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Last Updated: February 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 33 69 4,089 18,086 9,212
2 Harvard University 32 61 3,669 16,929 9,039
3 University of Virginia 26 48 3,123 8,214 5,685
4 Georgetown University 23 43 2,436 6,431 6,040
5 University of Chicago 26 41 2,480 6,541 5,243
6 Stanford University 25 37 2,310 6,580 4,769
7 New York University 22 41 1,832 6,823 4,337
8 Columbia University School of Law 23 37 2,141 5,548 3,623
9 University of California, Los Angeles 21 36 1,549 4,767 3,606
10 University of California, Berkeley 18 40 1,336 4,831 3,769
11 University of Pennsylvania 21 31 1,714 3,445 2,765
12 Northwestern University 17 34 1,353 4,823 2,692
13 University of Texas at Austin 16 33 1,150 4,348 2,510
14 University of Michigan 18 30 1,183 3,460 2,171
15 Fordham University 14 31 949 3,765 2,160
16 Rutgers University 17 26 972 2,128 2,630
17 University of Minnesota 14 22 972 1,674 2,286
18 George Washington University 17 26 960 2,432 1,621
19 University of California, Davis 14 20 809 1,446 3,051
20 Duke University 14 27 759 3,104 1,645
21 Vanderbilt University 14 21 836 1,890 2,169
22 Boston University 14 19 696 1,114 1,637
23 Emory University 10 18 516 1,819 1,876
24 George Mason University 11 26 505 2,155 1,477
25 Cornell University 13 21 521 1,618 1,818
26 University of Notre Dame 13 19 608 1,235 1,464
27 Washington University 13 16 602 807 1,641
28 University of Florida 11 22 502 1,383 1,266
29 University of Wisconsin-Madison 12 16 495 884 1,328
30 Albany Law School 9 21 359 1,361 1,381
31 Texas A&M University 12 17 465 1,023 1,098
32 Temple University 11 14 481 690 1,284
33 Seattle University 9 21 381 1,490 1,025
34 University of St. Thomas 9 18 325 1,789 872
35 University of San Diego 10 18 337 1,567 960
36 Brigham Young University Law School 13 14 509 569 734
37 University of California, San Francisco 9 22 270 1,694 918
38 Loyola University Chicago 11 13 348 518 1,340
39 William & Mary Law School 10 16 344 850 1,070
40 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 8 17 310 1,075 1,027
41 University of Richmond 11 16 355 1,108 737
42 Boston College 11 14 379 718 867
43 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 9 13 294 897 1,116
44 American University 10 17 309 1,263 703
45 University of Colorado Boulder 10 15 370 684 839
46 Ohio State University 10 15 357 930 690
47 Indiana University Bloomington 9 15 272 1,040 996
48 Florida State University 10 13 303 529 1,170
49 Yeshiva University 7 16 257 960 869
50 Arizona State University 8 13 194 817 1,078
51 University of Maryland 8 12 270 734 736
52 University of South Carolina 10 10 321 265 731
53 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 9 12 250 723 648
54 University of Arizona 9 11 195 773 725
55 University of Southern California 10 14 292 432 518
56 University of Utah 8 9 225 478 790
57 University of Georgia 9 9 278 433 548
58 Tulane University 7 14 167 741 851
59 University of Pittsburgh 7 14 180 822 692
60 University at Buffalo 6 15 159 1,155 468
61 University of Baltimore 7 13 175 728 754
62 Wayne State University 7 12 202 860 487
63 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 7 11 199 609 716
64 University of Iowa 7 12 200 563 744
65 New York Law School 8 14 181 777 581
66 University of California, Irvine 8 12 223 505 586
67 Wake Forest University 7 14 166 793 579
68 Willamette University College of Law 7 9 110 187 1,282
69 Southern Methodist University 6 10 206 419 543
70 Catholic University of America 5 12 238 423 350
71 University of Houston 6 15 124 790 578
72 University of Missouri 6 12 185 464 522
73 Loyola Marymount University 7 12 161 529 558
74 Syracuse University 5 9 110 284 995
75 University of Kansas 6 14 142 613 511
76 Michigan State University 6 8 165 335 578
77 Brooklyn Law School 9 8 178 271 531
78 Pepperdine University 6 14 132 670 416
79 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 5 13 124 596 510
80 Washington and Lee University 6 8 186 175 516
81 University of Denver 8 12 152 334 516
82 University of Washington 5 11 126 526 444
83 Georgia State University 6 11 142 485 389
84 Pennsylvania State University 6 9 165 286 440
85 Case Western Reserve University 6 10 121 581 410
86 University of Missouri-Kansas City 6 11 103 394 635
87 DePaul University 5 13 88 505 606
88 South Texas College of Law Houston 7 10 161 317 380
89 Lewis & Clark Law School 6 12 134 412 405
90 Pace University 4 9 51 163 1,032
91 Santa Clara University 5 10 100 552 405
92 Stetson University 6 10 142 334 360
93 Northeastern University 6 10 102 420 479
94 University of New Mexico 6 12 122 418 346
95 Indiana University Indianapolis 6 9 116 206 546
96 University of Miami 6 10 91 423 482
97 University of Alabama 5 13 109 487 283
98 University of Mississippi 7 8 150 215 287
99 Florida International University 4 13 78 473 393
100 University of Cincinnati 7 10 115 348 307