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Last Updated: May 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 New York University 23 56 2,404 11,785 5,905
2 Yale University 25 53 2,227 11,316 3,809
3 University of California, Los Angeles 22 45 1,989 8,047 6,142
4 Harvard University 20 55 1,683 10,742 4,208
5 University of California, Berkeley 18 39 1,512 5,688 3,860
6 Columbia University School of Law 20 35 1,453 5,142 3,275
7 Georgetown University 19 38 1,466 4,035 3,759
8 University of Minnesota 18 30 1,455 3,553 3,640
9 University of Pennsylvania 16 27 1,402 3,028 3,215
10 University of Chicago 19 33 1,370 3,913 2,404
11 University of Michigan 22 26 1,382 2,494 2,585
12 University of Virginia 14 35 839 4,349 2,431
13 Washington University 15 32 1,054 3,111 2,389
14 Stanford University 14 33 802 4,865 1,783
15 Duke University 12 27 1,039 2,877 2,200
16 Cornell University 13 30 1,025 3,014 1,752
17 Rutgers University 15 30 758 3,517 2,242
18 Emory University 13 24 761 2,140 2,988
19 Fordham University 14 28 725 2,598 2,216
20 University of Texas at Austin 12 24 780 1,973 1,315
21 Northwestern University 12 21 709 1,946 1,533
22 Boston University 13 23 635 2,031 1,780
23 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 13 32 546 3,133 1,060
24 University of California, Irvine 14 21 693 1,699 1,593
25 George Washington University 11 26 523 2,318 1,802
26 Vanderbilt University 12 22 590 1,904 1,779
27 University of San Diego 12 23 619 2,112 1,378
28 University of California, Davis 13 19 631 1,225 1,705
29 Ohio State University 11 25 448 2,372 1,290
30 Loyola Marymount University 14 20 580 1,357 1,462
31 University of Southern California 13 22 486 1,523 1,453
32 Arizona State University 7 30 292 2,936 1,155
33 Texas A&M University 10 21 464 1,451 1,321
34 University of Wisconsin-Madison 8 25 286 2,506 1,206
35 University of Florida 11 22 375 1,763 999
36 Northeastern University 9 18 311 2,200 928
37 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 6 23 318 1,545 1,348
38 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 6 13 249 2,332 888
39 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 7 22 258 1,578 1,497
40 University of Denver 11 17 391 1,191 1,169
41 William & Mary Law School 11 17 449 730 1,194
42 Brooklyn Law School 9 16 479 928 786
43 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 11 19 404 1,052 974
44 Loyola University Chicago 9 17 428 966 875
45 Indiana University Bloomington 10 20 341 1,265 1,027
46 Boston College 11 19 350 1,353 859
47 Temple University 9 18 325 925 1,355
48 University of San Francisco 7 16 162 872 2,212
49 University of California, San Francisco 10 20 333 1,206 1,014
50 University of Washington 7 19 249 1,200 1,181
51 University of Missouri 10 18 384 1,020 640
52 University of Iowa 8 18 262 1,201 958
53 Southern Methodist University 11 16 313 846 892
54 University of Colorado Boulder 11 17 289 914 774
55 University of South Carolina 9 16 289 769 897
56 American University 7 14 230 733 1,075
57 Yeshiva University 9 15 309 827 550
58 University of Georgia 9 12 303 476 889
59 University of Connecticut 9 15 237 1,108 546
60 University of Pittsburgh 8 14 248 836 649
61 Syracuse University 7 16 178 911 820
62 University of Miami 8 17 214 1,032 508
63 Suffolk University 8 15 209 848 651
64 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 6 18 167 1,058 651
65 St. John's University 7 14 205 567 842
66 Florida State University 7 13 240 492 669
67 Wake Forest University 7 17 170 1,121 439
68 George Mason University 6 16 161 915 663
69 Wayne State University 8 14 182 774 655
70 University of St. Thomas 8 13 233 528 611
71 University at Buffalo 8 10 184 859 496
72 Case Western Reserve University 9 14 243 532 485
73 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 8 16 224 639 470
74 Seton Hall University 6 13 199 705 432
75 Brigham Young University Law School 7 15 188 850 347
76 University of Houston 7 15 148 681 665
77 University of Louisville 6 19 128 949 498
78 South Texas College of Law Houston 8 14 208 447 523
79 Seattle University 7 14 175 655 461
80 Lewis & Clark Law School 7 14 163 524 635
81 DePaul University 6 14 132 821 477
82 Chapman University 6 14 114 731 612
83 University of Oregon 7 10 198 306 569
84 Georgia State University 7 15 145 676 484
85 Michigan State University 5 13 151 541 568
86 Drexel University 7 16 157 636 445
87 University of Utah 8 12 171 585 407
88 University of Maryland 7 13 176 509 432
89 Santa Clara University 5 13 123 692 471
90 University of Cincinnati 5 14 105 648 594
91 University of Baltimore 5 12 153 453 518
92 California Western School of Law 7 11 146 422 509
93 Indiana University Indianapolis 5 17 95 877 306
94 University of Notre Dame 7 15 123 565 379
95 Louisiana State University 6 12 114 538 444
96 Pepperdine University 6 13 119 452 477
97 Saint Louis University 5 10 127 299 462
98 University of Richmond 6 12 130 352 394
99 Florida International University 6 10 85 425 551
100 University of Alabama 7 10 129 299 437