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Last Updated: May 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 New York University 30 69 4,144 18,319 9,136
2 Stanford University 34 75 4,137 18,674 6,979
3 Harvard University 29 65 3,603 20,378 6,857
4 University of California, Berkeley 26 67 3,361 15,339 7,760
5 Columbia University School of Law 25 61 3,232 14,085 5,789
6 Yale University 25 67 2,603 16,921 5,649
7 University of Chicago 23 55 2,411 11,850 4,783
8 Georgetown University 21 50 2,261 9,090 5,360
9 University of California, Los Angeles 22 50 2,083 8,337 5,276
10 University of Virginia 21 45 1,906 7,020 4,475
11 University of Michigan 22 41 1,662 7,312 3,728
12 Duke University 20 53 1,490 8,166 3,244
13 University of Pennsylvania 21 42 1,515 5,080 3,408
14 University of Texas at Austin 20 35 1,521 4,258 3,498
15 Boston University 16 40 1,095 6,865 2,948
16 Texas A&M University 15 33 1,292 4,361 3,861
17 Vanderbilt University 18 34 1,297 3,420 3,496
18 Cornell University 15 29 1,045 3,496 3,498
19 George Washington University 12 38 757 4,759 2,358
20 University of San Diego 15 35 958 4,339 1,664
21 George Mason University 15 36 917 4,113 1,937
22 University of Colorado Boulder 16 25 850 2,105 2,817
23 Emory University 15 25 776 1,689 3,452
24 Rutgers University 14 27 822 2,460 2,474
25 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 11 28 719 2,597 2,446
26 University of Minnesota 14 33 768 2,981 1,755
27 University of California, San Francisco 15 27 788 2,744 1,644
28 Northwestern University 13 28 695 2,669 2,053
29 Yeshiva University 12 28 650 2,525 1,831
30 Loyola Marymount University 12 23 594 2,341 2,063
31 University of Florida 11 26 587 2,559 1,813
32 Indiana University Bloomington 10 29 463 2,519 1,947
33 Santa Clara University 10 24 490 2,132 2,100
34 Temple University 13 23 688 1,508 1,664
35 University of California, Davis 14 25 577 1,648 1,974
36 University of Utah 14 23 644 1,633 1,596
37 University of Denver 13 24 615 1,886 1,427
38 University of California, Irvine 13 23 531 1,857 1,599
39 DePaul University 10 25 381 2,205 1,655
40 Boston College 11 28 474 2,357 986
41 Washington University 14 24 571 1,416 1,278
42 Brooklyn Law School 12 18 544 1,187 1,463
43 Villanova University 11 21 449 2,090 1,089
44 University of Southern California 11 23 445 1,342 1,671
45 American University 11 20 422 1,602 1,337
46 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 10 18 447 1,318 1,430
47 William & Mary Law School 13 22 507 1,482 889
48 University of Wisconsin-Madison 9 15 286 1,553 1,853
49 Lewis & Clark Law School 11 24 427 1,671 894
50 University of Washington 7 19 369 1,258 1,409
51 Fordham University 11 17 459 844 1,284
52 Pennsylvania State University 10 17 356 944 1,637
53 Arizona State University 9 21 360 1,432 1,161
54 University of Iowa 11 21 415 1,146 1,083
55 Florida State University 12 19 399 1,074 1,174
56 Southern Methodist University 10 20 406 1,083 1,080
57 Seattle University 11 22 368 1,496 894
58 Brigham Young University Law School 12 19 440 907 1,052
59 University of Houston 7 23 310 1,534 1,095
60 Washington and Lee University 11 15 407 741 1,098
61 University of Richmond 8 15 340 1,022 1,131
62 Northeastern University 9 16 314 910 1,235
63 Case Western Reserve University 9 20 274 1,452 924
64 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 9 15 340 919 993
65 Loyola University Chicago 9 21 303 1,150 927
66 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 10 22 279 1,383 742
67 Seton Hall University 8 20 285 957 1,078
68 Suffolk University 6 15 272 795 1,227
69 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 9 15 284 1,389 597
70 University of Notre Dame 10 17 315 897 693
71 University of Missouri 8 14 290 697 964
72 University of Miami 8 18 232 1,275 722
73 University of Pittsburgh 7 19 212 1,191 847
74 University of Georgia 9 20 258 1,165 621
75 University of Kansas 7 13 260 734 980
76 University of Arizona 8 15 209 905 989
77 University of Maryland 8 13 253 746 873
78 Southwestern Law School 9 15 258 699 832
79 Georgia State University 9 15 260 685 821
80 California Western School of Law 7 11 239 431 1,058
81 Ohio State University 8 15 221 722 867
82 University of Kentucky 7 12 196 534 1,011
83 St. John's University 8 12 274 485 611
84 New York Law School 7 12 192 700 821
85 University of Alabama 8 12 238 443 760
86 University of Missouri-Kansas City 6 13 153 571 1,001
87 Pepperdine University 6 16 156 926 604
88 Syracuse University 6 18 136 965 566
89 University at Buffalo 8 13 189 475 727
90 University of Oklahoma 9 11 233 419 556
91 University of Baltimore 7 16 183 760 484
92 Louisiana State University 8 12 185 384 754
93 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 8 14 157 896 375
94 Wake Forest University 5 14 120 582 820
95 Michigan State University 6 15 169 601 531
96 University of Oregon 5 12 113 600 726
97 Pace University 5 14 140 724 439
98 Willamette University College of Law 7 18 123 736 497
99 Albany Law School 6 13 176 513 422
100 South Texas College of Law Houston 5 12 135 463 657