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Last Updated: January 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 38 69 4,889 17,483 9,944
2 Harvard University 35 61 4,435 16,891 10,066
3 University of Virginia 28 47 3,578 7,768 6,079
4 Georgetown University 26 41 2,764 5,920 6,466
5 University of Chicago 28 40 2,793 6,159 5,765
6 Stanford University 27 37 2,656 6,248 5,262
7 New York University 24 40 2,127 6,492 4,818
8 Columbia University School of Law 25 35 2,559 5,160 4,043
9 University of California, Los Angeles 22 36 1,710 4,825 4,034
10 University of California, Berkeley 19 39 1,557 4,708 3,995
11 Northwestern University 19 35 1,655 4,966 2,964
12 University of Pennsylvania 22 29 1,907 3,183 2,950
13 University of Texas at Austin 18 33 1,346 4,268 2,750
14 University of Michigan 20 29 1,389 3,318 2,435
15 Fordham University 14 31 1,123 3,619 2,340
16 Rutgers University 18 26 1,101 2,261 2,376
17 George Washington University 18 24 1,116 2,256 1,761
18 University of Minnesota 15 23 1,074 1,623 2,490
19 Duke University 15 27 899 2,964 1,760
20 Vanderbilt University 15 22 944 1,827 2,300
21 University of California, Davis 14 20 919 1,284 2,818
22 Emory University 12 17 619 1,713 2,082
23 George Mason University 12 25 639 2,066 1,625
24 Boston University 15 18 802 1,026 1,741
25 Cornell University 14 21 579 1,585 2,009
26 Washington University 14 16 703 1,028 1,790
27 University of Notre Dame 14 18 682 1,151 1,574
28 University of Florida 12 20 584 1,285 1,410
29 University of Wisconsin-Madison 12 16 535 836 1,562
30 University of San Diego 11 20 459 1,664 1,057
31 Temple University 11 14 528 724 1,415
32 Seattle University 9 19 447 1,408 1,148
33 Albany Law School 10 20 407 1,258 1,466
34 Texas A&M University 14 16 520 911 1,224
35 University of St. Thomas 10 17 371 1,709 931
36 Brigham Young University Law School 13 12 582 485 770
37 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 9 16 406 1,014 1,074
38 Loyola University Chicago 12 12 398 475 1,536
39 William & Mary Law School 10 17 411 810 1,095
40 University of Richmond 13 16 410 1,054 798
41 American University 11 17 371 1,207 812
42 University of California, San Francisco 10 21 311 1,287 964
43 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 10 12 341 840 1,193
44 Ohio State University 11 16 424 872 739
45 University of Colorado Boulder 11 14 405 632 899
46 Boston College 12 13 392 653 909
47 Florida State University 11 13 358 495 1,205
48 Yeshiva University 8 16 310 927 917
49 University of Maryland 8 12 349 684 832
50 Indiana University Bloomington 9 13 275 798 948
51 Arizona State University 8 12 219 780 1,214
52 University of South Carolina 10 10 354 218 794
53 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 9 12 267 671 691
54 University of Arizona 10 11 223 741 794
55 University of Utah 8 9 261 446 896
56 University of Pittsburgh 7 13 220 779 743
57 University of Baltimore 9 13 215 695 821
58 Tulane University 8 13 195 667 924
59 University of Iowa 9 11 236 522 852
60 Wake Forest University 8 13 206 759 740
61 University of California, Irvine 8 14 262 547 668
62 University at Buffalo 6 15 175 1,130 494
63 University of Southern California 10 12 321 322 563
64 Wayne State University 8 12 224 832 533
65 Willamette University College of Law 7 9 118 173 1,658
66 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 8 10 229 570 746
67 New York Law School 8 14 202 761 629
68 University of Georgia 8 8 295 325 600
69 University of Houston 6 15 150 764 622
70 Southern Methodist University 7 10 223 396 611
71 University of Missouri 6 12 212 488 576
72 Catholic University of America 6 12 267 390 369
73 Loyola Marymount University 7 12 187 488 608
74 Syracuse University 5 9 139 255 1,045
75 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 7 13 160 599 559
76 University of Kansas 6 14 163 587 534
77 Pepperdine University 7 14 169 633 443
78 Michigan State University 7 7 199 295 622
79 Washington and Lee University 7 7 233 152 588
80 University of Missouri-Kansas City 6 11 126 377 757
81 Brooklyn Law School 9 8 189 250 551
82 Case Western Reserve University 6 10 147 552 454
83 DePaul University 5 14 110 526 649
84 Georgia State University 7 11 159 462 461
85 Pennsylvania State University 7 8 189 256 478
86 University of Washington 6 11 143 500 457
87 University of Denver 8 11 163 307 538
88 Lewis & Clark Law School 8 11 158 387 453
89 Pace University 5 8 56 158 1,148
90 Northeastern University 7 10 133 400 529
91 South Texas College of Law Houston 7 10 177 298 400
92 Santa Clara University 6 10 119 522 422
93 University of Alabama 6 14 140 496 303
94 University of Miami 6 10 104 420 538
95 Stetson University 7 9 149 323 400
96 University of New Mexico 6 11 133 383 373
97 Indiana University Indianapolis 6 9 129 173 557
98 University of Cincinnati 8 10 142 318 354
99 Florida International University 5 13 89 466 405
100 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 7 10 120 390 327