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Last Updated: February 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 23 59 1,924 13,144 5,926
2 Harvard University 21 50 1,540 11,541 4,932
3 University of California, Los Angeles 18 38 1,385 6,646 4,114
4 New York University 16 40 1,071 6,703 3,491
5 Georgetown University 16 37 1,136 5,041 3,603
6 University of California, Berkeley 15 38 998 5,588 3,813
7 University of Virginia 15 41 946 5,962 3,316
8 Stanford University 14 33 970 5,478 1,666
9 Columbia University School of Law 13 33 817 3,970 2,716
10 University of Chicago 15 30 844 4,329 2,056
11 Seattle University 10 32 681 4,828 1,796
12 University of California, Irvine 12 29 568 3,276 2,122
13 University of Pennsylvania 14 22 721 2,058 2,138
14 Rutgers University 11 25 588 2,435 2,204
15 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 14 19 682 1,443 2,145
16 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 8 18 505 3,039 1,404
17 University of South Carolina 12 21 602 1,395 2,261
18 Vanderbilt University 11 20 513 2,688 1,242
19 George Washington University 9 25 405 2,223 2,193
20 University of St. Thomas 11 21 583 1,323 2,001
21 University of Michigan 10 23 423 1,934 2,033
22 Boston University 12 20 497 1,234 2,254
23 University of Florida 11 23 413 2,046 1,963
24 Fordham University 10 25 467 1,753 1,869
25 Northwestern University 12 24 494 1,821 1,430
26 Arizona State University 10 23 414 2,307 1,420
27 Washington University 8 29 427 2,254 1,347
28 University of California, Davis 9 22 431 1,641 1,693
29 Texas A&M University 10 20 422 1,283 2,023
30 Temple University 10 22 444 1,459 1,610
31 University of Denver 12 13 518 745 1,770
32 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 10 25 409 1,820 1,195
33 University of Minnesota 9 17 430 899 1,864
34 American University 8 20 384 1,373 1,634
35 Duke University 10 23 372 1,889 1,205
36 Suffolk University 11 16 429 1,073 1,507
37 University of California, San Francisco 9 21 314 1,598 1,545
38 University of Wisconsin-Madison 7 26 243 2,387 1,119
39 Wake Forest University 8 16 295 1,085 1,974
40 Southwestern Law School 11 14 420 637 1,671
41 Northeastern University 7 19 229 1,761 1,676
42 Cornell University 9 20 241 1,499 1,691
43 University of Pittsburgh 9 19 281 1,386 1,365
44 Emory University 6 18 270 1,423 1,310
45 William & Mary Law School 7 16 147 612 2,575
46 New York Law School 8 19 221 1,559 1,233
47 Southern Methodist University 9 15 290 678 1,624
48 University of Baltimore 6 13 151 481 2,471
49 Ohio State University 8 20 268 1,472 982
50 University of Colorado Boulder 10 19 327 1,105 793
51 Florida State University 9 15 268 1,045 1,142
52 University of Miami 7 18 255 1,165 1,043
53 Pepperdine University 7 15 220 805 1,471
54 Brooklyn Law School 8 16 321 709 971
55 Indiana University Bloomington 8 20 241 1,148 908
56 Georgia State University 10 17 310 843 792
57 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 8 19 252 1,114 795
58 University of New Mexico 7 15 248 847 974
59 University of Texas at Austin 6 23 186 1,627 612
60 Loyola University Chicago 8 15 250 916 870
61 University of San Diego 7 19 191 1,378 760
62 Drexel University 8 18 256 804 910
63 University of Southern California 7 12 215 659 1,079
64 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 9 15 269 738 728
65 George Mason University 8 16 208 1,071 721
66 Michigan State University 7 15 192 954 891
67 University of Missouri-Kansas City 7 18 164 1,135 769
68 Loyola Marymount University 8 18 241 860 606
69 University at Buffalo 7 16 187 913 794
70 University of Illinois Chicago 8 13 228 594 815
71 University of Notre Dame 6 15 179 773 836
72 St. John's University 7 13 201 699 786
73 Boston College 7 14 171 906 751
74 Pennsylvania State University 6 13 191 553 951
75 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 7 13 207 710 641
76 Nova Southeastern University 6 15 183 715 699
77 Wayne State University 7 14 164 874 654
78 University of Maryland 8 14 214 666 547
79 City University of New York (CUNY) 7 14 174 602 769
80 University of Arizona 7 11 147 495 981
81 Brigham Young University Law School 7 14 155 603 831
82 Syracuse University 7 11 187 509 732
83 University of Washington 7 13 185 647 614
84 Marquette University 6 14 149 741 712
85 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 6 16 141 795 693
86 University of Houston 6 17 132 873 653
87 Yeshiva University 6 13 139 882 601
88 Mercer University 6 15 185 700 509
89 University of Louisville 5 12 142 527 852
90 Santa Clara University 6 16 128 824 611
91 Hofstra University 5 15 148 760 542
92 Villanova University 6 10 169 594 578
93 University of Connecticut 8 12 159 430 750
94 Case Western Reserve University 7 14 132 756 576
95 DePaul University 6 14 113 723 650
96 Stetson University 7 14 171 570 476
97 Howard University 7 15 147 574 558
98 Indiana University Indianapolis 6 15 142 702 445
99 University of Iowa 6 11 145 397 695
100 Touro University 5 11 127 532 588