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Last Updated: April 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 11 24 450 4,208 889
2 New York University 9 24 326 2,177 898
3 University of Pennsylvania 10 20 389 1,532 865
4 University of Minnesota 13 19 457 895 1,070
5 University of Virginia 9 19 342 1,645 909
6 Harvard University 7 23 216 2,253 620
7 Georgetown University 9 22 260 1,604 721
8 University of Chicago 10 16 349 937 669
9 University of California, Berkeley 6 14 265 1,086 691
10 Stanford University 7 23 218 1,413 433
11 Columbia University School of Law 8 16 219 1,240 485
12 Boston University 8 16 242 811 741
13 University of California, Los Angeles 9 16 240 950 538
14 University of Michigan 11 14 254 785 591
15 Duke University 7 16 132 1,326 688
16 Vanderbilt University 6 13 125 740 813
17 Fordham University 9 13 183 564 508
18 University of Iowa 5 10 194 413 485
19 Emory University 5 12 126 470 731
20 Rutgers University 5 17 107 878 454
21 George Washington University 5 15 113 761 457
22 Texas A&M University 6 15 138 770 297
23 University of Connecticut 5 9 91 647 451
24 University of Texas at Austin 5 14 93 643 431
25 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 6 12 81 521 542
26 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 5 13 107 511 373
27 Wake Forest University 4 13 49 800 284
28 Drexel University 4 10 56 281 578
29 University of Florida 5 9 94 339 323
30 Arizona State University 5 10 65 413 395
31 University of California, Davis 6 8 103 201 337
32 Yeshiva University 5 9 99 301 252
33 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 3 7 65 429 308
34 University of San Diego 4 10 81 449 193
35 University of Colorado Boulder 6 6 86 104 423
36 Indiana University Indianapolis 3 15 35 641 182
37 University of Southern California 5 8 74 291 277
38 Washington University 4 11 84 277 221
39 George Mason University 5 8 77 285 231
40 Case Western Reserve University 4 12 58 388 218
41 Suffolk University 3 8 47 470 194
42 Cornell University 4 10 75 262 214
43 Pennsylvania State University 5 8 80 195 233
44 Northwestern University 4 9 41 468 158
45 Syracuse University 4 8 48 490 103
46 University of Missouri 4 10 61 301 177
47 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 5 6 85 101 216
48 DePaul University 5 7 58 222 243
49 Georgia State University 3 11 36 394 185
50 Saint Louis University 4 9 53 276 175
51 University of Maryland 4 9 43 352 157
52 University of Wisconsin-Madison 3 11 32 482 80
53 St. Mary's University 4 9 50 281 148
54 Seton Hall University 5 11 40 320 152
55 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 10 47 241 170
56 University of California, Irvine 5 5 78 92 127
57 Indiana University Bloomington 4 7 44 187 189
58 Brooklyn Law School 3 5 46 232 140
59 Boston College 3 5 42 318 69
60 University of Houston 4 8 37 197 196
61 University of Louisville 3 12 28 378 80
62 University of Oklahoma 3 8 51 193 113
63 University of Washington 3 9 31 237 143
64 University of Arizona 4 6 48 95 180
65 Temple University 4 4 38 121 196
66 Ohio State University 4 6 40 129 175
67 Brigham Young University Law School 2 6 14 252 177
68 University of South Carolina 3 6 36 163 135
69 Seattle University 2 2 43 173 66
70 University of Georgia 2 7 28 159 145
71 University of Alabama 2 5 38 94 150
72 American University 3 7 29 151 139
73 Southwestern Law School 2 7 20 229 110
74 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 2 8 22 181 136
75 Louisiana State University 3 8 19 242 89
76 Samford University 3 5 23 126 168
77 Northeastern University 2 9 21 195 114
78 University of North Texas at Dallas 3 11 15 295 41
79 Loyola University Chicago 3 8 26 182 86
80 University of Miami 3 4 31 56 167
81 University of Kansas 3 5 21 244 49
82 University of Pittsburgh 3 7 32 162 64
83 Loyola Marymount University 3 8 30 132 95
84 Marquette University 4 5 46 48 85
85 William & Mary Law School 3 5 36 83 93
86 Santa Clara University 2 8 25 194 42
87 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 4 39 45 101
88 South Texas College of Law Houston 3 5 22 122 109
89 University of Tulsa 2 8 20 184 59
90 California Western School of Law 3 4 12 56 200
91 University of Missouri-Kansas City 2 5 30 70 93
92 University of California, San Francisco 3 3 23 38 156
93 Wayne State University 2 7 15 170 79
94 Southern Methodist University 3 7 24 97 93
95 Tulane University 1 7 6 150 128
96 Florida State University 2 6 17 106 105
97 Albany Law School 2 6 19 88 110
98 Quinnipiac University 3 4 29 90 55
99 University of Kentucky 3 7 29 101 38
100 Touro University 1 6 20 105 80