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Last Updated: January 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 New York University 25 55 2,668 11,122 6,368
2 Yale University 27 53 2,493 10,867 4,214
3 University of California, Los Angeles 24 45 2,266 7,654 6,403
4 Harvard University 22 55 1,947 10,433 4,917
5 University of California, Berkeley 19 37 1,654 5,301 4,439
6 Georgetown University 21 38 1,595 4,152 4,505
7 Columbia University School of Law 20 35 1,600 4,888 3,422
8 University of Minnesota 19 29 1,550 3,314 3,990
9 University of Chicago 19 32 1,448 3,671 2,417
10 University of Pennsylvania 17 24 1,466 2,695 3,244
11 University of Michigan 23 25 1,498 2,316 3,084
12 University of Virginia 15 34 971 4,286 2,939
13 Stanford University 17 32 953 4,695 2,408
14 Duke University 15 26 1,158 2,720 2,652
15 Washington University 14 30 996 2,794 2,593
16 Cornell University 14 30 1,095 2,860 1,912
17 Rutgers University 15 29 851 3,229 2,427
18 Emory University 14 23 857 1,896 3,474
19 Fordham University 14 27 784 2,493 2,544
20 University of Texas at Austin 13 24 864 1,919 1,487
21 Boston University 14 24 687 2,093 2,052
22 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 14 31 677 3,044 1,154
23 Northwestern University 13 20 767 1,840 1,759
24 Vanderbilt University 14 22 673 1,829 1,963
25 George Washington University 12 25 557 2,214 2,055
26 University of California, Irvine 15 20 760 1,609 1,658
27 University of San Diego 13 22 686 1,883 1,525
28 Ohio State University 13 25 574 2,305 1,474
29 Loyola Marymount University 16 20 664 1,249 1,688
30 University of California, Davis 13 16 681 1,079 1,675
31 University of Southern California 13 21 546 1,507 1,812
32 Texas A&M University 13 21 545 1,352 1,648
33 Arizona State University 8 29 344 2,817 1,199
34 University of Wisconsin-Madison 10 25 337 2,458 1,237
35 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 8 22 333 1,502 1,899
36 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 8 22 394 1,444 1,569
37 Northeastern University 10 17 338 2,158 1,141
38 University of Florida 12 21 423 1,555 1,235
39 Boston College 12 22 430 1,377 1,202
40 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 7 12 293 2,224 1,014
41 University of Denver 13 16 469 1,100 1,236
42 University of California, San Francisco 11 19 405 1,182 1,119
43 Indiana University Bloomington 11 19 369 1,220 1,178
44 Brooklyn Law School 10 16 513 849 836
45 University of Washington 8 18 312 1,157 1,436
46 Loyola University Chicago 9 17 456 913 970
47 Temple University 10 17 340 870 1,549
48 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 11 17 425 980 1,034
49 William & Mary Law School 12 16 468 653 1,108
50 University of Missouri 10 17 436 941 734
51 University of San Francisco 8 15 195 763 1,984
52 University of Iowa 8 18 287 1,148 997
53 Southern Methodist University 12 15 338 784 1,037
54 American University 8 15 260 764 1,277
55 University of Colorado Boulder 11 16 310 868 933
56 University of South Carolina 9 16 304 739 1,048
57 Yeshiva University 9 15 327 785 673
58 Syracuse University 8 16 218 888 986
59 University of Pittsburgh 9 13 281 787 775
60 University of Connecticut 8 15 255 1,057 532
61 George Mason University 7 18 210 970 744
62 St. John's University 7 14 242 524 997
63 University of Miami 9 17 241 989 551
64 Suffolk University 8 15 235 816 739
65 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 7 18 190 1,057 687
66 Wake Forest University 8 17 197 1,089 534
67 University of Georgia 7 10 268 398 830
68 Case Western Reserve University 9 13 276 494 647
69 Wayne State University 9 14 212 726 723
70 University of St. Thomas 9 13 263 480 644
71 Florida State University 7 13 238 495 697
72 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 8 16 248 600 523
73 University at Buffalo 9 10 198 826 537
74 University of Louisville 6 19 149 933 627
75 Brigham Young University Law School 7 14 223 789 407
76 Seattle University 7 14 216 624 549
77 Seton Hall University 8 12 224 663 425
78 University of Houston 7 15 178 655 623
79 University of Oregon 8 9 237 254 717
80 University of Utah 9 11 211 542 539
81 Lewis & Clark Law School 7 14 179 501 702
82 Drexel University 8 16 193 619 517
83 Chapman University 6 14 123 689 779
84 South Texas College of Law Houston 7 13 215 422 565
85 Michigan State University 5 13 174 510 652
86 Georgia State University 7 15 160 645 566
87 University of Cincinnati 6 15 115 666 663
88 University of Maryland 7 12 188 484 475
89 University of Baltimore 6 11 168 398 579
90 California Western School of Law 8 10 167 390 574
91 Pepperdine University 6 12 152 424 602
92 Indiana University Indianapolis 5 16 116 851 339
93 Santa Clara University 6 12 139 525 513
94 City University of New York (CUNY) 7 13 127 561 478
95 Louisiana State University 7 12 135 517 467
96 University of Notre Dame 7 15 136 539 415
97 DePaul University 6 14 113 606 427
98 Ohio Northern University 5 14 92 622 471
99 Saint Louis University 7 10 157 258 488
100 University of Alabama 7 10 149 329 447