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Last Updated: November 2025

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 New York University 25 55 2,630 11,119 6,869
2 Yale University 26 53 2,451 10,964 4,438
3 Harvard University 22 56 1,883 10,568 4,890
4 University of California, Los Angeles 23 45 2,127 7,710 6,105
5 University of California, Berkeley 19 37 1,618 5,229 4,501
6 Georgetown University 20 38 1,556 4,152 4,698
7 Columbia University School of Law 20 35 1,573 4,900 3,509
8 University of Minnesota 19 29 1,488 3,308 3,979
9 University of Pennsylvania 17 25 1,434 2,709 3,415
10 University of Chicago 19 32 1,420 3,670 2,515
11 University of Michigan 22 24 1,433 2,272 3,204
12 University of Virginia 15 35 1,002 4,605 3,040
13 Stanford University 17 32 933 4,692 2,538
14 Duke University 15 26 1,132 2,711 2,809
15 Washington University 14 30 995 2,794 2,828
16 Cornell University 14 30 1,075 2,860 2,000
17 Emory University 15 23 877 1,927 3,743
18 Rutgers University 15 29 834 3,229 2,498
19 Fordham University 14 27 774 2,495 2,658
20 Northwestern University 14 21 858 1,899 2,314
21 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 14 31 677 3,044 1,231
22 University of Texas at Austin 13 24 803 1,919 1,504
23 Boston University 14 24 652 2,044 2,025
24 Vanderbilt University 14 22 629 1,774 2,016
25 University of San Diego 13 22 674 1,879 1,678
26 University of California, Irvine 14 19 710 1,586 1,656
27 George Washington University 12 26 503 2,195 2,058
28 Ohio State University 11 24 534 2,251 1,587
29 Loyola Marymount University 15 20 631 1,236 1,993
30 University of California, Davis 13 16 675 1,079 1,749
31 University of Southern California 12 21 526 1,500 1,844
32 Arizona State University 8 29 337 2,811 1,267
33 Texas A&M University 12 21 517 1,350 1,751
34 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 8 22 387 1,470 1,954
35 University of Wisconsin-Madison 10 24 333 2,391 1,151
36 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 8 22 327 1,502 1,972
37 University of Florida 11 22 412 1,687 1,349
38 Northeastern University 10 17 334 2,149 1,218
39 University of Denver 12 16 459 1,100 1,284
40 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 6 12 289 2,219 992
41 Boston College 12 22 405 1,365 1,236
42 William & Mary Law School 12 17 502 702 1,201
43 University of California, San Francisco 11 18 395 1,143 1,199
44 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 11 18 434 1,049 1,088
45 Indiana University Bloomington 11 19 361 1,220 1,262
46 University of Washington 8 18 300 1,133 1,640
47 Loyola University Chicago 9 17 454 934 980
48 Temple University 10 17 340 877 1,592
49 Brooklyn Law School 9 16 433 847 843
50 University of Missouri 10 17 424 940 778
51 University of San Francisco 8 15 195 763 1,912
52 University of Iowa 8 18 278 1,146 1,056
53 Southern Methodist University 12 15 335 794 1,091
54 University of Colorado Boulder 11 16 300 876 1,025
55 University of South Carolina 9 16 295 739 1,071
56 American University 8 15 252 742 1,171
57 Yeshiva University 9 15 321 787 716
58 University of Pittsburgh 9 13 278 787 800
59 Syracuse University 8 16 209 878 1,023
60 University of Georgia 8 10 290 398 1,091
61 University of Connecticut 8 15 247 1,059 550
62 St. John's University 7 14 240 524 1,099
63 Suffolk University 8 15 230 816 778
64 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 7 18 189 1,057 732
65 University of Miami 9 16 239 950 561
66 Wake Forest University 7 17 191 1,089 535
67 Case Western Reserve University 9 13 266 495 711
68 Wayne State University 9 14 208 724 746
69 University at Buffalo 8 11 198 875 579
70 Florida State University 7 13 238 497 749
71 Brigham Young University 8 15 231 827 452
72 University of St. Thomas 9 13 252 480 682
73 Seattle University 7 14 227 613 618
74 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 8 16 245 600 537
75 George Mason University 7 14 191 689 715
76 University of Oregon 8 9 234 254 795
77 University of Houston 7 15 176 655 668
78 Seton Hall University 8 12 223 663 426
79 University of Louisville 5 19 129 926 635
80 University of Utah 9 11 205 541 584
81 South Texas College of Law Houston 7 13 214 421 656
82 Chapman University 5 14 120 689 861
83 Lewis & Clark Law School 7 14 177 510 725
84 Drexel University 8 16 188 619 542
85 Michigan State University 5 13 170 510 705
86 Georgia State University 7 15 155 645 601
87 Santa Clara University 6 13 154 669 574
88 University of Cincinnati 6 15 114 666 712
89 University of Maryland 7 12 184 493 488
90 University of Baltimore 6 11 164 398 609
91 Indiana University Indianapolis 4 16 115 852 385
92 California Western School of Law 8 10 162 390 587
93 Pepperdine University 6 12 147 414 544
94 Louisiana State University 7 12 132 517 511
95 University of Notre Dame 7 15 135 539 440
96 DePaul University 6 14 109 606 454
97 Ohio Northern University 5 14 94 643 487
98 University of Alabama 8 10 157 330 458
99 Loyola University New Orleans 6 13 119 504 461
100 Saint Louis University 7 10 154 258 500