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Last Updated: December 2025

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 New York University 24 55 2,590 10,445 6,567
2 Yale University 27 52 2,481 10,874 4,364
3 University of California, Los Angeles 24 45 2,245 7,637 6,356
4 Harvard University 22 55 1,910 10,489 4,787
5 University of California, Berkeley 19 39 1,668 5,402 4,334
6 Georgetown University 21 38 1,570 4,104 4,529
7 Columbia University School of Law 21 35 1,622 4,936 3,475
8 University of Minnesota 19 29 1,517 3,312 3,909
9 University of Pennsylvania 17 25 1,470 2,734 3,413
10 University of Chicago 19 33 1,449 3,756 2,509
11 University of Michigan 23 24 1,461 2,282 3,129
12 University of Virginia 15 34 950 4,249 2,892
13 Stanford University 17 32 952 4,690 2,414
14 Duke University 15 26 1,155 2,711 2,759
15 Washington University 14 30 1,013 2,794 2,680
16 Cornell University 14 30 1,087 2,860 1,919
17 Rutgers University 15 29 842 3,229 2,392
18 Emory University 14 23 852 1,911 3,491
19 Fordham University 14 27 780 2,479 2,515
20 Northwestern University 13 21 770 1,900 1,839
21 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 14 31 679 2,953 1,246
22 University of Texas at Austin 13 24 813 1,921 1,415
23 Boston University 14 24 667 2,056 1,975
24 George Washington University 12 26 571 2,317 2,141
25 Vanderbilt University 14 22 632 1,774 1,942
26 University of San Diego 13 22 679 1,879 1,585
27 University of California, Irvine 15 19 721 1,572 1,591
28 Ohio State University 12 24 547 2,289 1,476
29 Loyola Marymount University 15 20 654 1,236 1,806
30 University of California, Davis 13 16 681 1,079 1,733
31 University of Southern California 13 21 538 1,497 1,756
32 Texas A&M University 12 21 524 1,362 1,649
33 Arizona State University 8 28 329 2,648 1,188
34 University of Wisconsin-Madison 10 24 319 2,419 1,203
35 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 8 22 386 1,462 1,745
36 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 8 22 329 1,502 1,916
37 University of Florida 12 22 423 1,687 1,273
38 Northeastern University 10 17 337 2,149 1,144
39 University of Denver 13 16 468 1,100 1,245
40 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 7 12 293 2,219 1,010
41 Boston College 12 21 405 1,318 1,134
42 William & Mary Law School 12 17 510 702 1,117
43 University of California, San Francisco 11 19 391 1,168 1,129
44 Indiana University Bloomington 11 19 365 1,220 1,199
45 Temple University 10 17 345 903 1,529
46 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 11 18 425 1,009 1,028
47 Loyola University Chicago 9 17 456 913 963
48 University of Washington 8 18 300 1,133 1,489
49 University of Missouri 10 17 434 938 751
50 Brooklyn Law School 9 16 440 847 788
51 University of San Francisco 8 15 195 774 1,904
52 University of Iowa 8 18 282 1,146 1,028
53 Southern Methodist University 12 15 334 794 1,044
54 University of Colorado Boulder 11 16 309 874 951
55 University of South Carolina 9 16 302 739 1,055
56 American University 8 14 257 712 1,214
57 Yeshiva University 9 15 328 787 682
58 University of Pittsburgh 9 13 280 787 768
59 Syracuse University 8 16 215 876 982
60 University of Georgia 10 11 324 418 860
61 University of Connecticut 8 15 249 1,059 534
62 St. John's University 7 14 242 524 1,018
63 University of Miami 9 17 241 990 563
64 Suffolk University 8 15 231 817 755
65 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 7 18 190 1,057 690
66 George Mason University 7 16 199 904 742
67 Wake Forest University 8 17 194 1,090 514
68 Wayne State University 9 15 211 754 717
69 Case Western Reserve University 9 13 273 492 657
70 University of St. Thomas 9 13 263 480 658
71 University at Buffalo 9 11 200 875 551
72 Florida State University 7 13 239 495 704
73 Brigham Young University 7 15 227 804 442
74 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 8 16 247 600 508
75 Seattle University 7 14 231 613 574
76 University of Louisville 6 19 137 926 632
77 University of Houston 7 16 179 674 659
78 University of Oregon 8 9 237 254 755
79 Seton Hall University 8 12 224 663 413
80 University of Utah 9 11 210 542 556
81 Chapman University 5 14 123 700 800
82 Lewis & Clark Law School 7 14 179 510 706
83 South Texas College of Law Houston 7 13 213 421 583
84 Drexel University 8 16 189 597 506
85 Michigan State University 5 13 170 510 657
86 Georgia State University 7 15 157 645 575
87 Santa Clara University 6 13 155 663 554
88 University of Cincinnati 6 15 115 666 696
89 University of Maryland 7 12 187 483 478
90 University of Baltimore 6 11 165 398 578
91 Indiana University Indianapolis 5 16 118 852 349
92 California Western School of Law 8 10 164 390 565
93 Pepperdine University 6 12 147 414 523
94 Louisiana State University 7 12 134 510 481
95 University of Notre Dame 7 15 136 539 414
96 DePaul University 6 14 114 606 421
97 Ohio Northern University 5 14 92 621 477
98 Loyola University New Orleans 6 13 119 504 458
99 City University of New York (CUNY) 6 12 118 450 470
100 Saint Louis University 6 10 148 258 464