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Last Updated: April 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 New York University 23 56 2,349 11,647 5,924
2 Yale University 25 53 2,178 11,282 3,806
3 University of California, Los Angeles 21 45 1,953 8,053 6,150
4 Harvard University 19 54 1,622 10,677 4,356
5 University of California, Berkeley 18 39 1,490 5,688 3,898
6 Columbia University School of Law 20 35 1,429 5,139 3,271
7 Georgetown University 19 38 1,421 4,155 3,820
8 University of Minnesota 18 30 1,397 3,550 3,640
9 University of Chicago 18 33 1,331 3,913 2,454
10 University of Pennsylvania 16 26 1,313 2,950 3,186
11 University of Michigan 22 26 1,457 2,531 2,704
12 University of Virginia 14 35 847 4,374 2,600
13 Duke University 13 27 1,065 2,908 2,626
14 Washington University 15 32 1,031 3,107 2,400
15 Stanford University 14 33 782 4,861 1,822
16 Cornell University 13 30 1,012 3,006 1,776
17 Rutgers University 15 31 748 3,586 2,290
18 Emory University 13 23 743 2,056 3,083
19 Fordham University 14 28 712 2,598 2,361
20 University of Texas at Austin 12 24 773 2,008 1,316
21 Boston University 13 24 628 2,086 1,903
22 Northwestern University 12 21 699 1,951 1,548
23 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 13 32 539 3,127 1,137
24 George Washington University 11 27 509 2,332 1,899
25 University of California, Irvine 14 21 677 1,698 1,589
26 Vanderbilt University 12 22 585 1,903 1,766
27 University of San Diego 12 23 601 2,035 1,387
28 University of California, Davis 13 19 618 1,223 1,722
29 Ohio State University 12 25 468 2,429 1,346
30 Loyola Marymount University 14 20 561 1,357 1,428
31 University of Southern California 12 21 461 1,549 1,465
32 Arizona State University 7 29 288 2,877 1,165
33 Texas A&M University 10 21 462 1,435 1,394
34 University of Wisconsin-Madison 8 25 282 2,502 1,206
35 Northeastern University 9 18 313 2,201 1,003
36 University of Florida 11 22 367 1,762 1,035
37 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 6 23 316 1,530 1,456
38 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 7 22 253 1,577 1,569
39 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 6 12 245 2,299 958
40 University of Denver 11 17 379 1,189 1,126
41 Indiana University Bloomington 10 20 336 1,264 1,085
42 Loyola University Chicago 9 17 422 966 898
43 Temple University 9 18 324 962 1,391
44 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 11 19 399 1,050 925
45 Boston College 11 20 343 1,374 914
46 William & Mary Law School 11 17 414 728 1,081
47 Brooklyn Law School 9 16 437 895 738
48 University of California, San Francisco 10 20 327 1,208 1,014
49 University of San Francisco 7 16 160 866 2,095
50 University of Washington 7 19 253 1,200 1,202
51 University of Missouri 10 18 382 1,022 645
52 University of Iowa 8 18 257 1,209 948
53 Southern Methodist University 11 16 316 835 929
54 University of South Carolina 9 16 285 770 917
55 University of Colorado Boulder 11 17 285 913 772
56 American University 7 14 236 764 1,147
57 Yeshiva University 9 15 304 827 579
58 University of Connecticut 8 15 234 1,105 551
59 University of Pittsburgh 8 14 247 836 659
60 Syracuse University 7 16 181 914 862
61 University of Georgia 8 11 262 459 820
62 University of Miami 8 17 210 1,027 556
63 Suffolk University 8 15 206 845 677
64 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 6 19 161 1,092 667
65 St. John's University 7 14 201 576 880
66 George Mason University 6 17 165 958 700
67 Wake Forest University 7 17 167 1,085 453
68 Florida State University 7 13 224 528 655
69 Wayne State University 8 15 175 804 642
70 Case Western Reserve University 9 14 241 536 518
71 University of St. Thomas 8 13 224 521 605
72 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 8 16 220 638 473
73 University at Buffalo 8 10 178 856 490
74 Brigham Young University Law School 7 15 185 850 358
75 Seton Hall University 6 13 194 704 418
76 University of Louisville 6 19 125 959 518
77 Seattle University 7 14 174 655 489
78 South Texas College of Law Houston 8 14 201 446 513
79 University of Houston 7 15 145 681 581
80 Lewis & Clark Law School 7 14 161 515 637
81 University of Oregon 7 10 195 305 587
82 Chapman University 6 14 113 705 644
83 Drexel University 7 16 155 636 485
84 Georgia State University 7 15 142 675 500
85 University of Utah 8 12 171 585 429
86 Michigan State University 5 13 148 542 568
87 Santa Clara University 6 13 131 692 497
88 University of Maryland 7 13 171 509 446
89 University of Baltimore 5 12 153 453 533
90 University of Cincinnati 5 14 104 648 600
91 California Western School of Law 6 11 143 422 510
92 Indiana University Indianapolis 5 17 94 871 324
93 Louisiana State University 6 12 113 538 456
94 Pepperdine University 6 12 117 449 493
95 University of Notre Dame 7 15 119 564 366
96 DePaul University 6 14 94 629 374
97 Saint Louis University 6 10 131 298 469
98 Ohio Northern University 4 13 73 627 451
99 City University of New York (CUNY) 5 12 99 473 432
100 University of Alabama 7 10 128 299 425