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Last Updated: April 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 New York University 13 27 704 2,809 1,334
2 University of California, Berkeley 12 21 540 2,166 1,188
3 University of Michigan 12 18 556 1,419 1,025
4 Stanford University 13 17 517 1,487 931
5 Georgetown University 10 18 448 1,182 1,402
6 Harvard University 9 17 326 1,655 1,173
7 Yale University 10 20 331 1,311 865
8 University of Florida 9 23 278 1,479 485
9 University of Pennsylvania 9 19 202 1,175 1,048
10 Vanderbilt University 11 15 298 1,003 639
11 Rutgers University 11 12 326 596 500
12 University of California, San Francisco 8 9 295 338 703
13 University of Virginia 7 11 230 665 603
14 Duke University 8 14 187 730 716
15 Loyola University Chicago 7 13 193 558 838
16 University of Minnesota 6 8 131 564 1,048
17 Washington University 9 15 230 602 504
18 Arizona State University 6 11 198 709 546
19 University of California, Los Angeles 7 17 156 859 566
20 Ohio State University 9 10 241 321 578
21 Columbia University School of Law 7 13 125 903 364
22 Boston University 6 13 133 515 635
23 University of Chicago 8 12 163 573 415
24 University of Denver 7 12 187 529 302
25 George Washington University 6 14 142 609 361
26 Fordham University 7 14 108 615 438
27 Emory University 6 11 116 413 572
28 Northeastern University 5 12 112 597 386
29 University of Maryland 7 7 165 303 309
30 Texas A&M University 6 13 132 418 372
31 Northwestern University 6 12 97 557 411
32 University of California, Davis 6 11 105 507 409
33 American University 7 11 125 334 455
34 University of Missouri 8 10 161 280 296
35 University of Kentucky 6 12 115 459 260
36 Indiana University Bloomington 5 10 111 393 284
37 Cornell University 6 9 96 518 234
38 University of California, Irvine 7 4 115 62 527
39 Georgia State University 8 6 140 127 329
40 Florida State University 5 10 99 342 324
41 Wake Forest University 5 8 91 418 290
42 Temple University 5 8 100 215 365
43 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 6 9 81 316 365
44 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 5 7 90 145 408
45 University of Houston 5 10 76 390 250
46 Pennsylvania State University 6 8 96 148 327
47 William & Mary Law School 6 9 98 250 160
48 Wayne State University 6 5 88 181 272
49 Saint Louis University 5 3 56 45 533
50 Pace University 5 10 81 254 211
51 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 7 71 173 311
52 University of San Diego 5 8 68 309 186
53 University of Utah 6 3 70 20 425
54 Brooklyn Law School 4 11 51 466 108
55 University of Pittsburgh 4 4 66 176 261
56 Yeshiva University 5 4 55 100 374
57 University of Wisconsin-Madison 5 9 55 224 250
58 Seattle University 5 9 50 241 244
59 Villanova University 4 7 69 131 221
60 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 4 7 58 197 216
61 Indiana University Indianapolis 4 7 53 110 311
62 George Mason University 3 11 43 303 185
63 University of Iowa 5 7 65 181 163
64 Loyola Marymount University 4 6 59 221 156
65 University of Texas at Austin 4 9 36 294 204
66 University of Oklahoma 4 5 63 57 262
67 University of Colorado Boulder 5 5 62 73 244
68 Louisiana State University 4 7 52 193 182
69 Syracuse University 5 5 55 133 219
70 University of Georgia 4 5 63 94 206
71 Drake University 4 7 41 114 293
72 Suffolk University 3 6 25 327 175
73 University of South Carolina 3 5 32 77 341
74 Drexel University 2 5 45 144 210
75 University of Missouri-Kansas City 4 9 43 221 143
76 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 4 5 64 64 170
77 Southern Methodist University 4 6 63 94 139
78 Santa Clara University 4 5 38 213 126
79 University of Richmond 4 4 42 63 233
80 Case Western Reserve University 3 9 29 236 143
81 St. John's University 5 6 51 63 179
82 DePaul University 3 7 19 124 268
83 University of Washington 4 6 51 106 105
84 Brigham Young University Law School 3 6 41 171 96
85 Northern Kentucky University 4 10 41 163 100
86 Southwestern Law School 4 6 32 118 175
87 University of Miami 3 4 49 113 93
88 Pepperdine University 3 10 30 223 86
89 New York Law School 3 5 30 192 91
90 City University of New York (CUNY) 3 5 33 163 98
91 Michigan State University 3 8 24 179 121
92 University of St. Thomas 3 5 32 102 136
93 University of Alabama 4 2 49 19 123
94 University of Southern California 3 5 27 101 161
95 Howard University 1 3 4 115 264
96 University of Arizona 2 5 27 139 119
97 University of Louisville 3 5 22 136 144
98 University of Kansas 3 6 35 111 89
99 California Western School of Law 4 5 40 79 87
100 Samford University 4 6 29 99 118