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Last Updated: May 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 University of California, Los Angeles 20 35 1,312 5,179 3,324
2 Yale University 17 40 1,187 5,505 3,374
3 University of California, Davis 15 44 974 5,157 3,542
4 Georgetown University 11 22 838 2,548 2,188
5 Stanford University 15 18 778 1,385 3,363
6 University of Virginia 12 24 979 1,940 1,814
7 Harvard University 14 28 682 3,511 1,804
8 New York University 16 24 786 2,204 2,334
9 University of California, Berkeley 12 18 421 1,554 2,771
10 Duke University 13 17 570 1,281 1,679
11 Rutgers University 10 22 440 1,665 1,941
12 Temple University 10 15 475 1,497 1,590
13 Lewis & Clark Law School 9 15 360 1,164 2,293
14 Columbia University School of Law 12 19 558 1,627 729
15 University of Michigan 11 17 393 1,118 1,864
16 University of San Francisco 7 18 230 1,195 2,466
17 Fordham University 9 17 466 997 895
18 Texas A&M University 10 14 383 889 1,261
19 Yeshiva University 12 12 363 704 1,190
20 University of California, San Francisco 10 18 367 940 954
21 University of California, Irvine 12 14 381 805 991
22 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 10 16 326 876 1,032
23 Boston College 11 19 357 936 801
24 Boston University 11 9 396 439 856
25 Pennsylvania State University 9 18 333 849 741
26 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 9 11 327 566 877
27 University of Colorado Boulder 11 14 336 531 859
28 Ohio State University 7 12 274 504 1,049
29 Vanderbilt University 8 12 321 626 391
30 University of Chicago 9 10 214 665 714
31 Arizona State University 8 15 195 724 750
32 University of Minnesota 6 8 168 238 1,229
33 George Washington University 8 11 247 477 587
34 Brooklyn Law School 8 10 243 335 609
35 University of Texas at Austin 7 14 163 668 599
36 University of Pennsylvania 8 12 196 588 494
37 Northwestern University 7 10 204 451 550
38 Seattle University 6 12 152 570 647
39 University of Miami 7 11 159 354 710
40 Cornell University 8 10 173 409 555
41 University of Iowa 7 10 145 324 748
42 Pepperdine University 9 8 208 294 399
43 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 7 7 142 254 741
44 Emory University 6 10 122 628 450
45 American University 6 10 127 279 709
46 University of Washington 5 10 150 272 591
47 Loyola Marymount University 6 11 108 358 713
48 University of Georgia 9 11 163 341 397
49 Washington University 8 7 185 146 378
50 City University of New York (CUNY) 6 8 116 354 419
51 Georgia State University 7 8 115 436 320
52 Tulane University 7 4 122 49 627
53 Michigan State University 7 11 102 588 236
54 University of Florida 6 12 113 399 339
55 Loyola University Chicago 7 5 111 211 515
56 Florida State University 4 9 52 349 644
57 Southern Methodist University 7 10 91 478 320
58 University of Denver 3 3 112 117 541
59 Widener University Commonwealth Law School 7 9 133 251 310
60 University at Buffalo 6 8 116 198 441
61 Seton Hall University 6 11 75 343 507
62 Roger Williams University 6 9 97 301 394
63 South Texas College of Law Houston 7 8 129 226 272
64 University of Alabama 7 6 129 87 376
65 University of Arizona 5 8 83 247 443
66 University of Houston 4 12 72 392 360
67 Drexel University 5 6 106 208 317
68 Wake Forest University 6 10 71 558 177
69 University of Maryland 5 5 114 88 366
70 Hofstra University 6 8 94 412 162
71 University of South Carolina 5 8 102 167 312
72 Washburn University 6 7 99 208 239
73 University of Oklahoma 6 7 81 133 333
74 Willamette University College of Law 5 8 47 315 336
75 DePaul University 5 5 71 213 281
76 Howard University 6 7 83 190 234
77 Indiana University Indianapolis 4 11 53 424 158
78 George Mason University 4 9 57 263 276
79 Southwestern Law School 4 7 49 243 318
80 New York Law School 4 10 47 363 220
81 California Western School of Law 6 6 82 90 270
82 Northeastern University 4 8 71 209 211
83 Loyola University New Orleans 4 8 53 267 229
84 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 5 7 50 252 241
85 Florida International University 4 6 44 164 350
86 Albany Law School 5 4 65 47 328
87 University of Wisconsin-Madison 4 8 61 188 221
88 Brigham Young University Law School 4 6 65 137 246
89 Indiana University Bloomington 4 8 69 129 231
90 University of Southern California 3 4 68 125 221
91 University of New Mexico 4 6 62 124 199
92 University of Connecticut 5 5 70 120 152
93 University of Notre Dame 4 7 62 203 111
94 St. John's University 4 4 51 164 200
95 University of Cincinnati 3 5 51 195 165
96 Case Western Reserve University 5 3 70 36 208
97 Chapman University 4 10 43 242 154
98 University of San Diego 3 5 40 131 255
99 University of Idaho 6 6 59 139 149
100 University of Oregon 3 6 30 119 303