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Last Updated: May 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 34 69 4,350 18,103 9,232
2 Harvard University 33 61 3,963 17,020 9,317
3 University of Virginia 27 47 3,295 8,131 5,891
4 University of Chicago 27 41 2,649 6,544 5,392
5 Stanford University 26 38 2,505 6,647 4,972
6 Georgetown University 24 38 2,388 5,514 5,558
7 New York University 24 41 2,024 6,856 4,299
8 Columbia University School of Law 23 37 2,266 5,550 3,578
9 University of California, Los Angeles 22 37 1,643 5,053 3,460
10 University of California, Berkeley 18 40 1,403 4,803 3,627
11 University of Pennsylvania 21 31 1,819 3,398 2,695
12 Northwestern University 18 34 1,436 4,872 2,706
13 University of Texas at Austin 17 33 1,250 4,347 2,532
14 University of Michigan 19 30 1,314 3,470 2,249
15 Fordham University 14 31 1,008 3,759 2,065
16 Rutgers University 18 27 1,035 2,407 2,198
17 University of Minnesota 14 22 1,039 1,677 2,126
18 George Washington University 17 26 992 2,421 1,528
19 Vanderbilt University 16 21 885 1,898 2,250
20 University of California, Davis 14 20 835 1,431 2,445
21 Duke University 14 22 763 2,602 1,620
22 Boston University 15 19 749 1,113 1,677
23 Washington University 14 16 706 1,104 1,859
24 Emory University 10 18 533 1,811 1,951
25 George Mason University 12 26 549 2,166 1,535
26 Cornell University 13 22 550 1,653 1,880
27 University of Notre Dame 14 19 682 1,236 1,592
28 University of Florida 12 22 533 1,374 1,196
29 University of Wisconsin-Madison 12 16 534 892 1,323
30 Albany Law School 10 21 380 1,370 1,352
31 Texas A&M University 13 17 491 1,031 1,015
32 Temple University 11 14 518 690 1,157
33 Seattle University 9 21 397 1,490 976
34 University of St. Thomas 9 18 347 1,789 914
35 University of San Diego 10 18 366 1,565 870
36 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 8 17 371 1,079 1,094
37 Brigham Young University Law School 13 14 525 569 765
38 William & Mary Law School 10 16 366 851 1,167
39 University of Richmond 11 16 380 1,114 795
40 Loyola University Chicago 11 13 373 518 1,297
41 University of Colorado Boulder 10 15 392 684 854
42 Ohio State University 11 15 374 924 722
43 Boston College 11 13 386 653 900
44 Indiana University Bloomington 9 15 283 1,040 992
45 University of California, San Francisco 9 22 260 1,352 811
46 American University 10 17 309 1,231 641
47 Florida State University 11 12 317 472 1,111
48 Yeshiva University 7 16 271 968 880
49 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 9 12 266 770 967
50 University of Maryland 8 12 297 736 754
51 University of Arizona 9 11 260 777 900
52 Arizona State University 8 13 203 821 1,076
53 University of Iowa 9 12 264 660 811
54 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 9 12 278 717 586
55 University of South Carolina 11 10 338 265 657
56 Brooklyn Law School 10 10 289 493 652
57 Tulane University 7 13 185 713 919
58 University of Utah 8 9 238 479 841
59 University of Southern California 10 13 307 415 498
60 University of Pittsburgh 7 14 192 822 699
61 University at Buffalo 6 15 163 1,155 469
62 University of Georgia 8 8 288 361 540
63 Wayne State University 7 12 210 860 480
64 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 8 11 217 609 666
65 University of Baltimore 7 13 187 728 701
66 University of California, Irvine 8 13 234 534 622
67 New York Law School 8 14 185 777 646
68 Wake Forest University 7 16 175 855 572
69 Southern Methodist University 6 10 220 420 533
70 University of Missouri 6 12 205 465 560
71 Catholic University of America 5 11 252 369 410
72 University of Houston 6 15 128 790 594
73 Loyola Marymount University 7 12 170 533 582
74 University of Kansas 6 14 150 614 522
75 Syracuse University 5 9 122 284 918
76 Michigan State University 7 8 182 335 522
77 University of Denver 8 12 172 350 545
78 Pepperdine University 6 14 142 670 393
79 Willamette University College of Law 7 9 117 187 941
80 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 5 13 129 596 446
81 University of Missouri-Kansas City 6 11 117 394 675
82 University of Washington 5 11 131 526 470
83 Washington and Lee University 6 8 177 171 529
84 Pace University 5 9 61 163 1,099
85 Georgia State University 6 11 149 484 373
86 Pennsylvania State University 7 9 176 287 400
87 South Texas College of Law Houston 8 10 166 320 387
88 Lewis & Clark Law School 6 12 144 408 416
89 Case Western Reserve University 6 10 124 561 344
90 Northeastern University 6 10 115 428 458
91 Stetson University 6 10 148 334 352
92 University of Miami 6 10 97 423 510
93 Santa Clara University 5 10 103 552 344
94 University of New Mexico 6 12 129 418 289
95 University of Mississippi 7 8 154 215 336
96 Indiana University Indianapolis 6 9 120 206 511
97 Florida International University 4 13 84 473 442
98 University of Alabama 5 13 114 480 271
99 University of Cincinnati 7 10 119 345 309
100 Roger Williams University 7 10 105 384 333