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Last Updated: January 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Harvard University 67 172 25,974 117,853 47,125
2 Yale University 66 171 24,668 119,090 46,625
3 New York University 51 122 17,144 70,424 37,210
4 Columbia University School of Law 56 109 14,965 47,125 33,231
5 University of Virginia 55 94 16,234 37,486 31,432
6 Georgetown University 46 94 14,200 42,545 30,855
7 University of Chicago 48 107 14,050 45,645 25,642
8 University of California, Los Angeles 43 92 10,928 34,820 21,272
9 University of California, Berkeley 38 91 9,794 37,710 23,726
10 George Washington University 38 83 8,577 28,674 22,724
11 Stanford University 43 93 9,057 32,175 16,715
12 University of Michigan 42 69 9,856 22,159 19,314
13 University of Pennsylvania 40 75 9,283 23,844 19,041
14 Northwestern University 36 81 7,774 29,376 16,463
15 University of Texas at Austin 33 75 7,056 25,008 13,316
16 Vanderbilt University 37 73 7,280 21,238 14,490
17 Duke University 35 72 6,816 21,469 14,098
18 Cornell University 30 62 4,971 15,546 12,831
19 Fordham University 30 53 5,247 13,421 11,573
20 University of Minnesota 30 52 4,387 11,900 12,967
21 University of Florida 28 50 4,480 12,350 10,806
22 Washington University 29 52 4,370 11,316 12,206
23 Rutgers University 27 55 3,821 13,319 11,040
24 Boston University 29 42 4,251 8,824 11,270
25 University of California, Davis 28 47 4,272 8,922 10,858
26 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 26 48 3,673 9,468 8,459
27 Emory University 22 49 3,087 10,033 10,347
28 University of Colorado Boulder 25 47 3,046 9,187 10,097
29 William & Mary Law School 26 44 3,561 8,114 7,690
30 University of Wisconsin-Madison 22 49 2,834 9,850 7,879
31 University of San Diego 22 58 2,772 11,968 5,878
32 Texas A&M University 23 36 3,214 5,734 9,446
33 Florida State University 23 42 2,981 7,398 8,720
34 University of Notre Dame 23 44 3,027 7,719 7,123
35 Ohio State University 22 48 2,870 8,590 6,875
36 George Mason University 19 50 2,452 10,192 6,467
37 Indiana University Bloomington 19 52 2,308 9,765 6,871
38 Yeshiva University 23 42 2,666 7,097 7,235
39 University of California, San Francisco 21 43 2,631 7,303 6,952
40 University of California, Irvine 25 41 2,625 5,064 8,480
41 Temple University 21 41 2,597 6,492 7,199
42 Arizona State University 20 39 2,147 7,090 7,162
43 Brooklyn Law School 24 36 2,744 5,461 5,149
44 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 16 46 1,665 7,861 5,613
45 Seattle University 17 39 1,571 9,024 4,706
46 University of Maryland 19 40 1,929 6,507 5,137
47 American University 17 34 1,645 5,986 6,901
48 University of Southern California 22 38 2,020 5,525 5,547
49 University of Arizona 19 42 1,707 5,827 5,827
50 University of Utah 19 36 1,846 4,375 6,076
51 Boston College 19 36 1,926 5,189 4,356
52 University of Miami 16 34 1,349 5,810 6,235
53 Southern Methodist University 19 31 1,853 3,595 5,610
54 University of Pittsburgh 16 40 1,547 6,255 4,433
55 Loyola Marymount University 19 35 1,748 4,767 4,645
56 University of Houston 14 41 1,263 7,110 4,566
57 Wake Forest University 18 43 1,514 5,912 4,444
58 Brigham Young University Law School 20 34 1,799 4,387 4,524
59 Pennsylvania State University 18 30 1,719 4,161 5,115
60 University of St. Thomas 17 41 1,435 6,475 4,065
61 University of Georgia 19 33 1,739 4,278 3,995
62 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 18 34 1,540 5,183 3,635
63 University of Denver 19 30 1,699 3,819 4,095
64 University of Richmond 17 33 1,490 4,523 4,169
65 Pepperdine University 17 34 1,517 4,915 3,529
66 Loyola University Chicago 18 29 1,513 3,404 4,979
67 University of Iowa 16 31 1,438 3,462 5,115
68 University of Washington 17 28 1,449 3,115 4,817
69 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 14 35 1,165 5,115 3,922
70 Northeastern University 15 28 1,062 4,183 4,596
71 Case Western Reserve University 15 34 1,094 4,179 4,309
72 Wayne State University 15 39 990 5,557 3,387
73 University of Baltimore 14 27 1,159 3,562 4,331
74 Lewis & Clark Law School 15 31 1,253 4,183 3,294
75 University at Buffalo 16 28 1,179 4,070 3,689
76 Michigan State University 17 31 1,352 3,101 3,493
77 University of Alabama 15 34 1,201 3,701 3,261
78 University of Kansas 15 31 1,139 3,852 3,326
79 University of South Carolina 17 23 1,382 2,003 3,688
80 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 15 28 980 3,933 3,096
81 University of Connecticut 19 24 1,168 2,241 3,708
82 Seton Hall University 14 30 1,144 3,267 2,720
83 University of Cincinnati 13 36 932 4,407 2,592
84 Indiana University Indianapolis 12 28 995 3,574 2,954
85 University of Missouri 16 31 1,116 3,142 2,517
86 Hofstra University 13 34 977 4,010 2,304
87 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 14 30 1,046 2,986 2,916
88 Albany Law School 11 26 909 2,913 3,530
89 Catholic University of America 17 26 1,145 2,741 2,524
90 DePaul University 12 37 682 4,213 3,296
91 New York Law School 14 29 762 3,300 3,608
92 Georgia State University 14 25 1,001 2,523 3,153
93 Santa Clara University 15 33 888 3,607 2,360
94 Pace University 12 26 795 2,745 3,603
95 Willamette University College of Law 15 31 973 2,650 2,575
96 St. John's University 12 22 1,122 1,815 2,644
97 South Texas College of Law Houston 13 23 961 2,055 2,914
98 Washington and Lee University 15 22 956 2,168 2,765
99 University of Oklahoma 15 19 988 1,558 2,794
100 Suffolk University 10 27 712 2,550 3,064