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Last Updated: March 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 New York University 22 56 2,267 11,675 6,180
2 Yale University 24 53 2,145 11,374 4,115
3 University of California, Los Angeles 21 45 1,912 8,034 6,264
4 Harvard University 19 55 1,629 10,881 4,615
5 University of California, Berkeley 17 40 1,444 5,728 4,081
6 Georgetown University 19 38 1,434 4,331 4,190
7 Columbia University School of Law 19 35 1,387 5,142 3,400
8 University of Minnesota 17 30 1,353 3,552 3,759
9 University of Chicago 18 33 1,290 3,913 2,492
10 University of Pennsylvania 16 26 1,295 2,969 3,146
11 University of Michigan 22 26 1,387 2,501 2,828
12 University of Virginia 14 35 840 4,428 2,751
13 Duke University 13 27 1,036 2,909 2,673
14 Washington University 14 31 999 3,022 2,492
15 Stanford University 13 32 733 4,725 1,768
16 Cornell University 13 30 969 3,011 1,803
17 Emory University 13 24 756 2,174 3,358
18 Rutgers University 15 29 720 3,379 2,333
19 Fordham University 14 28 701 2,600 2,467
20 University of Texas at Austin 12 24 753 1,974 1,387
21 Northwestern University 12 21 678 1,945 1,609
22 Boston University 13 23 605 2,035 1,870
23 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 12 31 524 3,079 1,203
24 George Washington University 11 26 497 2,302 1,951
25 Vanderbilt University 12 22 576 1,904 1,859
26 University of California, Irvine 14 21 660 1,645 1,597
27 University of San Diego 12 23 596 2,106 1,451
28 University of California, Davis 13 19 610 1,224 1,790
29 Ohio State University 11 25 448 2,382 1,468
30 Loyola Marymount University 14 20 551 1,357 1,533
31 University of Wisconsin-Madison 9 27 313 2,698 1,275
32 University of Southern California 12 22 450 1,588 1,541
33 Arizona State University 7 29 282 2,878 1,173
34 Texas A&M University 10 21 453 1,460 1,534
35 Northeastern University 9 18 304 2,201 1,044
36 University of Florida 11 22 350 1,762 1,136
37 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 6 23 305 1,512 1,556
38 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 7 22 245 1,578 1,693
39 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 6 12 240 2,276 973
40 Indiana University Bloomington 10 21 345 1,416 1,162
41 William & Mary Law School 11 17 446 735 1,218
42 University of Denver 11 17 375 1,190 1,162
43 Boston College 11 20 341 1,379 1,024
44 Loyola University Chicago 9 17 416 966 972
45 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 11 19 390 1,053 962
46 Temple University 9 17 305 876 1,477
47 University of California, San Francisco 9 20 322 1,206 1,062
48 Brooklyn Law School 8 16 420 895 767
49 University of San Francisco 7 16 158 866 2,124
50 University of Washington 7 19 242 1,200 1,296
51 University of Missouri 9 18 364 1,020 647
52 University of Iowa 8 18 254 1,201 1,000
53 Southern Methodist University 11 16 299 844 985
54 University of South Carolina 9 16 279 770 968
55 University of Colorado Boulder 11 17 280 922 797
56 American University 7 14 228 756 1,187
57 Yeshiva University 9 15 297 828 628
58 University of Georgia 9 11 291 457 924
59 University of Connecticut 8 15 231 1,112 555
60 University of Pittsburgh 8 14 244 835 692
61 Syracuse University 7 16 181 914 906
62 Suffolk University 8 15 202 847 731
63 University of Miami 8 17 205 1,028 532
64 St. John's University 7 14 196 576 951
65 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 6 18 162 1,058 655
66 George Mason University 6 16 159 916 700
67 Case Western Reserve University 9 14 237 538 589
68 Florida State University 7 13 219 527 693
69 Wake Forest University 7 17 162 1,085 478
70 Wayne State University 8 14 171 774 680
71 University of St. Thomas 8 13 219 528 618
72 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 8 16 215 638 496
73 University at Buffalo 8 10 172 856 509
74 Brigham Young University Law School 7 15 182 850 359
75 Seton Hall University 6 13 189 705 421
76 University of Louisville 5 19 121 948 553
77 University of Houston 7 15 141 688 679
78 Seattle University 7 14 172 655 503
79 South Texas College of Law Houston 7 14 196 453 548
80 Lewis & Clark Law School 7 14 159 524 642
81 University of Oregon 7 10 192 306 637
82 Chapman University 6 14 111 705 692
83 University of Utah 8 12 171 585 474
84 Drexel University 7 16 155 636 501
85 Georgia State University 7 15 139 671 528
86 Michigan State University 5 13 147 541 579
87 University of Baltimore 6 12 151 453 592
88 University of Maryland 7 13 167 515 441
89 Santa Clara University 5 13 121 692 491
90 University of Cincinnati 5 14 103 648 569
91 Indiana University Indianapolis 4 17 93 883 341
92 Pepperdine University 6 13 125 472 507
93 Louisiana State University 6 12 110 538 486
94 California Western School of Law 6 10 121 392 533
95 University of Notre Dame 6 15 113 564 393
96 DePaul University 6 14 92 642 414
97 Loyola University New Orleans 5 13 102 522 438
98 University of Illinois Chicago 5 12 100 437 472
99 Ohio Northern University 4 13 72 629 440
100 Saint Louis University 5 10 117 299 486