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Last Updated: January 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 30 51 3,017 12,101 7,244
2 Harvard University 22 43 1,688 7,939 6,303
3 Georgetown University 18 42 1,944 6,849 6,092
4 New York University 22 37 1,879 5,974 4,886
5 University of Virginia 18 31 1,552 4,297 4,906
6 University of Pennsylvania 17 34 1,237 4,682 4,592
7 Columbia University School of Law 22 31 1,387 4,083 2,895
8 University of California, Berkeley 17 29 1,180 3,494 4,108
9 George Washington University 16 29 1,200 2,922 4,111
10 University of Michigan 18 23 1,093 2,619 3,427
11 Boston University 17 24 1,115 2,559 3,081
12 University of California, Davis 17 22 1,010 1,610 3,748
13 University of California, Los Angeles 14 26 885 2,478 2,511
14 Duke University 13 29 792 2,543 2,352
15 Stanford University 14 26 838 2,390 2,152
16 University of Chicago 15 24 850 2,089 2,338
17 Vanderbilt University 14 26 721 2,839 2,079
18 University of Florida 13 26 743 2,394 2,099
19 Northwestern University 12 25 754 2,291 1,730
20 University of California, San Francisco 11 24 581 2,200 2,332
21 Emory University 14 22 654 1,693 2,397
22 University of Minnesota 13 22 609 1,708 1,945
23 Arizona State University 10 25 524 2,004 1,890
24 Rutgers University 11 23 596 1,631 1,884
25 Fordham University 12 25 536 1,851 1,911
26 Temple University 10 17 592 946 2,489
27 Texas A&M University 10 22 543 1,868 1,743
28 Washington University 11 23 563 1,518 1,850
29 Wake Forest University 12 24 440 2,340 1,563
30 Cornell University 10 19 467 2,235 1,482
31 University of Texas at Austin 12 26 482 2,167 1,296
32 University of Pittsburgh 12 15 604 855 1,842
33 Ohio State University 13 19 573 1,175 1,649
34 University of San Diego 13 18 685 1,177 1,083
35 American University 11 18 422 1,244 2,140
36 Indiana University Bloomington 12 18 531 1,240 1,620
37 Georgia State University 11 16 439 898 2,285
38 Northeastern University 11 19 508 1,211 1,450
39 Drexel University 8 15 468 848 1,858
40 University of Maryland 11 19 455 1,188 1,531
41 Case Western Reserve University 10 22 400 1,571 1,394
42 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 9 22 345 1,676 1,381
43 Indiana University Indianapolis 8 22 359 1,657 1,247
44 Loyola University Chicago 10 20 408 1,280 1,306
45 Florida State University 10 16 406 804 1,715
46 University of Utah 9 15 386 800 1,501
47 Southern Methodist University 11 15 444 703 1,309
48 Seattle University 8 16 352 1,549 925
49 Pace University 9 15 296 660 2,027
50 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 9 23 303 1,526 829
51 University of Southern California 8 20 268 1,452 934
52 Pennsylvania State University 10 13 340 520 1,388
53 University of St. Thomas 10 15 339 691 1,128
54 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 10 12 384 503 1,090
55 Seton Hall University 8 19 298 1,100 882
56 William & Mary Law School 10 14 371 648 944
57 University of Wisconsin-Madison 7 19 295 1,187 778
58 Brooklyn Law School 8 22 256 1,414 640
59 University of Houston 8 15 260 785 1,221
60 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 7 20 264 980 943
61 University of Iowa 9 13 274 461 1,375
62 University of Georgia 9 14 311 528 1,109
63 University of Denver 11 13 325 622 947
64 Yeshiva University 10 16 269 942 809
65 University of Washington 10 14 294 656 960
66 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 8 17 223 1,125 754
67 University of Colorado Boulder 10 11 294 585 873
68 University of Baltimore 10 10 255 233 1,328
69 University of California, Irvine 10 13 306 464 862
70 Loyola Marymount University 8 14 266 604 902
71 Willamette University College of Law 8 7 177 184 1,662
72 Suffolk University 6 17 201 1,125 652
73 University of Missouri-Kansas City 9 15 203 640 1,076
74 University of Arizona 6 19 131 1,243 825
75 Pepperdine University 6 18 216 912 681
76 University of Miami 10 12 298 392 743
77 Wayne State University 7 13 186 736 846
78 University of Oklahoma 8 13 248 538 736
79 George Mason University 7 15 205 736 707
80 University of Louisville 5 19 145 1,010 723
81 Saint Louis University 6 14 188 616 891
82 University of Missouri 10 12 271 560 547
83 University of Alabama 7 11 223 389 934
84 Santa Clara University 7 15 158 792 830
85 University at Buffalo 7 11 160 957 656
86 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 6 13 169 562 808
87 Hofstra University 6 17 153 815 585
88 Syracuse University 7 13 157 696 646
89 Stetson University 8 10 187 271 901
90 Boston College 9 12 182 669 534
91 Louisiana State University 5 15 130 809 526
92 Brigham Young University Law School 6 16 157 602 585
93 University of South Carolina 7 8 156 358 806
94 University of Richmond 8 10 188 318 686
95 DePaul University 5 15 125 776 470
96 Southwestern Law School 7 10 127 299 871
97 South Texas College of Law Houston 6 11 140 350 758
98 University of Notre Dame 6 12 127 497 662
99 City University of New York (CUNY) 7 11 146 526 525
100 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 6 11 101 542 592