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Last Updated: May 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 11 24 459 4,213 877
2 Harvard University 8 23 283 4,004 632
3 New York University 9 25 358 2,363 914
4 University of Pennsylvania 10 20 407 1,535 867
5 University of Minnesota 13 19 475 895 1,043
6 University of Virginia 9 19 349 1,647 904
7 Georgetown University 9 21 263 1,575 727
8 University of Chicago 10 16 354 937 644
9 Stanford University 8 23 268 1,432 447
10 University of California, Berkeley 6 14 267 1,086 619
11 Columbia University School of Law 9 16 240 1,246 485
12 Boston University 8 16 247 813 763
13 University of Michigan 11 14 270 796 580
14 University of California, Los Angeles 9 16 246 952 541
15 Vanderbilt University 6 13 129 740 845
16 Duke University 7 15 124 883 677
17 University of Iowa 5 10 198 413 496
18 Fordham University 9 13 176 561 439
19 Rutgers University 5 17 104 863 445
20 Texas A&M University 6 15 143 774 300
21 George Washington University 5 15 115 742 450
22 Emory University 5 10 90 438 717
23 University of Texas at Austin 6 14 99 645 438
24 University of Connecticut 5 9 93 647 436
25 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 6 12 82 522 589
26 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 5 13 112 513 398
27 Wake Forest University 4 13 50 799 295
28 University of San Diego 5 11 95 601 202
29 Drexel University 4 10 58 281 579
30 University of Florida 5 9 98 339 319
31 Arizona State University 5 10 67 413 404
32 University of California, Davis 6 8 104 202 319
33 Yeshiva University 5 9 102 303 237
34 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 3 7 65 430 303
35 University of Colorado Boulder 6 6 88 104 426
36 Washington University 5 11 89 277 241
37 Indiana University Indianapolis 3 15 35 639 179
38 University of Southern California 5 8 76 291 267
39 George Mason University 5 8 80 286 226
40 Cornell University 5 10 81 263 235
41 Suffolk University 3 8 48 470 198
42 DePaul University 5 8 62 274 267
43 Case Western Reserve University 4 12 58 388 165
44 Northwestern University 4 9 42 468 157
45 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 5 6 86 101 257
46 Syracuse University 4 8 48 490 86
47 Pennsylvania State University 5 7 83 150 208
48 University of Missouri 5 10 63 301 168
49 Georgia State University 3 11 38 392 154
50 University of Maryland 4 9 45 352 146
51 Saint Louis University 4 9 53 276 167
52 Seton Hall University 5 11 41 320 176
53 University of Wisconsin-Madison 3 11 32 482 80
54 St. Mary's University 4 9 52 282 141
55 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 10 47 240 170
56 University of California, Irvine 5 5 81 92 117
57 Indiana University Bloomington 4 7 47 187 178
58 University of Houston 4 8 42 197 191
59 Brooklyn Law School 3 5 46 232 136
60 University of Louisville 3 12 29 378 75
61 Boston College 3 5 42 318 65
62 University of Oklahoma 3 8 52 194 115
63 Ohio State University 4 6 40 129 196
64 University of Washington 3 9 31 237 143
65 University of Arizona 4 6 50 95 173
66 University of South Carolina 3 7 37 175 131
67 Temple University 3 4 34 121 182
68 University of Alabama 2 5 44 95 148
69 Brigham Young University Law School 2 6 14 252 152
70 University of Georgia 2 7 29 159 157
71 Seattle University 2 2 43 173 63
72 Albany Law School 3 6 36 123 138
73 Southwestern Law School 2 7 20 229 114
74 Samford University 3 5 25 126 178
75 Louisiana State University 3 8 21 242 83
76 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 2 8 22 181 131
77 Northeastern University 2 9 23 195 103
78 University of North Texas at Dallas 3 11 16 295 38
79 University of Kansas 3 5 22 245 51
80 Loyola University Chicago 3 8 27 182 79
81 American University 3 6 28 125 122
82 University of Pittsburgh 3 7 33 162 64
83 Marquette University 4 5 48 48 88
84 University of Miami 3 4 32 56 162
85 Loyola Marymount University 3 8 31 132 94
86 Santa Clara University 2 8 26 194 45
87 William & Mary Law School 3 5 36 81 89
88 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 4 40 45 102
89 University of Tulsa 2 8 20 184 52
90 South Texas College of Law Houston 3 5 22 118 99
91 University of California, San Francisco 3 3 23 38 162
92 Tulane University 1 7 7 163 127
93 Southern Methodist University 3 7 24 97 97
94 Wayne State University 2 7 15 170 77
95 California Western School of Law 3 4 12 56 190
96 University of Missouri-Kansas City 2 5 30 70 79
97 University of Notre Dame 2 6 16 147 76
98 Quinnipiac University 3 4 29 90 55
99 Florida State University 2 6 16 108 102
100 University of Kentucky 3 7 29 101 37