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Last Updated: January 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 22 52 2,260 11,318 9,073
2 Harvard University 24 57 1,969 11,675 6,997
3 New York University 16 50 1,542 8,233 7,548
4 University of Chicago 20 40 1,432 6,487 4,055
5 Georgetown University 17 37 1,433 5,010 5,239
6 University of California, Berkeley 15 34 1,284 4,179 4,623
7 George Washington University 15 43 1,036 5,228 3,972
8 University of Michigan 14 30 1,068 3,397 5,127
9 Columbia University School of Law 18 32 1,139 3,620 3,544
10 University of Virginia 17 36 1,155 3,967 3,013
11 University of California, Los Angeles 16 34 890 4,434 2,768
12 Duke University 12 31 988 3,474 3,044
13 Stanford University 14 22 697 2,199 3,469
14 American University 10 23 477 2,479 3,430
15 University of Pennsylvania 15 27 734 2,329 2,274
16 Cornell University 14 19 919 1,454 1,812
17 Temple University 11 26 552 2,258 2,071
18 Fordham University 13 21 673 1,765 1,517
19 Arizona State University 9 20 447 1,802 2,395
20 Northwestern University 10 24 470 2,192 1,907
21 Boston University 9 22 446 1,336 1,834
22 University of Notre Dame 10 24 406 1,832 1,539
23 Vanderbilt University 10 19 506 1,189 1,588
24 Texas A&M University 11 20 451 1,530 1,464
25 University of Texas at Austin 10 26 385 2,178 1,142
26 DePaul University 8 26 217 2,114 1,901
27 Emory University 9 15 343 770 2,290
28 Washington University 10 18 351 1,261 1,731
29 University of California, Irvine 10 18 379 1,154 1,590
30 University of California, San Francisco 8 21 283 1,636 1,526
31 Rutgers University 7 18 264 1,576 1,349
32 Indiana University Bloomington 9 19 279 1,085 1,523
33 University of Houston 5 29 119 2,406 1,018
34 University of Southern California 9 17 299 1,305 1,096
35 Loyola University Chicago 11 15 330 722 1,486
36 University of Minnesota 9 15 288 677 1,515
37 University of Wisconsin-Madison 9 14 208 1,127 1,440
38 University of Miami 8 18 202 1,291 1,283
39 George Mason University 6 19 162 1,453 1,149
40 University of Richmond 11 10 308 396 1,218
41 Case Western Reserve University 6 19 157 1,044 1,194
42 University of California, Davis 8 11 226 479 1,381
43 Pennsylvania State University 5 13 163 671 1,456
44 University of San Diego 7 15 217 1,142 737
45 Brigham Young University Law School 9 14 244 775 923
46 Willamette University College of Law 8 21 200 1,272 642
47 University of Utah 7 13 176 651 1,345
48 Southern Methodist University 8 13 211 684 1,146
49 University of Pittsburgh 6 16 169 1,137 895
50 University of Florida 8 16 217 941 831
51 William & Mary Law School 9 16 257 683 820
52 Yeshiva University 7 13 230 517 991
53 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 6 18 137 1,145 826
54 University of Colorado Boulder 6 14 201 527 1,098
55 Ohio State University 7 10 237 442 984
56 Boston College 8 15 218 725 764
57 Florida State University 8 17 202 866 700
58 New York Law School 4 9 72 470 1,615
59 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 8 13 167 655 708
60 University at Buffalo 5 13 127 595 924
61 Cleveland State University 5 10 87 272 1,397
62 University of Arizona 6 14 170 603 684
63 University of Kansas 5 15 145 642 733
64 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 6 6 140 192 1,177
65 Washington and Lee University 6 13 153 531 781
66 University of Maryland 6 14 158 577 700
67 Brooklyn Law School 8 12 176 467 713
68 University of Baltimore 8 10 174 361 802
69 Hofstra University 6 14 131 842 496
70 Pace University 6 14 115 516 859
71 Wayne State University 6 11 107 551 679
72 Loyola Marymount University 5 13 105 541 640
73 Northeastern University 7 11 135 423 595
74 Creighton University 4 12 53 366 1,021
75 Texas Tech University 5 14 101 736 433
76 University of Iowa 5 13 88 577 620
77 University of Connecticut 5 12 91 387 757
78 Seattle University 6 11 93 395 736
79 City University of New York (CUNY) 6 9 140 231 639
80 Tulane University 5 13 62 598 617
81 St. John's University 7 12 107 352 635
82 Villanova University 4 12 63 407 723
83 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 14 97 491 416
84 Georgia State University 5 11 95 469 446
85 California Western School of Law 4 12 62 469 593
86 Chapman University 4 12 76 595 406
87 Lewis & Clark Law School 4 10 81 334 621
88 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 7 9 133 293 408
89 University of Cincinnati 5 13 67 501 513
90 Marquette University 6 7 131 300 386
91 Syracuse University 6 10 90 284 578
92 University of Alabama 6 9 106 324 429
93 University of Illinois Chicago 5 11 78 332 551
94 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 4 14 64 479 457
95 Pepperdine University 4 9 61 272 666
96 Albany Law School 5 9 119 205 386
97 University of St. Thomas 7 9 113 264 340
98 Santa Clara University 5 10 81 377 365
99 Nova Southeastern University 4 8 63 280 518
100 University of Washington 4 8 68 177 568