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Last Updated: March 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 30 52 2,697 12,782 7,317
2 Georgetown University 18 43 1,649 7,272 5,739
3 Harvard University 19 43 1,443 8,249 5,940
4 New York University 22 38 1,691 6,137 4,630
5 University of Virginia 18 31 1,407 4,530 4,594
6 University of Pennsylvania 17 35 1,174 4,992 4,487
7 Columbia University School of Law 19 33 1,207 4,342 2,775
8 University of California, Berkeley 16 29 984 3,706 3,798
9 George Washington University 14 27 1,006 3,000 4,007
10 University of Michigan 18 26 968 3,063 3,408
11 Boston University 15 25 927 2,755 2,999
12 University of California, Davis 15 22 864 1,676 3,674
13 University of California, Los Angeles 14 27 789 2,611 2,522
14 Duke University 13 29 679 2,842 2,156
15 Stanford University 13 27 733 2,501 2,061
16 Vanderbilt University 11 27 601 2,986 2,002
17 Northwestern University 12 26 664 2,422 1,630
18 University of Chicago 13 25 630 1,961 2,184
19 University of California, San Francisco 11 25 544 2,322 2,230
20 University of Florida 12 26 589 2,389 1,897
21 Emory University 14 22 574 1,814 2,316
22 Temple University 10 18 561 1,031 2,444
23 Arizona State University 10 26 464 2,243 1,822
24 Fordham University 12 25 492 1,967 1,902
25 University of Minnesota 13 23 529 1,806 1,832
26 Rutgers University 10 23 523 1,713 1,708
27 Texas A&M University 10 22 476 1,964 1,706
28 Wake Forest University 12 24 392 2,400 1,551
29 Washington University 11 25 486 1,606 1,750
30 University of Pittsburgh 11 16 573 931 1,794
31 Cornell University 9 20 402 2,306 1,341
32 Georgia State University 10 16 396 979 2,422
33 Ohio State University 11 20 509 1,259 1,561
34 University of San Diego 12 18 591 1,301 1,087
35 University of Texas at Austin 11 26 404 2,215 1,224
36 Indiana University Bloomington 12 18 473 1,327 1,496
37 American University 10 19 352 1,326 1,993
38 Drexel University 8 15 456 877 1,792
39 Northeastern University 11 19 419 1,358 1,381
40 University of Maryland 10 19 401 1,269 1,448
41 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 9 22 309 1,736 1,368
42 Case Western Reserve University 9 23 340 1,667 1,253
43 Loyola University Chicago 10 19 378 1,313 1,331
44 Florida State University 10 16 370 851 1,668
45 University of Utah 9 17 336 902 1,433
46 Indiana University Indianapolis 7 23 229 1,807 1,138
47 Southern Methodist University 10 15 395 772 1,192
48 Seattle University 7 17 298 1,602 862
49 Pace University 9 15 270 674 1,732
50 University of Iowa 10 15 314 604 1,528
51 Pennsylvania State University 9 14 297 620 1,371
52 University of Southern California 7 20 232 1,497 858
53 University of St. Thomas 9 15 305 757 1,069
54 William & Mary Law School 9 15 326 727 898
55 Seton Hall University 7 20 262 1,144 833
56 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 8 13 320 575 1,029
57 University of Houston 8 16 232 846 1,177
58 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 7 23 209 1,474 709
59 University of Wisconsin-Madison 7 19 250 1,183 756
60 Brooklyn Law School 7 22 229 1,450 584
61 University of Georgia 9 14 282 577 1,062
62 University of Denver 10 14 289 686 899
63 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 7 20 229 1,010 905
64 University of Washington 9 15 247 713 964
65 Yeshiva University 9 16 230 984 780
66 University of Colorado Boulder 8 12 257 624 850
67 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 7 17 193 1,060 754
68 University of Baltimore 8 10 231 275 1,237
69 Loyola Marymount University 8 14 229 639 876
70 University of California, Irvine 9 14 257 521 831
71 University of Arizona 5 20 112 1,296 813
72 University of Missouri-Kansas City 8 15 172 662 1,015
73 University of Miami 10 13 255 447 721
74 University of Oklahoma 7 13 224 568 748
75 Pepperdine University 5 17 178 931 647
76 Suffolk University 6 17 156 1,014 638
77 University of Alabama 7 12 196 439 936
78 Wayne State University 6 14 164 781 795
79 University of Missouri 10 12 244 593 522
80 Saint Louis University 6 14 160 656 883
81 University of Louisville 5 20 124 1,076 669
82 University at Buffalo 7 12 141 1,003 620
83 Santa Clara University 7 15 140 811 793
84 George Mason University 7 15 159 732 698
85 Willamette University College of Law 7 7 159 206 1,164
86 Stetson University 7 10 176 311 893
87 Boston College 8 12 159 709 530
88 Hofstra University 6 17 129 854 557
89 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 5 14 135 609 706
90 Syracuse University 6 13 125 729 640
91 University of Richmond 7 10 180 339 643
92 University of South Carolina 6 8 129 381 820
93 Brigham Young University Law School 5 16 138 653 516
94 Louisiana State University 4 15 98 830 546
95 City University of New York (CUNY) 7 11 140 548 509
96 Southwestern Law School 7 10 107 326 868
97 University of Notre Dame 6 13 110 547 640
98 South Texas College of Law Houston 6 12 130 365 696
99 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 6 11 93 556 611
100 DePaul University 5 14 91 750 437