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Last Updated: March 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 23 59 1,956 13,156 6,016
2 Harvard University 21 50 1,552 11,509 5,063
3 University of California, Los Angeles 18 38 1,399 6,641 4,275
4 New York University 16 40 1,072 6,702 3,633
5 Georgetown University 16 37 1,163 5,042 3,773
6 University of California, Berkeley 15 38 1,009 5,608 3,913
7 University of Virginia 15 41 959 5,934 3,450
8 Stanford University 15 33 979 5,447 1,738
9 Columbia University School of Law 13 33 836 3,971 2,826
10 University of Chicago 15 29 828 4,288 2,068
11 Seattle University 11 32 711 4,950 1,922
12 University of California, Irvine 12 29 580 3,276 2,162
13 University of Pennsylvania 14 22 692 2,058 2,179
14 Rutgers University 11 25 594 2,399 2,225
15 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 14 19 722 1,442 2,189
16 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 8 19 518 3,075 1,458
17 University of South Carolina 12 21 615 1,395 2,338
18 George Washington University 9 25 416 2,223 2,374
19 Vanderbilt University 11 20 523 2,720 1,260
20 University of St. Thomas 12 21 595 1,340 2,092
21 University of Michigan 11 23 436 1,989 2,099
22 Boston University 12 20 517 1,240 2,334
23 Northwestern University 12 24 515 1,848 1,777
24 University of Florida 11 23 414 2,040 2,050
25 Fordham University 10 25 474 1,708 1,969
26 Arizona State University 10 23 422 2,306 1,551
27 Washington University 9 29 429 2,176 1,430
28 University of California, Davis 9 22 436 1,631 1,753
29 Texas A&M University 10 20 427 1,282 2,061
30 University of Denver 12 13 539 763 1,818
31 Temple University 10 22 449 1,459 1,640
32 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 10 24 422 1,799 1,280
33 Duke University 10 23 384 1,883 1,324
34 American University 8 20 389 1,373 1,697
35 University of Minnesota 9 16 435 871 1,869
36 University of California, San Francisco 9 22 330 1,712 1,562
37 Suffolk University 11 16 433 1,084 1,534
38 Wake Forest University 8 16 298 1,089 2,122
39 University of Wisconsin-Madison 7 26 246 2,388 1,202
40 Cornell University 9 20 252 1,491 1,824
41 Southwestern Law School 11 14 435 637 1,622
42 Northeastern University 7 19 231 1,755 1,625
43 William & Mary Law School 7 16 151 612 2,934
44 University of Pittsburgh 9 19 290 1,387 1,443
45 Emory University 7 18 283 1,422 1,421
46 University of Baltimore 6 13 151 481 2,812
47 New York Law School 8 19 228 1,560 1,275
48 Southern Methodist University 9 15 297 678 1,672
49 Ohio State University 8 20 274 1,472 1,039
50 University of Colorado Boulder 10 19 332 1,105 839
51 Florida State University 9 15 272 1,034 1,134
52 University of Miami 7 18 262 1,165 1,065
53 Pepperdine University 8 16 233 822 1,467
54 Brooklyn Law School 9 16 327 699 1,042
55 Indiana University Bloomington 8 20 250 1,157 1,012
56 University of San Diego 7 19 199 1,411 999
57 Georgia State University 10 17 319 885 835
58 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 8 19 270 1,092 787
59 University of New Mexico 7 15 253 847 1,066
60 University of Texas at Austin 6 22 189 1,551 652
61 Drexel University 8 18 259 803 929
62 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 9 15 278 739 791
63 George Mason University 8 16 213 1,071 775
64 University of Southern California 7 12 218 659 1,088
65 Loyola Marymount University 8 18 244 860 740
66 Loyola University Chicago 8 15 250 667 883
67 Michigan State University 7 15 198 967 866
68 University of Missouri-Kansas City 7 18 168 1,135 816
69 University of Illinois Chicago 8 13 234 604 850
70 University at Buffalo 7 16 189 913 806
71 University of Arizona 7 11 164 750 1,061
72 University of Notre Dame 6 15 183 773 911
73 Pennsylvania State University 7 13 196 554 993
74 St. John's University 8 13 204 699 810
75 Boston College 7 14 174 906 782
76 University of Washington 7 13 192 648 779
77 Nova Southeastern University 6 15 183 715 764
78 Wayne State University 7 14 168 874 678
79 Brigham Young University Law School 7 14 157 602 956
80 University of Maryland 8 14 220 665 556
81 City University of New York (CUNY) 7 14 181 602 820
82 Marquette University 6 14 149 741 798
83 Syracuse University 7 11 189 509 776
84 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 7 12 200 658 569
85 Mercer University 6 15 186 700 543
86 Yeshiva University 6 13 141 883 612
87 University of Houston 6 17 132 874 664
88 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 5 15 135 757 730
89 University of Louisville 5 12 142 527 879
90 University of Iowa 7 11 162 449 792
91 Hofstra University 5 15 148 757 574
92 Santa Clara University 6 16 128 821 594
93 University of Connecticut 8 12 165 430 750
94 Villanova University 6 10 170 594 577
95 Stetson University 7 14 183 575 514
96 Case Western Reserve University 7 14 133 753 599
97 Howard University 7 15 150 574 628
98 DePaul University 6 14 114 721 658
99 Indiana University Indianapolis 6 15 141 701 508
100 Drake University 7 7 171 183 699