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Last Updated: November 2025

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Harvard University 67 172 25,393 117,724 48,993
2 Yale University 65 171 24,210 118,957 48,178
3 New York University 50 122 16,739 70,428 38,478
4 Columbia University School of Law 55 109 14,611 46,944 33,993
5 University of Virginia 55 94 15,848 37,489 32,441
6 Georgetown University 45 94 13,881 42,520 31,759
7 University of Chicago 48 107 13,851 45,997 26,568
8 University of California, Berkeley 38 91 9,740 37,881 24,868
9 University of California, Los Angeles 43 92 10,441 34,649 21,290
10 Stanford University 42 93 8,895 32,161 17,108
11 University of Michigan 42 69 9,606 21,853 19,966
12 University of Pennsylvania 40 75 9,081 23,579 19,961
13 George Washington University 37 83 7,637 27,861 21,367
14 Northwestern University 36 81 7,791 29,370 17,778
15 University of Texas at Austin 31 75 6,287 24,847 13,177
16 Duke University 34 71 6,641 21,335 14,598
17 Vanderbilt University 36 73 6,692 20,943 14,415
18 Cornell University 29 62 4,926 15,755 13,141
19 Fordham University 29 53 5,021 13,421 12,048
20 University of Minnesota 30 52 4,301 11,886 13,269
21 University of Florida 28 50 4,381 12,354 11,144
22 Washington University 28 50 4,278 11,067 12,645
23 Rutgers University 27 55 3,734 13,263 11,300
24 Boston University 29 42 4,195 9,060 11,742
25 University of California, Davis 28 47 4,167 8,952 11,254
26 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 26 48 3,750 9,710 9,541
27 William & Mary Law School 26 44 3,910 8,360 8,513
28 Emory University 23 49 3,053 9,972 10,759
29 University of Colorado Boulder 25 47 2,966 9,193 10,324
30 University of Wisconsin-Madison 22 49 2,766 9,836 8,086
31 University of San Diego 22 58 2,731 11,969 5,915
32 Texas A&M University 24 36 3,167 5,737 9,818
33 Florida State University 23 42 2,921 7,380 9,051
34 Ohio State University 22 48 2,822 8,651 7,256
35 University of Notre Dame 23 44 2,945 7,681 7,548
36 Indiana University Bloomington 19 52 2,275 9,683 7,122
37 Yeshiva University 23 42 2,601 7,109 7,671
38 Temple University 21 41 2,617 6,473 7,771
39 University of California, San Francisco 21 42 2,529 7,237 7,049
40 University of California, Irvine 25 40 2,556 4,979 8,440
41 George Mason University 18 47 2,190 8,846 6,042
42 American University 20 37 2,121 6,874 8,210
43 Arizona State University 20 40 2,142 7,270 7,531
44 Brooklyn Law School 24 36 2,676 5,425 5,230
45 Brigham Young University 25 34 2,550 4,615 5,677
46 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 15 46 1,638 7,872 5,885
47 Seattle University 17 39 1,543 9,024 5,002
48 University of Maryland 18 40 1,907 6,490 5,487
49 University of Southern California 21 38 1,975 5,516 5,694
50 University of Arizona 19 42 1,672 5,825 5,937
51 University of Utah 19 36 1,815 4,389 6,153
52 University of Miami 16 34 1,313 5,804 6,740
53 Boston College 19 36 1,874 5,188 4,509
54 Southern Methodist University 19 31 1,842 3,615 5,950
55 University of Pittsburgh 17 40 1,540 6,290 4,730
56 Loyola Marymount University 18 36 1,685 4,799 5,035
57 Pennsylvania State University 18 30 1,716 4,196 5,371
58 Wake Forest University 18 44 1,489 6,019 4,644
59 University of Houston 13 41 1,237 7,101 4,792
60 University of St. Thomas 17 41 1,410 6,426 4,193
61 University of Georgia 18 33 1,716 4,295 4,110
62 University of Richmond 17 33 1,480 4,681 4,540
63 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 18 34 1,515 5,187 3,705
64 University of Denver 18 30 1,670 3,812 4,260
65 Loyola University Chicago 18 29 1,484 3,401 5,179
66 University of Iowa 16 31 1,437 3,554 5,230
67 Pepperdine University 16 34 1,410 4,913 3,383
68 University of Washington 17 28 1,421 3,121 4,930
69 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 14 35 1,140 5,136 4,055
70 Northeastern University 15 28 1,060 4,189 4,795
71 Case Western Reserve University 15 34 1,070 4,149 4,461
72 Wayne State University 14 39 974 5,554 3,545
73 University at Buffalo 16 28 1,165 4,077 3,942
74 University of Baltimore 14 27 1,139 3,587 4,430
75 Lewis & Clark Law School 15 31 1,200 4,151 3,399
76 University of Kansas 16 32 1,171 4,090 3,415
77 Michigan State University 17 31 1,318 3,072 3,543
78 University of Alabama 15 34 1,192 3,688 3,438
79 University of South Carolina 17 23 1,356 1,999 3,851
80 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 15 28 966 3,933 3,321
81 University of Connecticut 18 24 1,137 2,239 3,906
82 University of Cincinnati 12 36 920 4,403 2,779
83 Seton Hall University 14 30 1,123 3,234 2,785
84 Indiana University Indianapolis 11 27 964 3,568 3,106
85 Hofstra University 13 34 962 4,009 2,466
86 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 13 29 1,004 2,945 3,210
87 Albany Law School 11 26 879 2,900 3,873
88 University of Missouri 16 31 1,081 3,138 2,528
89 Catholic University of America 17 26 1,123 2,742 2,602
90 Georgia State University 14 25 975 2,521 3,496
91 DePaul University 12 37 672 4,206 3,343
92 Santa Clara University 15 33 871 3,603 2,633
93 Pace University 12 27 779 2,783 3,844
94 New York Law School 14 29 732 3,276 3,564
95 Willamette University College of Law 16 31 975 2,680 2,755
96 South Texas College of Law Houston 13 22 931 2,025 3,399
97 St. John's University 12 22 1,107 1,809 2,671
98 Washington and Lee University 15 22 934 2,167 2,909
99 University of Oklahoma 15 19 958 1,557 3,007
100 Suffolk University 9 28 682 2,593 3,126