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Last Updated: April 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 University of California, Los Angeles 21 36 1,348 5,226 3,325
2 Yale University 17 40 1,174 5,499 3,444
3 University of California, Davis 15 44 959 5,156 3,672
4 Georgetown University 11 22 812 2,575 2,223
5 University of Virginia 13 24 987 1,958 1,825
6 Stanford University 14 18 766 1,343 3,460
7 New York University 15 24 759 2,203 2,309
8 Harvard University 12 27 567 3,431 1,637
9 University of California, Berkeley 12 18 414 1,553 2,747
10 Rutgers University 10 22 437 1,667 2,015
11 Duke University 13 17 556 1,278 1,578
12 Temple University 10 15 465 1,497 1,621
13 Columbia University School of Law 12 19 550 1,627 763
14 Lewis & Clark Law School 9 15 351 1,164 2,166
15 Fordham University 10 18 579 1,089 1,057
16 University of Michigan 11 17 382 1,118 1,837
17 University of San Francisco 7 18 211 1,164 2,231
18 Texas A&M University 10 14 378 889 1,278
19 University of California, Irvine 12 14 379 805 1,028
20 University of California, San Francisco 10 18 365 938 965
21 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 10 16 320 876 1,097
22 Yeshiva University 11 12 347 704 1,112
23 Boston College 11 19 346 936 820
24 Boston University 11 9 389 438 896
25 Pennsylvania State University 9 18 329 849 769
26 University of Colorado Boulder 11 14 330 531 856
27 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 9 11 321 566 859
28 Ohio State University 7 12 268 504 1,073
29 Vanderbilt University 8 12 312 612 378
30 George Washington University 8 12 251 518 648
31 University of Chicago 9 10 208 665 714
32 University of Minnesota 6 8 165 238 1,234
33 Arizona State University 8 15 156 728 738
34 Brooklyn Law School 8 10 240 325 562
35 Northwestern University 7 10 202 451 586
36 University of Pennsylvania 8 12 191 588 489
37 Seattle University 6 12 152 570 703
38 University of Texas at Austin 6 13 154 619 554
39 University of Miami 7 11 155 354 761
40 Cornell University 8 10 169 408 537
41 University of Iowa 7 10 139 324 723
42 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 7 7 139 254 785
43 Pepperdine University 9 8 201 294 399
44 American University 6 10 136 294 727
45 Emory University 6 10 118 628 472
46 University of Washington 5 10 149 272 622
47 Loyola Marymount University 6 11 107 358 702
48 University of Georgia 9 11 160 341 364
49 Washington University 8 7 178 147 398
50 City University of New York (CUNY) 6 8 124 353 429
51 Georgia State University 7 8 114 436 345
52 Florida State University 5 10 57 380 638
53 Michigan State University 7 11 101 587 229
54 University of Florida 5 12 109 399 338
55 Loyola University Chicago 6 5 105 211 520
56 University at Buffalo 6 8 115 198 450
57 Southern Methodist University 7 10 91 478 319
58 Tulane University 6 4 110 49 602
59 Seton Hall University 6 11 75 343 492
60 Widener University Commonwealth Law School 7 9 126 251 310
61 University of Denver 3 3 110 117 505
62 Roger Williams University 6 9 97 301 387
63 South Texas College of Law Houston 7 8 126 226 269
64 University of Alabama 7 6 128 86 370
65 University of Arizona 5 8 80 247 462
66 University of Houston 4 12 70 394 338
67 DePaul University 6 7 86 244 350
68 Hofstra University 6 8 94 411 160
69 University of South Carolina 5 8 103 168 305
70 Drexel University 5 5 100 194 295
71 Wake Forest University 5 9 65 527 166
72 Washburn University 6 7 97 208 243
73 University of Maryland 4 5 103 86 292
74 University of Oklahoma 6 7 79 133 316
75 Willamette University College of Law 5 7 45 296 342
76 Howard University 6 7 82 190 231
77 California Western School of Law 6 6 82 96 307
78 Indiana University Indianapolis 4 11 50 424 168
79 George Mason University 4 9 57 263 269
80 Southwestern Law School 4 7 47 243 323
81 New York Law School 4 10 46 362 220
82 Northeastern University 4 8 70 209 226
83 Albany Law School 5 5 68 54 347
84 Florida International University 4 6 47 164 346
85 Loyola University New Orleans 4 8 53 267 217
86 Indiana University Bloomington 4 8 68 129 241
87 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 5 7 48 252 232
88 University of Wisconsin-Madison 4 8 60 188 222
89 Brigham Young University Law School 4 6 65 137 240
90 University of Southern California 3 4 63 126 238
91 University of New Mexico 4 6 60 124 206
92 University of Connecticut 5 5 70 119 150
93 St. John's University 4 4 50 164 207
94 Wayne State University 4 7 48 115 254
95 Case Western Reserve University 5 3 68 38 220
96 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 4 3 48 118 235
97 University of Cincinnati 3 5 50 195 156
98 University of Idaho 6 6 57 139 160
99 William & Mary Law School 5 8 51 153 168
100 University of Pittsburgh 3 6 38 173 209