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Last Updated: November 2025

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 37 69 4,790 17,449 10,465
2 Harvard University 34 60 4,259 16,468 10,257
3 University of Virginia 28 47 3,506 7,760 6,374
4 Georgetown University 25 41 2,718 5,971 6,631
5 University of Chicago 28 40 2,725 6,156 5,901
6 Stanford University 26 37 2,501 6,243 5,115
7 Columbia University School of Law 25 35 2,487 5,206 4,267
8 New York University 25 40 2,078 6,417 5,073
9 University of California, Los Angeles 20 36 1,586 4,870 4,006
10 Northwestern University 20 35 1,723 4,988 3,207
11 University of California, Berkeley 19 39 1,538 4,556 4,146
12 University of Pennsylvania 22 29 1,853 3,074 3,061
13 University of Texas at Austin 17 33 1,151 4,184 2,708
14 University of Michigan 20 29 1,367 3,320 2,410
15 Fordham University 14 31 1,100 3,618 2,425
16 Rutgers University 18 26 1,068 2,262 2,426
17 University of Minnesota 14 23 1,046 1,623 2,645
18 Duke University 15 27 870 2,956 1,922
19 George Washington University 18 24 1,051 2,222 1,734
20 University of California, Davis 15 20 922 1,291 2,931
21 Vanderbilt University 15 21 845 1,781 2,288
22 Emory University 12 18 629 1,820 2,142
23 Boston University 15 18 780 1,071 1,746
24 Cornell University 14 21 570 1,586 2,071
25 Washington University 13 15 694 1,006 1,906
26 George Mason University 12 23 584 1,859 1,482
27 Brigham Young University 17 14 883 589 1,138
28 University of Notre Dame 14 18 680 1,146 1,593
29 University of Florida 12 20 569 1,286 1,477
30 Texas A&M University 14 16 544 926 1,318
31 University of Wisconsin-Madison 12 16 517 832 1,546
32 University of San Diego 11 20 449 1,642 1,051
33 Albany Law School 10 20 404 1,259 1,577
34 Seattle University 9 19 446 1,408 1,212
35 Temple University 11 14 511 724 1,512
36 University of St. Thomas 10 17 368 1,709 972
37 William & Mary Law School 12 17 490 810 1,078
38 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 10 16 404 1,008 1,169
39 Loyola University Chicago 12 12 385 471 1,561
40 American University 11 17 372 1,232 863
41 University of Richmond 13 16 403 1,054 815
42 University of California, San Francisco 10 21 309 1,285 983
43 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 10 12 331 840 1,198
44 Ohio State University 11 16 408 874 747
45 University of Colorado Boulder 11 14 404 623 949
46 Boston College 12 13 387 653 905
47 Yeshiva University 8 16 295 919 1,042
48 Florida State University 10 12 349 400 1,229
49 University of Maryland 8 12 333 678 858
50 Indiana University Bloomington 9 13 266 796 1,066
51 Arizona State University 8 12 215 776 1,234
52 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 9 12 277 673 756
53 University of South Carolina 10 10 342 229 837
54 University of Utah 8 9 257 446 919
55 University of Pittsburgh 7 13 217 780 785
56 University of Arizona 10 11 216 741 821
57 University of Southern California 11 13 330 361 617
58 Tulane University 8 13 191 667 959
59 Willamette University College of Law 7 9 115 172 1,810
60 University of Iowa 9 11 233 521 858
61 Wake Forest University 8 13 203 756 763
62 University of Baltimore 8 13 206 690 787
63 Wayne State University 8 12 222 832 555
64 University at Buffalo 6 15 173 1,135 500
65 University of Georgia 8 9 300 336 649
66 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 8 10 226 570 777
67 University of California, Irvine 8 13 248 492 641
68 New York Law School 8 14 192 756 618
69 Loyola Marymount University 7 12 186 499 707
70 University of Houston 6 15 148 764 624
71 University of Missouri 6 12 207 487 591
72 Southern Methodist University 7 10 218 395 614
73 Catholic University of America 6 12 259 390 344
74 University of Kansas 6 14 161 587 559
75 Syracuse University 5 9 137 255 996
76 Pepperdine University 7 14 166 633 473
77 Washington and Lee University 7 7 226 152 632
78 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 7 13 153 591 557
79 Brooklyn Law School 9 8 203 254 622
80 Michigan State University 6 7 192 295 602
81 University of Missouri-Kansas City 6 11 127 377 811
82 Case Western Reserve University 6 10 145 552 504
83 Pennsylvania State University 8 8 191 252 522
84 University of Denver 8 11 170 307 567
85 Georgia State University 7 11 154 463 476
86 DePaul University 5 14 110 526 629
87 Lewis & Clark Law School 8 11 155 386 479
88 South Texas College of Law Houston 7 10 175 298 465
89 Pace University 5 8 52 158 1,204
90 University of Washington 6 11 137 500 445
91 Northeastern University 7 10 133 401 552
92 Santa Clara University 6 10 119 522 481
93 University of Miami 6 10 102 420 574
94 University of Alabama 6 13 139 481 317
95 University of New Mexico 6 12 126 403 384
96 City University of New York (CUNY) 6 4 155 103 530
97 Indiana University Indianapolis 6 8 127 163 597
98 University of Cincinnati 8 10 141 318 350
99 Florida International University 5 13 88 457 438
100 Stetson University 6 9 133 288 377