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Last Updated: February 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 29 52 2,647 12,769 6,962
2 Harvard University 19 43 1,425 8,260 5,755
3 Georgetown University 18 43 1,609 7,244 5,523
4 New York University 22 38 1,652 6,125 4,444
5 University of Virginia 18 31 1,356 4,522 4,541
6 University of Pennsylvania 17 36 1,169 5,045 4,391
7 Columbia University School of Law 19 33 1,203 4,342 2,676
8 University of California, Berkeley 16 29 969 3,692 3,719
9 George Washington University 14 29 993 3,122 3,752
10 University of Michigan 17 26 927 3,018 3,161
11 Boston University 15 25 915 2,753 2,851
12 University of California, Davis 15 22 843 1,681 3,504
13 University of California, Los Angeles 14 28 820 2,805 2,380
14 Duke University 13 29 667 2,838 2,086
15 Stanford University 13 27 718 2,497 1,966
16 Vanderbilt University 11 27 584 2,967 1,911
17 Northwestern University 12 26 653 2,422 1,590
18 University of Florida 12 26 594 2,415 1,850
19 University of California, San Francisco 11 25 532 2,333 2,191
20 Emory University 14 22 585 1,831 2,280
21 University of Chicago 12 24 599 1,931 2,092
22 Temple University 10 18 547 1,035 2,346
23 Arizona State University 10 26 447 2,242 1,773
24 University of Minnesota 13 23 514 1,794 1,782
25 Fordham University 12 25 465 1,957 1,831
26 Rutgers University 10 23 527 1,724 1,632
27 Texas A&M University 9 22 461 1,963 1,633
28 Wake Forest University 12 24 385 2,400 1,431
29 Washington University 11 24 472 1,585 1,659
30 University of Pittsburgh 11 16 561 932 1,707
31 Cornell University 9 20 395 2,306 1,264
32 Ohio State University 11 20 500 1,260 1,557
33 University of Texas at Austin 11 26 400 2,215 1,214
34 University of San Diego 12 18 585 1,301 1,006
35 Indiana University Bloomington 12 18 466 1,320 1,459
36 Georgia State University 10 16 381 987 2,099
37 American University 10 19 348 1,326 1,948
38 Drexel University 8 15 442 877 1,730
39 Northeastern University 11 19 405 1,351 1,337
40 University of Maryland 10 19 391 1,271 1,383
41 Case Western Reserve University 9 23 335 1,668 1,315
42 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 9 22 302 1,740 1,328
43 Florida State University 10 16 380 857 1,665
44 Loyola University Chicago 10 19 373 1,307 1,270
45 University of Utah 9 17 330 901 1,410
46 Indiana University Indianapolis 7 23 223 1,806 1,153
47 Southern Methodist University 10 15 387 772 1,192
48 Pace University 9 15 268 681 1,822
49 Seattle University 7 17 292 1,601 807
50 Pennsylvania State University 9 14 303 621 1,363
51 University of Southern California 8 21 251 1,522 846
52 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 9 23 253 1,579 768
53 University of St. Thomas 9 15 302 757 1,048
54 William & Mary Law School 9 15 321 709 882
55 Seton Hall University 7 20 258 1,144 798
56 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 8 13 315 574 983
57 University of Houston 8 16 227 852 1,117
58 University of Wisconsin-Madison 7 19 241 1,183 727
59 University of Iowa 9 14 254 485 1,251
60 Brooklyn Law School 7 22 224 1,451 549
61 University of Georgia 9 14 279 577 998
62 University of Denver 10 14 284 686 863
63 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 7 20 223 1,011 874
64 University of Washington 9 15 244 712 910
65 Yeshiva University 9 16 223 976 749
66 University of Colorado Boulder 8 12 253 623 850
67 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 7 17 190 1,060 746
68 University of Baltimore 8 10 220 275 1,203
69 Loyola Marymount University 8 14 224 639 856
70 University of California, Irvine 9 14 255 521 782
71 University of Arizona 5 20 110 1,296 768
72 University of Missouri-Kansas City 8 15 171 662 976
73 University of Miami 10 13 252 441 686
74 Pepperdine University 5 17 171 928 629
75 University of Oklahoma 7 13 219 568 676
76 Suffolk University 6 17 156 1,013 609
77 Wayne State University 6 14 159 774 789
78 Willamette University College of Law 7 7 157 206 1,269
79 University of Missouri 10 12 241 593 494
80 Saint Louis University 6 14 158 656 847
81 University of Alabama 6 12 187 439 870
82 University at Buffalo 7 12 139 1,002 616
83 University of Louisville 5 20 120 1,069 631
84 Santa Clara University 7 15 137 814 756
85 George Mason University 6 15 156 730 630
86 Stetson University 7 10 174 311 853
87 Boston College 8 12 161 710 515
88 Hofstra University 6 17 128 854 551
89 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 5 14 131 609 724
90 Syracuse University 6 13 124 733 616
91 University of Richmond 7 10 171 339 621
92 Brigham Young University Law School 5 16 136 625 525
93 University of South Carolina 6 8 128 381 748
94 Louisiana State University 4 15 102 832 487
95 South Texas College of Law Houston 6 12 128 361 704
96 University of Notre Dame 6 13 109 547 619
97 City University of New York (CUNY) 7 11 130 548 493
98 Southwestern Law School 7 10 103 326 815
99 DePaul University 5 14 90 750 423
100 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 5 11 89 556 565