNY) 7 10 158 284 676
100 University of Cincinnati 7 13 139 642 434