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Last Updated: December 2025

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Harvard University 67 172 25,848 118,466 47,657
2 Yale University 65 171 24,744 120,107 47,268
3 New York University 50 120 16,911 69,364 37,102
4 Columbia University School of Law 55 109 14,791 46,928 32,957
5 University of Virginia 55 94 16,154 37,576 31,442
6 Georgetown University 46 94 14,059 42,372 30,762
7 University of Chicago 48 107 14,013 45,868 25,814
8 University of California, Berkeley 39 91 9,889 37,888 24,196
9 University of California, Los Angeles 43 92 10,781 34,604 21,216
10 George Washington University 38 84 8,403 28,847 22,559
11 Stanford University 42 92 8,922 30,871 16,621
12 University of Michigan 42 69 9,753 21,805 19,174
13 University of Pennsylvania 40 75 9,320 23,931 19,162
14 Northwestern University 36 81 7,698 29,351 16,479
15 Duke University 35 71 6,733 21,365 14,110
16 University of Texas at Austin 31 75 6,378 24,744 12,540
17 Vanderbilt University 36 73 6,765 20,969 13,840
18 Cornell University 30 61 4,905 15,555 12,602
19 Fordham University 29 54 5,104 13,561 11,446
20 University of Minnesota 30 52 4,352 11,980 12,814
21 University of Florida 28 51 4,459 12,453 10,750
22 Washington University 29 50 4,326 11,067 12,209
23 Rutgers University 26 55 3,763 13,373 10,890
24 Boston University 28 42 4,235 9,155 11,305
25 University of California, Davis 28 47 4,212 8,933 10,949
26 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 26 48 3,685 9,472 8,500
27 William & Mary Law School 27 44 3,936 8,332 8,320
28 Emory University 22 48 3,039 9,861 10,304
29 University of Colorado Boulder 25 47 3,022 8,951 10,222
30 University of Wisconsin-Madison 22 49 2,822 9,874 7,781
31 Texas A&M University 24 36 3,191 5,772 9,498
32 Florida State University 23 42 3,004 7,372 8,766
33 University of San Diego 22 58 2,746 11,552 5,927
34 Ohio State University 22 48 2,871 8,664 6,978
35 University of Notre Dame 23 45 2,995 7,733 7,214
36 George Mason University 19 49 2,436 10,079 6,457
37 Indiana University Bloomington 19 52 2,295 9,621 6,880
38 Yeshiva University 23 42 2,652 7,107 7,331
39 Temple University 21 41 2,663 6,486 7,382
40 University of California, San Francisco 21 43 2,571 7,309 6,860
41 University of California, Irvine 25 40 2,606 4,986 8,367
42 Arizona State University 20 40 2,160 7,327 7,252
43 Brooklyn Law School 24 36 2,721 5,460 5,092
44 Brigham Young University 25 34 2,581 4,614 5,563
45 American University 17 35 1,706 6,531 7,050
46 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 16 46 1,658 7,866 5,657
47 Seattle University 17 39 1,554 9,043 4,752
48 University of Southern California 22 39 2,007 5,555 5,472
49 University of Maryland 19 40 1,895 6,502 5,064
50 University of Arizona 19 42 1,692 5,782 5,811
51 University of Utah 19 36 1,841 4,386 6,040
52 Boston College 19 36 1,901 5,181 4,381
53 University of Miami 16 34 1,336 5,810 6,379
54 Southern Methodist University 19 31 1,852 3,600 5,723
55 University of Pittsburgh 16 40 1,548 6,297 4,424
56 Loyola Marymount University 18 35 1,717 4,742 4,748
57 University of Houston 13 41 1,250 7,104 4,624
58 Pennsylvania State University 18 30 1,710 4,186 5,081
59 Wake Forest University 18 43 1,501 5,912 4,412
60 University of St. Thomas 17 42 1,430 6,495 4,065
61 University of Georgia 18 34 1,753 4,337 3,990
62 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 18 35 1,541 5,320 3,642
63 University of Denver 18 30 1,688 3,815 4,130
64 University of Richmond 17 33 1,481 4,545 4,290
65 Loyola University Chicago 18 29 1,506 3,422 5,080
66 Pepperdine University 17 34 1,513 4,879 3,449
67 University of Iowa 16 31 1,423 3,455 5,075
68 University of Washington 17 28 1,441 3,121 4,736
69 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 14 35 1,140 5,129 3,870
70 Northeastern University 15 28 1,077 4,165 4,652
71 Case Western Reserve University 15 34 1,086 4,193 4,340
72 Wayne State University 14 39 983 5,555 3,354
73 University at Buffalo 16 28 1,179 4,084 3,720
74 University of Baltimore 14 27 1,147 3,562 4,306
75 Lewis & Clark Law School 15 31 1,219 4,181 3,295
76 Michigan State University 17 31 1,336 3,110 3,491
77 University of Kansas 16 31 1,156 4,005 3,346
78 University of Alabama 15 34 1,162 3,665 3,303
79 University of South Carolina 17 23 1,373 1,981 3,669
80 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 15 28 980 3,945 3,124
81 University of Connecticut 18 24 1,154 2,342 3,701
82 Seton Hall University 14 30 1,139 3,243 2,723
83 University of Cincinnati 13 36 927 4,388 2,631
84 Indiana University Indianapolis 11 27 978 3,536 2,962
85 Hofstra University 13 34 978 4,017 2,332
86 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 14 30 1,044 2,967 2,943
87 Albany Law School 11 26 894 2,900 3,696
88 University of Missouri 16 31 1,097 3,081 2,490
89 DePaul University 12 37 681 4,258 3,337
90 Catholic University of America 17 26 1,146 2,742 2,544
91 Georgia State University 14 25 965 2,538 3,302
92 Santa Clara University 16 33 900 3,610 2,470
93 New York Law School 14 29 742 3,294 3,481
94 Pace University 12 27 786 2,788 3,691
95 Willamette University College of Law 16 31 985 2,666 2,645
96 St. John's University 12 22 1,120 1,837 2,630
97 South Texas College of Law Houston 13 22 946 2,025 3,157
98 Washington and Lee University 15 22 945 2,165 2,762
99 University of Oklahoma 15 19 983 1,557 2,839
100 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 13 24 869 2,247 2,538