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Last Updated: April 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Harvard University 15 28 1,259 2,783 2,869
2 Yale University 15 32 651 4,140 1,963
3 University of Chicago 12 15 370 2,734 562
4 Fordham University 8 14 412 498 695
5 University of Florida 8 14 310 835 858
6 Northwestern University 9 12 382 608 476
7 Boston University 6 13 244 987 585
8 Yeshiva University 7 14 164 838 775
9 University of San Diego 8 18 183 989 539
10 University of California, Berkeley 9 9 166 876 707
11 University of California, Davis 10 14 219 536 659
12 Columbia University School of Law 8 11 247 777 290
13 Rutgers University 8 8 202 243 736
14 University of California, Los Angeles 5 10 80 560 822
15 University of Minnesota 7 14 135 679 371
16 Georgetown University 8 9 181 359 407
17 University of Oregon 6 11 127 474 499
18 Vanderbilt University 6 8 138 564 302
19 University of Virginia 6 12 119 474 399
20 University of South Carolina 7 11 141 382 240
21 New York University 6 11 113 447 320
22 University of Colorado Boulder 4 7 131 302 312
23 University of California, San Francisco 4 7 87 513 339
24 University of Notre Dame 6 8 118 319 259
25 Duke University 5 10 80 455 318
26 University of Pennsylvania 5 8 96 249 371
27 Loyola University Chicago 3 7 27 118 763
28 George Mason University 6 9 65 496 174
29 Southern Methodist University 4 7 82 237 319
30 Pace University 4 6 66 117 506
31 Cornell University 4 11 61 437 238
32 Boston College 4 8 100 217 211
33 University of Michigan 5 6 109 151 174
34 George Washington University 3 5 63 93 455
35 Pepperdine University 5 10 67 416 131
36 Florida State University 5 11 73 396 106
37 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 6 5 106 107 181
38 Wake Forest University 4 3 66 113 361
39 Texas Tech University 3 12 35 417 241
40 Albany Law School 5 10 58 299 165
41 Arizona State University 6 7 81 132 190
42 University of Iowa 3 8 47 173 326
43 New York Law School 3 4 36 309 239
44 Seattle University 3 9 45 378 130
45 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 4 3 63 225 157
46 University of Wisconsin-Madison 3 5 31 428 129
47 Indiana University Bloomington 5 7 54 170 234
48 Drake University 4 4 51 73 335
49 Santa Clara University 4 7 50 268 122
50 Tulane University 4 7 53 172 183
51 University of Southern California 4 5 54 273 70
52 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 5 7 58 145 154
53 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 4 7 42 138 221
54 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 3 8 29 291 143
55 Stanford University 4 5 69 108 98
56 Temple University 4 6 25 281 166
57 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 3 8 20 339 130
58 University of Kentucky 3 7 36 112 246
59 Washington University 3 5 56 167 90
60 University of Missouri 3 6 43 153 137
61 Case Western Reserve University 4 5 40 125 170
62 University of Georgia 2 3 41 19 261
63 American University 3 6 39 145 156
64 University of Missouri-Kansas City 2 3 11 27 403
65 University of Denver 4 5 50 103 123
66 University of Richmond 4 4 48 55 176
67 Drexel University 4 6 61 65 91
68 University of St. Thomas 4 6 38 167 111
69 University of Texas at Austin 3 7 26 288 60
70 Hofstra University 4 8 45 161 70
71 Loyola Marymount University 3 5 46 94 120
72 Mercer University 4 7 39 114 133
73 Georgia State University 2 7 27 202 113
74 University of Alabama 5 5 39 74 152
75 University of Memphis 2 6 21 266 71
76 University of Washington 4 7 33 170 89
77 University of California, Irvine 4 3 44 71 122
78 University of Pittsburgh 3 7 17 170 147
79 Emory University 3 6 28 142 112
80 University of Utah 3 10 17 251 69
81 City University of New York (CUNY) 3 4 29 131 114
82 Brigham Young University Law School 3 4 50 59 56
83 University of South Dakota 3 7 29 142 84
84 University of Houston 3 7 20 221 43
85 Samford University 2 4 30 87 113
86 William & Mary Law School 3 5 31 89 86
87 Seton Hall University 2 4 27 128 72
88 Washington and Lee University 3 6 31 120 52
89 Brooklyn Law School 3 4 25 62 114
90 University of Baltimore 2 7 27 130 42
91 Ohio State University 3 2 25 22 146
92 Quinnipiac University 3 5 25 104 72
93 Marquette University 3 5 23 150 39
94 Louisiana State University 2 5 13 67 146
95 University of Idaho 2 6 23 57 100
96 St. John's University 2 5 25 52 94
97 Lewis & Clark Law School 2 5 26 64 78
98 University of Oklahoma 3 5 25 50 86
99 University of Arizona 2 2 11 22 168
100 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 4 5 19 53 89