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Last Updated: April 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 20 54 1,999 11,706 8,342
2 Harvard University 22 57 1,628 11,824 6,509
3 New York University 15 50 1,313 8,504 6,996
4 University of Chicago 18 42 1,198 6,565 3,681
5 University of California, Berkeley 14 35 1,132 4,370 4,178
6 Georgetown University 16 34 1,108 4,419 4,146
7 University of Michigan 14 31 970 3,568 5,034
8 George Washington University 13 43 839 5,019 3,342
9 University of Virginia 17 36 1,018 4,157 3,001
10 Columbia University School of Law 16 32 993 3,824 3,261
11 University of California, Los Angeles 15 34 763 4,569 2,475
12 Duke University 12 31 868 3,657 2,719
13 Stanford University 14 22 630 2,312 3,197
14 American University 10 24 414 2,599 3,345
15 University of Pennsylvania 12 28 618 2,444 2,266
16 Cornell University 13 21 823 1,606 1,703
17 Temple University 10 27 464 2,361 1,938
18 Fordham University 11 22 541 1,922 1,478
19 Arizona State University 9 22 380 1,881 2,230
20 Northwestern University 10 24 376 2,221 1,815
21 Boston University 8 22 429 1,379 1,774
22 Vanderbilt University 10 21 440 1,381 1,545
23 University of Notre Dame 9 24 349 1,909 1,420
24 University of Texas at Austin 9 28 333 2,293 1,023
25 Texas A&M University 9 21 384 1,615 1,289
26 Emory University 8 16 282 804 2,327
27 DePaul University 7 27 169 2,164 1,661
28 University of California, San Francisco 9 21 265 1,685 1,361
29 University of California, Irvine 8 19 316 1,217 1,457
30 Washington University 9 17 285 1,175 1,583
31 Rutgers University 7 18 241 1,606 1,229
32 Indiana University Bloomington 9 19 253 1,195 1,368
33 University of Houston 5 29 106 2,423 889
34 University of Southern California 8 17 266 1,352 991
35 Loyola University Chicago 10 15 301 753 1,286
36 University of Minnesota 9 15 256 728 1,427
37 University of Miami 7 19 183 1,330 1,195
38 University of Wisconsin-Madison 7 14 165 1,182 1,251
39 University of Richmond 10 12 254 462 1,153
40 University of California, Davis 8 11 207 508 1,266
41 George Mason University 5 19 133 1,485 773
42 University of San Diego 6 15 185 1,187 766
43 Willamette University College of Law 7 21 190 1,331 571
44 Case Western Reserve University 5 19 124 1,083 1,098
45 University of Utah 7 13 150 685 1,302
46 University of Pittsburgh 6 17 144 1,194 872
47 Pennsylvania State University 4 13 138 694 1,349
48 Brigham Young University Law School 8 15 214 811 836
49 Southern Methodist University 7 13 182 726 1,058
50 Ohio State University 7 11 206 479 1,018
51 University of Florida 7 16 175 952 711
52 Yeshiva University 7 14 194 550 918
53 William & Mary Law School 8 15 210 662 733
54 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 5 18 121 1,182 719
55 University of Colorado Boulder 5 15 161 564 1,015
56 Boston College 7 15 193 757 673
57 Florida State University 7 18 176 897 614
58 New York Law School 4 9 60 483 1,497
59 University at Buffalo 5 13 115 619 1,000
60 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 8 13 149 682 686
61 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 7 6 145 244 1,057
62 Cleveland State University 5 10 76 286 1,316
63 Washington and Lee University 5 13 134 553 771
64 University of Kansas 5 15 137 660 642
65 University of Baltimore 6 10 150 393 795
66 Brooklyn Law School 7 13 153 498 666
67 University of Maryland 6 14 142 601 616
68 Hofstra University 6 14 109 872 494
69 University of Arizona 6 14 131 641 575
70 Pace University 5 14 85 522 784
71 Wayne State University 6 11 99 572 602
72 University of Iowa 5 13 83 614 615
73 Seattle University 5 12 80 426 775
74 Northeastern University 7 11 119 454 520
75 Texas Tech University 4 14 77 754 445
76 Creighton University 4 12 48 378 906
77 City University of New York (CUNY) 6 9 121 246 565
78 University of Connecticut 5 12 65 402 686
79 St. John's University 5 12 89 327 612
80 Tulane University 4 13 55 610 514
81 Loyola Marymount University 4 12 70 523 511
82 Chapman University 3 13 61 615 451
83 University of Cincinnati 5 13 57 515 556
84 Lewis & Clark Law School 4 10 77 393 548
85 Marquette University 6 7 117 320 391
86 California Western School of Law 3 12 48 496 566
87 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 14 83 509 373
88 Pepperdine University 4 9 54 285 691
89 Syracuse University 5 11 76 302 559
90 Georgia State University 5 11 80 488 357
91 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 6 9 105 316 376
92 Villanova University 4 11 54 398 561
93 University of Illinois Chicago 5 11 64 348 540
94 University of Alabama 5 10 88 344 368
95 Albany Law School 5 9 105 218 388
96 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 4 14 50 492 403
97 University of St. Thomas 6 9 105 275 310
98 Seton Hall University 5 9 68 231 463
99 Santa Clara University 4 10 64 408 315
100 Nova Southeastern University 4 8 54 291 448