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Last Updated: April 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 65 175 21,729 124,843 43,931
2 Harvard University 61 172 22,693 114,908 43,557
3 New York University 48 124 15,302 73,883 34,796
4 Columbia University School of Law 51 112 13,171 49,471 31,466
5 University of Virginia 53 97 14,515 40,199 29,547
6 University of Chicago 46 109 12,397 47,878 23,579
7 Georgetown University 43 92 11,670 39,273 26,554
8 University of California, Los Angeles 42 94 9,640 36,964 19,704
9 University of California, Berkeley 34 93 8,653 39,359 22,268
10 Stanford University 40 94 8,078 33,625 15,769
11 George Washington University 35 84 7,313 29,677 20,403
12 University of Michigan 38 71 8,861 23,235 17,464
13 University of Pennsylvania 37 78 8,398 25,372 17,413
14 Northwestern University 33 83 6,807 30,594 15,109
15 University of Texas at Austin 31 76 6,299 26,101 12,215
16 Vanderbilt University 32 75 6,311 22,498 13,371
17 Duke University 31 73 5,909 22,600 13,125
18 Cornell University 28 63 4,474 16,280 11,843
19 Fordham University 27 57 4,721 14,444 10,955
20 University of Minnesota 27 55 3,986 12,803 11,895
21 Washington University 28 53 4,092 12,024 11,283
22 University of Florida 25 52 4,029 13,123 9,555
23 Rutgers University 25 57 3,392 14,429 10,205
24 Boston University 26 42 3,879 9,494 10,484
25 University of California, Davis 26 49 3,645 9,639 9,870
26 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 24 48 3,326 10,046 7,786
27 Emory University 21 49 2,734 10,387 9,579
28 University of Colorado Boulder 23 49 2,758 9,671 9,623
29 William & Mary Law School 23 46 3,085 8,710 7,202
30 University of Wisconsin-Madison 21 51 2,584 10,271 7,424
31 Texas A&M University 22 38 3,001 6,204 8,646
32 University of San Diego 21 59 2,423 12,517 5,583
33 Florida State University 21 43 2,687 7,950 8,129
34 University of Notre Dame 21 44 2,722 8,185 6,743
35 Ohio State University 22 48 2,480 9,204 6,548
36 George Mason University 17 50 2,036 10,528 5,940
37 Yeshiva University 21 45 2,343 7,552 6,910
38 Indiana University Bloomington 17 53 2,017 10,129 6,269
39 University of California, Irvine 23 40 2,360 5,463 8,173
40 Temple University 20 42 2,367 6,817 6,635
41 University of California, San Francisco 19 43 2,274 7,736 6,156
42 Arizona State University 18 41 1,908 7,761 6,809
43 Brooklyn Law School 23 37 2,443 5,723 4,656
44 American University 16 36 1,436 6,808 6,583
45 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 14 46 1,442 8,264 5,161
46 Seattle University 16 41 1,372 9,304 4,274
47 University of Maryland 17 41 1,690 6,808 4,842
48 University of Southern California 20 40 1,786 5,884 5,059
49 University of Arizona 18 42 1,494 6,076 5,591
50 University of Utah 18 36 1,631 4,708 5,834
51 Boston College 18 37 1,714 5,394 3,793
52 Southern Methodist University 17 33 1,677 3,898 5,241
53 University of Miami 16 35 1,160 6,444 5,374
54 University of Pittsburgh 16 41 1,378 6,556 4,157
55 Loyola Marymount University 17 37 1,547 5,055 4,384
56 Brigham Young University Law School 19 36 1,604 4,557 4,211
57 University of Houston 13 41 1,099 7,294 4,195
58 Wake Forest University 17 44 1,326 6,188 3,957
59 University of St. Thomas 17 41 1,249 6,537 3,961
60 Pennsylvania State University 16 30 1,465 4,495 4,562
61 University of Georgia 17 34 1,567 4,565 3,920
62 University of Iowa 15 32 1,355 3,821 5,044
63 Loyola University Chicago 18 30 1,380 3,623 4,857
64 University of Richmond 16 35 1,320 4,776 3,993
65 University of Denver 17 31 1,484 4,110 3,657
66 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 16 35 1,308 5,179 3,434
67 Pepperdine University 16 36 1,340 5,165 3,232
68 University of Washington 17 29 1,288 3,392 4,763
69 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 13 36 1,027 5,327 3,534
70 Northeastern University 14 28 945 4,352 4,213
71 Wayne State University 12 39 869 5,743 3,073
72 University of Baltimore 13 28 1,027 3,747 4,011
73 University at Buffalo 16 29 1,071 4,240 3,272
74 Michigan State University 16 32 1,242 3,295 3,189
75 Lewis & Clark Law School 13 32 1,058 4,418 3,112
76 Case Western Reserve University 13 34 922 4,356 3,767
77 University of Kansas 14 32 1,007 4,196 3,133
78 University of Alabama 14 34 1,052 3,857 2,933
79 University of South Carolina 15 26 1,227 2,265 3,390
80 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 14 28 903 4,084 2,857
81 Seton Hall University 13 32 1,011 3,453 2,613
82 University of Connecticut 18 24 1,066 2,394 3,244
83 University of Cincinnati 11 36 818 4,530 2,414
84 Catholic University of America 15 27 1,061 2,916 2,459
85 Indiana University Indianapolis 11 28 861 3,751 2,714
86 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 14 30 938 3,231 2,556
87 University of Missouri 15 29 980 3,164 2,358
88 Hofstra University 11 34 825 4,212 2,190
89 Albany Law School 10 26 835 2,979 3,098
90 Georgia State University 13 26 860 2,717 3,175
91 New York Law School 13 29 681 3,423 3,305
92 DePaul University 11 38 578 4,400 2,901
93 Santa Clara University 13 33 795 3,758 2,086
94 St. John's University 11 23 997 1,994 2,558
95 Willamette University College of Law 15 32 869 2,879 2,296
96 South Texas College of Law Houston 13 24 882 2,177 2,664
97 Washington and Lee University 15 23 838 2,318 2,649
98 Pace University 11 25 659 2,610 3,187
99 University of Oklahoma 15 20 909 1,686 2,504
100 Suffolk University 8 28 617 2,713 2,885