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Last Updated: February 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 19 53 1,889 11,634 8,010
2 Harvard University 22 58 1,587 12,071 6,487
3 New York University 15 50 1,302 8,593 7,031
4 Georgetown University 16 38 1,198 5,234 4,838
5 University of Chicago 17 42 1,148 6,469 3,735
6 University of California, Berkeley 13 35 1,092 4,410 4,352
7 George Washington University 13 44 840 5,483 3,658
8 University of Michigan 14 31 919 3,582 4,721
9 Columbia University School of Law 16 32 942 3,771 3,240
10 University of Virginia 16 36 975 4,127 2,757
11 University of California, Los Angeles 15 34 743 4,573 2,547
12 Duke University 11 31 833 3,667 2,862
13 Stanford University 14 22 593 2,310 3,161
14 American University 10 24 406 2,599 3,362
15 University of Pennsylvania 13 28 598 2,437 2,126
16 Cornell University 13 21 786 1,597 1,683
17 Temple University 10 27 447 2,362 1,988
18 Fordham University 11 22 525 1,913 1,423
19 Arizona State University 9 22 375 1,891 2,214
20 Northwestern University 10 24 386 2,231 1,754
21 Vanderbilt University 10 21 433 1,412 1,654
22 Boston University 8 22 409 1,385 1,794
23 University of Notre Dame 9 24 337 1,909 1,390
24 Texas A&M University 9 21 361 1,614 1,304
25 DePaul University 7 27 163 2,172 1,770
26 University of Texas at Austin 8 28 291 2,229 987
27 Emory University 7 16 268 815 2,109
28 University of California, San Francisco 8 22 249 1,712 1,417
29 University of California, Irvine 8 19 300 1,228 1,497
30 Rutgers University 7 18 240 1,603 1,310
31 Washington University 9 17 265 1,163 1,468
32 University of Southern California 9 18 280 1,378 1,054
33 Indiana University Bloomington 9 19 233 1,146 1,438
34 University of Houston 5 30 101 2,484 935
35 Loyola University Chicago 10 15 288 743 1,317
36 University of Minnesota 8 15 248 736 1,460
37 University of Miami 7 19 172 1,339 1,194
38 University of Wisconsin-Madison 7 14 160 1,181 1,322
39 George Mason University 5 19 128 1,485 1,050
40 University of Richmond 10 12 247 463 1,123
41 University of California, Davis 7 11 201 502 1,277
42 Case Western Reserve University 5 19 122 1,082 1,136
43 Pennsylvania State University 4 13 131 703 1,346
44 Southern Methodist University 7 13 177 727 1,067
45 University of San Diego 6 15 172 1,174 690
46 University of Utah 6 13 146 649 1,278
47 Brigham Young University Law School 8 15 210 812 782
48 University of Pittsburgh 6 17 138 1,172 818
49 University of Florida 7 16 176 982 746
50 Willamette University College of Law 6 20 144 1,294 572
51 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 8 7 170 454 1,140
52 William & Mary Law School 8 15 203 662 766
53 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 5 18 117 1,180 760
54 Ohio State University 7 11 205 481 905
55 Boston College 7 15 187 758 713
56 Yeshiva University 7 14 192 557 844
57 Florida State University 7 18 169 897 648
58 University of Colorado Boulder 5 15 154 563 976
59 New York Law School 4 9 59 483 1,449
60 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 8 13 146 707 669
61 University at Buffalo 5 13 107 619 930
62 Brooklyn Law School 7 13 159 522 689
63 Cleveland State University 5 10 74 286 1,303
64 University of Kansas 5 15 132 660 664
65 University of Baltimore 6 10 149 387 771
66 University of Maryland 6 14 136 600 650
67 Washington and Lee University 5 13 129 549 674
68 University of Arizona 6 14 127 641 592
69 Hofstra University 6 14 106 872 459
70 Pace University 5 14 82 524 787
71 Wayne State University 6 11 97 565 602
72 Northeastern University 7 11 117 447 573
73 Seattle University 5 12 75 428 793
74 Creighton University 4 12 45 374 973
75 University of Iowa 5 13 78 607 578
76 Tulane University 4 13 59 616 643
77 Texas Tech University 4 14 76 754 396
78 City University of New York (CUNY) 6 9 120 246 589
79 University of Connecticut 5 12 64 403 719
80 St. John's University 6 12 91 343 553
81 Loyola Marymount University 4 12 69 524 510
82 Chapman University 3 13 59 615 483
83 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 7 10 119 333 395
84 Villanova University 4 11 54 398 673
85 University of Cincinnati 5 13 54 515 563
86 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 14 79 508 398
87 Georgia State University 4 11 78 491 416
88 Marquette University 6 7 114 320 356
89 California Western School of Law 3 12 46 485 561
90 Syracuse University 5 11 74 302 553
91 Lewis & Clark Law School 4 10 63 353 564
92 University of Alabama 5 10 86 346 405
93 University of Illinois Chicago 5 11 62 348 507
94 Pepperdine University 4 9 49 285 617
95 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 4 14 49 492 428
96 Albany Law School 5 9 104 218 328
97 University of St. Thomas 6 9 101 275 289
98 University of Washington 4 8 63 184 530
99 Nova Southeastern University 4 8 53 291 486
100 Santa Clara University 4 10 62 408 336