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Last Updated: March 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Harvard University 61 177 22,374 122,626 45,722
2 Yale University 63 176 21,196 124,808 45,247
3 New York University 46 124 14,699 73,666 35,488
4 Columbia University School of Law 50 112 12,916 49,504 32,287
5 University of Virginia 52 97 14,274 40,321 30,512
6 Georgetown University 44 95 12,424 44,644 29,613
7 University of Chicago 46 110 12,225 48,270 24,315
8 University of California, Los Angeles 41 94 9,405 37,130 20,336
9 University of California, Berkeley 34 93 8,483 39,328 23,040
10 Stanford University 40 93 7,906 33,670 16,386
11 George Washington University 34 85 7,216 29,879 21,464
12 University of Michigan 38 71 8,627 23,097 18,174
13 University of Pennsylvania 36 78 8,192 25,310 18,190
14 Northwestern University 32 83 6,680 30,606 15,731
15 University of Texas at Austin 31 76 6,135 26,061 12,704
16 Vanderbilt University 31 75 6,172 22,520 14,040
17 Duke University 30 73 5,712 22,579 13,325
18 Cornell University 27 63 4,366 16,332 12,344
19 Fordham University 26 56 4,548 14,352 11,361
20 University of Minnesota 27 55 4,017 12,744 12,384
21 Washington University 28 53 4,011 12,044 11,790
22 University of Florida 24 52 3,938 13,179 10,074
23 Rutgers University 24 55 3,263 14,012 10,424
24 Boston University 26 43 3,770 9,597 10,840
25 University of California, Davis 25 49 3,592 9,662 10,146
26 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 24 48 3,275 10,053 8,061
27 Emory University 20 50 2,670 10,372 9,923
28 University of Colorado Boulder 22 49 2,699 9,619 10,025
29 William & Mary Law School 22 46 2,982 8,714 7,249
30 University of Wisconsin-Madison 21 51 2,555 10,295 7,706
31 Texas A&M University 21 37 2,899 6,160 9,069
32 University of San Diego 21 59 2,382 12,530 5,839
33 Florida State University 20 43 2,621 7,942 8,489
34 University of Notre Dame 21 44 2,660 8,163 6,984
35 Ohio State University 21 48 2,465 9,060 6,580
36 George Mason University 16 50 2,004 10,531 6,177
37 Yeshiva University 21 45 2,301 7,567 7,167
38 Indiana University Bloomington 17 52 1,965 10,007 6,419
39 University of California, Irvine 23 40 2,315 5,474 8,386
40 Temple University 20 42 2,309 6,830 6,915
41 University of California, San Francisco 18 43 2,221 7,715 6,370
42 Arizona State University 18 41 1,861 7,757 6,901
43 Brooklyn Law School 23 37 2,401 5,731 4,825
44 American University 15 36 1,411 6,861 6,876
45 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 14 46 1,413 8,285 5,494
46 Seattle University 16 41 1,341 9,306 4,578
47 University of Maryland 17 41 1,667 6,822 4,928
48 University of Southern California 20 40 1,751 5,886 5,291
49 University of Arizona 18 42 1,445 6,097 5,636
50 University of Utah 18 36 1,603 4,711 6,042
51 Boston College 18 37 1,706 5,471 4,090
52 University of Pittsburgh 16 41 1,367 6,554 4,348
53 Southern Methodist University 17 33 1,621 3,860 5,422
54 University of Miami 16 35 1,136 6,410 5,667
55 University of Houston 13 41 1,093 7,310 4,422
56 Loyola Marymount University 17 37 1,470 5,045 4,445
57 Brigham Young University Law School 19 36 1,572 4,576 4,270
58 University of St. Thomas 17 42 1,242 6,627 3,998
59 Wake Forest University 16 44 1,277 6,189 4,196
60 Pennsylvania State University 16 31 1,434 4,553 4,845
61 University of Georgia 17 34 1,536 4,599 3,987
62 University of Iowa 15 32 1,317 3,854 5,110
63 Loyola University Chicago 17 30 1,344 3,634 4,958
64 University of Denver 17 31 1,448 4,134 3,851
65 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 16 35 1,301 5,202 3,575
66 University of Richmond 16 35 1,282 4,768 4,022
67 University of Washington 17 29 1,264 3,397 4,906
68 Pepperdine University 16 36 1,213 5,135 3,152
69 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 13 36 979 5,269 3,630
70 Northeastern University 14 28 931 4,337 4,424
71 Wayne State University 12 39 866 5,959 3,256
72 University of Baltimore 13 28 1,008 3,745 4,184
73 University at Buffalo 16 29 1,057 4,245 3,457
74 Case Western Reserve University 13 34 912 4,365 3,976
75 Lewis & Clark Law School 13 32 1,041 4,419 3,181
76 Michigan State University 16 32 1,206 3,275 3,307
77 University of Kansas 14 32 988 4,206 3,235
78 University of Alabama 13 34 1,031 3,873 3,071
79 University of South Carolina 15 26 1,183 2,264 3,454
80 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 14 28 894 4,109 2,956
81 University of Connecticut 18 24 1,048 2,510 3,472
82 Seton Hall University 13 32 994 3,480 2,726
83 University of Cincinnati 11 36 795 4,530 2,474
84 Indiana University Indianapolis 11 28 847 3,746 2,891
85 Catholic University of America 15 27 1,023 2,906 2,497
86 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 14 30 922 3,182 2,762
87 Hofstra University 11 34 811 4,216 2,280
88 University of Missouri 15 31 955 3,259 2,363
89 Albany Law School 10 26 822 2,991 3,250
90 DePaul University 11 38 578 4,463 3,126
91 Georgia State University 13 26 851 2,709 3,224
92 New York Law School 13 29 664 3,404 3,435
93 Santa Clara University 13 33 779 3,753 2,138
94 St. John's University 11 23 978 1,994 2,574
95 Willamette University College of Law 14 32 821 2,879 2,430
96 South Texas College of Law Houston 13 24 863 2,171 2,839
97 Washington and Lee University 14 23 836 2,318 2,772
98 Pace University 11 25 638 2,612 3,291
99 University of Oklahoma 15 20 898 1,686 2,644
100 Suffolk University 8 28 601 2,714 3,047