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Last Updated: March 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 33 69 4,147 18,065 9,664
2 Harvard University 32 61 3,744 16,966 9,652
3 University of Virginia 26 47 3,178 8,162 6,011
4 Georgetown University 24 43 2,506 6,348 6,210
5 University of Chicago 27 41 2,514 6,542 5,548
6 Stanford University 25 37 2,352 6,581 5,117
7 New York University 22 41 1,864 6,835 4,479
8 Columbia University School of Law 23 37 2,183 5,549 3,734
9 University of California, Los Angeles 21 37 1,583 5,066 3,841
10 University of California, Berkeley 18 40 1,358 4,840 3,825
11 University of Pennsylvania 21 31 1,695 3,390 2,796
12 Northwestern University 17 34 1,378 4,849 2,808
13 University of Texas at Austin 16 32 1,190 4,296 2,712
14 University of Michigan 18 31 1,145 3,512 2,279
15 Fordham University 14 31 967 3,763 2,230
16 Rutgers University 18 27 995 2,405 2,301
17 University of Minnesota 14 22 1,003 1,691 2,310
18 George Washington University 17 26 972 2,406 1,641
19 Duke University 14 27 771 3,100 1,767
20 Vanderbilt University 15 21 851 1,890 2,292
21 University of California, Davis 14 20 807 1,436 2,626
22 Emory University 10 18 545 1,849 1,983
23 Boston University 14 19 714 1,114 1,733
24 George Mason University 11 25 516 2,107 1,616
25 Cornell University 13 21 532 1,622 1,932
26 University of Notre Dame 14 19 645 1,235 1,663
27 Washington University 14 16 643 1,086 1,735
28 University of Florida 11 22 509 1,374 1,294
29 University of Wisconsin-Madison 12 16 513 885 1,420
30 Albany Law School 10 21 367 1,364 1,405
31 Texas A&M University 13 17 478 1,023 1,122
32 Temple University 11 14 493 690 1,271
33 Seattle University 9 21 383 1,488 1,075
34 University of St. Thomas 9 18 331 1,789 923
35 University of San Diego 10 18 337 1,567 990
36 Brigham Young University Law School 13 14 511 568 712
37 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 8 17 334 1,097 1,105
38 William & Mary Law School 10 16 355 850 1,175
39 Loyola University Chicago 11 13 352 518 1,390
40 University of Richmond 11 16 363 1,107 797
41 American University 10 17 315 1,271 791
42 Boston College 11 14 383 718 858
43 Ohio State University 10 15 364 924 753
44 University of Colorado Boulder 10 15 381 676 883
45 Indiana University Bloomington 9 15 280 1,040 1,043
46 University of California, San Francisco 9 22 252 1,351 906
47 Florida State University 10 13 310 530 1,208
48 Yeshiva University 7 16 257 960 921
49 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 8 12 255 770 1,102
50 University of Maryland 8 13 286 758 773
51 Arizona State University 8 13 196 821 1,151
52 University of Iowa 9 13 251 674 842
53 University of South Carolina 11 10 330 265 750
54 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 9 12 267 717 640
55 University of Arizona 9 11 201 773 742
56 University of Georgia 9 9 282 433 583
57 University of Utah 8 9 230 478 813
58 University of Pittsburgh 7 14 184 822 741
59 University of Southern California 10 13 291 415 522
60 Tulane University 7 14 168 741 879
61 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 7 11 205 605 758
62 University of Baltimore 7 13 178 728 785
63 Wayne State University 7 12 205 860 509
64 University at Buffalo 6 15 159 1,155 477
65 University of California, Irvine 8 13 229 534 636
66 New York Law School 8 14 183 777 646
67 Wake Forest University 7 14 166 797 585
68 Southern Methodist University 6 10 209 428 567
69 Catholic University of America 5 12 240 423 398
70 University of Missouri 6 12 187 464 568
71 University of Houston 6 15 124 789 592
72 Loyola Marymount University 7 12 165 529 604
73 Willamette University College of Law 7 9 110 187 1,162
74 Syracuse University 5 9 114 284 997
75 University of Kansas 6 14 143 617 531
76 Michigan State University 7 8 171 335 566
77 Pepperdine University 6 14 135 670 430
78 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 5 13 127 596 515
79 Washington and Lee University 6 8 188 175 547
80 University of Denver 8 12 154 325 527
81 Brooklyn Law School 9 8 159 261 554
82 University of Washington 5 11 129 526 465
83 Georgia State University 6 11 145 484 401
84 Case Western Reserve University 6 10 124 581 424
85 Pennsylvania State University 7 9 169 287 450
86 University of Missouri-Kansas City 6 11 105 394 653
87 DePaul University 5 13 90 504 628
88 South Texas College of Law Houston 7 10 163 317 390
89 Lewis & Clark Law School 6 12 138 412 399
90 Pace University 4 9 52 163 1,081
91 Northeastern University 6 10 108 420 499
92 Santa Clara University 5 10 101 552 404
93 Stetson University 6 10 142 334 371
94 University of New Mexico 6 12 124 418 347
95 Indiana University Indianapolis 6 9 116 206 573
96 University of Miami 6 10 91 423 495
97 University of Mississippi 7 8 151 215 325
98 University of Alabama 5 13 112 488 279
99 City University of New York (CUNY) 6 4 140 109 476
100 Florida International University 4 13 82 473 433