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Last Updated: March 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 New York University 13 27 703 2,779 1,400
2 University of California, Berkeley 12 21 531 2,165 1,207
3 Georgetown University 11 19 471 1,481 1,573
4 University of Michigan 12 18 544 1,415 1,075
5 Stanford University 13 17 503 1,487 957
6 Harvard University 9 17 315 1,655 1,256
7 Yale University 10 20 319 1,311 901
8 University of Florida 9 23 277 1,479 509
9 Vanderbilt University 10 15 293 1,003 662
10 University of Pennsylvania 8 19 179 1,117 795
11 Rutgers University 11 12 321 596 486
12 University of California, San Francisco 8 9 292 338 719
13 University of Virginia 7 11 222 663 628
14 Loyola University Chicago 7 13 189 557 870
15 Duke University 8 14 180 741 733
16 University of Minnesota 6 8 122 552 1,113
17 Arizona State University 6 11 193 709 551
18 University of California, Los Angeles 7 17 155 859 593
19 Washington University 9 15 218 602 485
20 Ohio State University 8 10 231 306 578
21 Columbia University School of Law 7 13 125 903 349
22 University of Chicago 8 12 158 573 439
23 Boston University 6 13 128 513 652
24 University of Denver 7 12 184 529 317
25 George Washington University 6 14 139 607 372
26 Emory University 6 11 117 408 606
27 Fordham University 6 14 101 618 457
28 Northeastern University 5 12 106 597 387
29 University of Maryland 7 7 165 310 318
30 Texas A&M University 6 13 126 418 405
31 Northwestern University 6 12 96 560 428
32 American University 7 11 123 329 488
33 University of Missouri 8 10 159 280 292
34 University of California, Davis 6 11 96 507 378
35 University of Kentucky 6 12 113 459 272
36 Florida State University 6 10 101 349 372
37 University of California, Irvine 7 4 113 62 557
38 Cornell University 6 9 95 518 225
39 Indiana University Bloomington 5 10 108 393 268
40 Georgia State University 8 6 139 126 326
41 Wake Forest University 5 8 89 416 306
42 Temple University 5 8 94 215 379
43 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 6 9 80 316 335
44 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 5 7 87 145 438
45 University of Houston 5 10 76 388 271
46 Pennsylvania State University 6 8 96 148 365
47 William & Mary Law School 6 9 97 250 182
48 Wayne State University 6 5 88 181 259
49 University of San Diego 5 8 70 314 208
50 Pace University 5 10 78 254 218
51 Saint Louis University 4 3 56 45 514
52 University of Utah 6 3 68 20 449
53 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 7 69 173 306
54 Brooklyn Law School 4 11 47 466 112
55 University of Wisconsin-Madison 5 9 55 224 266
56 Yeshiva University 5 4 53 101 381
57 Indiana University Indianapolis 4 7 52 110 353
58 Seattle University 5 9 49 241 238
59 Villanova University 4 6 69 124 234
60 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 4 7 55 197 240
61 George Mason University 3 11 43 303 186
62 Loyola Marymount University 4 6 59 221 166
63 University of Iowa 5 7 63 181 162
64 Syracuse University 5 5 55 133 236
65 University of Oklahoma 4 5 63 57 260
66 Drake University 4 7 41 114 323
67 University of Colorado Boulder 5 5 57 73 259
68 University of Georgia 4 5 60 94 199
69 University of Texas at Austin 3 8 31 235 220
70 Louisiana State University 4 7 46 193 172
71 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 4 5 64 64 185
72 University of Missouri-Kansas City 4 9 43 221 151
73 Drexel University 2 5 41 144 234
74 University of South Carolina 3 5 31 77 335
75 Southern Methodist University 4 6 63 94 138
76 University of Pittsburgh 3 3 54 51 217
77 University of Richmond 4 4 42 63 252
78 Santa Clara University 4 5 37 213 135
79 University of Miami 3 5 55 132 108
80 St. John's University 5 6 51 63 188
81 DePaul University 3 7 19 134 291
82 Case Western Reserve University 3 9 27 236 138
83 University of Washington 4 6 51 106 128
84 Brigham Young University Law School 3 6 41 171 116
85 Northern Kentucky University 4 10 41 163 116
86 Suffolk University 2 5 21 173 183
87 Southwestern Law School 4 6 31 118 169
88 Pepperdine University 3 10 29 223 83
89 City University of New York (CUNY) 3 5 32 163 110
90 New York Law School 3 5 30 192 94
91 Howard University 1 3 4 115 302
92 Michigan State University 3 8 23 179 128
93 University of St. Thomas 3 5 32 102 138
94 University of Southern California 3 5 25 101 171
95 University of Arizona 2 5 26 139 126
96 University of Louisville 2 5 20 136 155
97 University of Alabama 4 2 47 19 114
98 University of Kansas 3 6 35 111 88
99 Samford University 4 6 29 99 127
100 Widener University Commonwealth Law School 4 5 23 81 168