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Last Updated: May 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 New York University 14 27 736 2,781 1,347
2 University of California, Berkeley 12 21 551 2,168 1,216
3 University of Michigan 12 18 567 1,415 1,045
4 Stanford University 13 17 526 1,487 919
5 Georgetown University 10 18 457 1,176 1,418
6 Harvard University 10 17 360 1,663 1,123
7 Yale University 10 20 330 1,286 851
8 University of Florida 9 23 280 1,479 506
9 University of Pennsylvania 9 19 205 1,176 1,036
10 Vanderbilt University 11 16 305 1,024 617
11 Rutgers University 11 12 329 596 499
12 University of California, San Francisco 8 9 303 338 698
13 University of Virginia 7 11 239 666 597
14 Loyola University Chicago 7 13 194 558 847
15 Duke University 8 13 193 688 721
16 Arizona State University 6 11 204 711 598
17 Washington University 9 15 239 602 510
18 University of Minnesota 6 8 126 552 1,032
19 University of California, Los Angeles 7 17 161 859 570
20 Ohio State University 9 10 250 321 545
21 Columbia University School of Law 7 13 128 903 389
22 Boston University 6 13 135 515 654
23 University of Denver 7 12 190 541 314
24 University of Chicago 8 12 164 573 389
25 George Washington University 7 14 145 607 350
26 Emory University 6 11 118 405 582
27 Fordham University 7 14 109 618 372
28 University of Maryland 7 7 171 303 303
29 Northwestern University 6 12 99 560 426
30 Texas A&M University 6 13 136 418 361
31 Northeastern University 5 11 110 575 344
32 University of California, Davis 6 11 106 507 415
33 University of Missouri 8 10 165 280 294
34 American University 6 11 126 319 453
35 University of Kentucky 6 12 116 459 246
36 Indiana University Bloomington 5 10 112 386 282
37 Cornell University 6 9 98 518 232
38 University of California, Irvine 7 4 115 63 520
39 Wake Forest University 6 8 99 398 303
40 Temple University 5 8 103 215 372
41 Georgia State University 8 6 139 126 259
42 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 6 9 81 309 366
43 Florida State University 5 9 91 333 267
44 University of Houston 5 10 80 391 256
45 Pennsylvania State University 6 8 101 149 347
46 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 5 7 93 145 373
47 Brooklyn Law School 5 11 79 475 114
48 Wayne State University 6 5 89 181 280
49 Saint Louis University 5 3 59 45 535
50 William & Mary Law School 6 9 99 250 146
51 Pace University 5 10 83 251 203
52 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 7 73 173 318
53 University of San Diego 5 8 72 314 189
54 University of Utah 6 3 75 20 408
55 University of Wisconsin-Madison 5 9 55 224 272
56 Yeshiva University 5 4 57 101 372
57 Seattle University 5 9 54 241 252
58 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 4 7 60 197 242
59 George Mason University 3 11 44 303 188
60 Indiana University Indianapolis 4 7 54 110 293
61 University of Iowa 5 7 65 181 167
62 Loyola Marymount University 4 6 59 221 155
63 University of Oklahoma 4 5 64 57 269
64 University of Georgia 4 5 64 94 216
65 University of Colorado Boulder 5 5 63 73 232
66 Louisiana State University 4 7 52 193 181
67 Syracuse University 5 5 55 133 211
68 Villanova University 4 6 63 91 204
69 University of South Carolina 3 5 33 77 353
70 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 5 5 68 64 183
71 Drake University 4 7 42 114 264
72 University of Missouri-Kansas City 4 9 43 221 149
73 University of Texas at Austin 4 8 33 235 184
74 Drexel University 2 5 46 144 196
75 Southern Methodist University 5 6 65 95 135
76 University of Pittsburgh 3 3 59 51 205
77 Case Western Reserve University 3 9 30 235 149
78 Santa Clara University 4 5 39 213 122
79 St. John's University 5 6 53 63 166
80 Brigham Young University Law School 3 6 44 171 108
81 Howard University 2 4 13 176 259
82 University of Richmond 4 4 42 63 203
83 New York Law School 3 5 30 192 149
84 University of Washington 4 6 52 106 105
85 DePaul University 3 7 24 121 230
86 Northern Kentucky University 5 10 44 163 85
87 Southwestern Law School 4 6 34 118 171
88 University of Miami 3 4 49 113 92
89 Pepperdine University 3 10 30 223 82
90 Suffolk University 2 5 22 173 161
91 Seton Hall University 4 6 32 97 170
92 Michigan State University 3 8 25 179 127
93 University of Alabama 4 2 49 19 128
94 University of Southern California 3 5 27 101 160
95 California Western School of Law 4 5 43 79 97
96 University of St. Thomas 3 5 32 102 131
97 University of Louisville 3 5 23 136 138
98 University of Arizona 2 4 26 133 124
99 University of Kansas 3 6 35 111 84
100 Marquette University 2 7 17 187 96