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Last Updated: April 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 23 59 2,009 13,149 5,917
2 Harvard University 21 47 1,512 9,296 4,676
3 University of California, Los Angeles 18 39 1,418 6,715 4,216
4 New York University 16 40 1,084 6,721 3,547
5 University of California, Berkeley 15 39 1,041 5,646 3,893
6 University of Virginia 15 41 982 5,952 3,317
7 Georgetown University 17 36 1,099 4,260 3,408
8 Stanford University 15 33 994 5,439 1,682
9 Columbia University School of Law 13 33 848 3,994 2,762
10 University of Chicago 15 30 873 4,326 2,021
11 Seattle University 10 32 698 4,826 1,782
12 University of California, Irvine 12 29 587 3,278 2,104
13 University of Pennsylvania 14 22 722 2,057 2,089
14 Rutgers University 11 25 589 2,327 2,150
15 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 14 19 724 1,445 2,110
16 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 8 19 532 3,072 1,460
17 University of South Carolina 12 21 627 1,395 2,329
18 George Washington University 9 24 422 2,193 2,262
19 Vanderbilt University 11 20 528 2,688 1,215
20 University of St. Thomas 12 21 604 1,314 1,937
21 Northwestern University 12 24 528 1,837 1,720
22 Boston University 12 20 530 1,236 2,209
23 University of Florida 11 23 424 2,046 2,019
24 University of Michigan 11 23 441 2,008 1,939
25 Fordham University 10 24 479 1,696 1,898
26 Arizona State University 10 23 426 2,305 1,521
27 Washington University 9 29 445 2,194 1,403
28 University of California, Davis 9 22 444 1,644 1,667
29 Temple University 10 22 467 1,457 1,609
30 University of Denver 12 13 542 759 1,788
31 Texas A&M University 10 20 432 1,304 1,797
32 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 10 24 431 1,806 1,210
33 Duke University 10 23 391 1,893 1,301
34 American University 8 20 395 1,373 1,603
35 University of Minnesota 9 16 448 869 1,773
36 University of California, San Francisco 10 22 332 1,702 1,516
37 Suffolk University 11 16 437 1,082 1,453
38 University of Wisconsin-Madison 7 26 260 2,415 1,162
39 William & Mary Law School 8 16 197 693 2,980
40 Wake Forest University 8 16 307 1,089 2,060
41 Cornell University 9 21 272 1,526 1,835
42 Southwestern Law School 11 14 441 637 1,520
43 Northeastern University 7 18 239 1,753 1,546
44 Emory University 7 18 296 1,425 1,422
45 University of Pittsburgh 9 19 293 1,382 1,287
46 University of Baltimore 6 13 155 480 2,778
47 New York Law School 9 19 235 1,558 1,204
48 Southern Methodist University 9 15 298 678 1,580
49 Ohio State University 8 20 281 1,464 944
50 University of San Diego 8 21 223 1,599 1,020
51 University of Colorado Boulder 10 18 338 1,086 830
52 Florida State University 9 15 276 1,033 1,133
53 University of Miami 7 18 265 1,164 1,014
54 Brooklyn Law School 9 16 334 697 1,030
55 Pepperdine University 7 15 226 804 1,381
56 Georgia State University 10 17 320 885 810
57 Indiana University Bloomington 8 20 248 1,152 931
58 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 8 19 272 1,091 761
59 University of Texas at Austin 7 23 204 1,625 624
60 University of New Mexico 7 15 255 851 1,019
61 Drexel University 8 18 266 815 903
62 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 9 15 282 736 783
63 George Mason University 8 16 222 1,070 782
64 Michigan State University 7 16 203 997 844
65 Loyola University Chicago 8 15 259 667 851
66 Loyola Marymount University 8 18 245 855 717
67 University of Missouri-Kansas City 8 18 175 1,135 757
68 University of Southern California 7 12 215 605 1,007
69 University of Arizona 7 11 170 748 1,056
70 University of Illinois Chicago 8 13 235 591 848
71 University of Notre Dame 6 15 193 771 883
72 University at Buffalo 7 16 191 913 756
73 St. John's University 8 13 210 699 772
74 Pennsylvania State University 7 12 206 523 924
75 Boston College 7 14 179 911 706
76 Nova Southeastern University 6 15 181 711 759
77 University of Washington 7 13 192 647 759
78 Wayne State University 7 14 172 874 641
79 Brigham Young University Law School 7 14 161 601 931
80 City University of New York (CUNY) 7 14 183 602 810
81 University of Maryland 8 14 223 662 532
82 Marquette University 6 14 153 740 790
83 Syracuse University 7 11 190 506 759
84 Yeshiva University 6 14 146 916 582
85 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 6 16 144 781 708
86 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 7 12 200 646 505
87 University of Houston 6 17 133 872 638
88 Mercer University 6 15 186 701 520
89 University of Iowa 7 11 169 457 767
90 Hofstra University 5 15 152 770 569
91 University of Louisville 6 12 144 526 806
92 Villanova University 6 10 175 589 560
93 Santa Clara University 6 16 132 820 547
94 Stetson University 7 14 178 576 505
95 Case Western Reserve University 7 14 133 752 556
96 Indiana University Indianapolis 6 15 146 710 512
97 University of Connecticut 8 12 165 430 662
98 Touro University 6 11 141 568 592
99 Howard University 7 15 146 567 554
100 Drake University 7 7 177 183 686