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Last Updated: March 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 New York University 30 69 3,971 18,213 9,586
2 Stanford University 33 75 3,889 18,709 7,003
3 Harvard University 28 64 3,316 20,204 6,939
4 University of California, Berkeley 25 66 3,214 15,173 8,364
5 Columbia University School of Law 24 61 3,075 14,080 6,033
6 Yale University 24 67 2,478 16,915 6,026
7 Georgetown University 21 54 2,292 10,321 6,255
8 University of Chicago 22 54 2,230 11,522 4,849
9 University of California, Los Angeles 21 50 1,983 8,397 5,489
10 University of Virginia 21 45 1,845 7,049 4,557
11 Duke University 20 53 1,477 8,272 3,658
12 University of Michigan 22 41 1,581 7,311 3,900
13 University of Pennsylvania 20 42 1,429 5,080 3,595
14 University of Texas at Austin 20 35 1,455 4,257 3,647
15 Boston University 15 40 1,056 6,900 3,247
16 Texas A&M University 14 33 1,238 4,359 3,943
17 Vanderbilt University 18 33 1,228 3,335 3,752
18 Cornell University 14 29 989 3,493 3,556
19 George Washington University 12 38 727 4,793 2,540
20 University of San Diego 15 35 922 4,321 1,792
21 George Mason University 14 36 874 4,101 2,000
22 Emory University 16 25 804 1,732 3,710
23 Rutgers University 15 28 814 2,688 2,564
24 University of Colorado Boulder 15 25 792 2,103 2,972
25 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 11 28 688 2,607 2,638
26 University of Minnesota 14 33 752 2,995 1,770
27 University of California, San Francisco 14 27 767 2,755 1,816
28 Northwestern University 12 28 671 2,664 2,188
29 Loyola Marymount University 11 23 572 2,341 2,200
30 Yeshiva University 12 28 621 2,527 1,722
31 University of Florida 11 26 561 2,564 1,941
32 Indiana University Bloomington 10 29 446 2,526 2,129
33 Temple University 13 23 663 1,508 1,735
34 Santa Clara University 10 24 465 2,133 2,216
35 University of Utah 13 23 630 1,633 1,685
36 University of California, Davis 14 25 547 1,650 2,052
37 Fordham University 12 21 600 1,495 1,622
38 University of Denver 13 24 566 1,826 1,485
39 University of California, Irvine 12 23 506 1,866 1,728
40 Boston College 11 28 458 2,506 1,110
41 American University 11 20 432 1,659 1,658
42 DePaul University 10 25 354 2,139 1,615
43 Washington University 14 24 537 1,408 1,263
44 Villanova University 11 21 434 2,088 1,148
45 University of Southern California 10 23 432 1,342 1,748
46 William & Mary Law School 12 22 491 1,482 912
47 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 10 19 424 1,328 1,368
48 Lewis & Clark Law School 11 24 410 1,671 953
49 University of Washington 7 19 359 1,258 1,500
50 Brooklyn Law School 11 18 444 1,077 1,190
51 Pennsylvania State University 10 17 350 950 1,790
52 Arizona State University 9 21 343 1,432 1,154
53 Florida State University 12 19 379 1,072 1,253
54 Brigham Young University Law School 11 19 424 907 1,148
55 Seattle University 11 22 354 1,496 980
56 University of Iowa 10 21 390 1,146 1,097
57 Southern Methodist University 10 20 389 1,078 1,157
58 University of Houston 7 23 296 1,524 1,147
59 Washington and Lee University 10 15 400 745 1,238
60 University of Wisconsin-Madison 8 15 205 1,570 1,492
61 University of Richmond 8 15 326 1,020 1,148
62 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 9 16 328 944 1,177
63 Loyola University Chicago 9 21 299 1,148 1,091
64 Case Western Reserve University 8 19 265 1,429 987
65 Northeastern University 9 16 306 913 1,210
66 Suffolk University 6 15 258 795 1,551
67 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 9 22 264 1,382 791
68 Seton Hall University 8 20 267 956 1,159
69 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 8 15 265 1,388 655
70 University of Missouri 8 14 286 707 1,023
71 University of Notre Dame 10 17 301 896 749
72 University of Miami 7 18 224 1,279 793
73 University of Kansas 7 13 250 734 1,070
74 University of Pittsburgh 7 19 199 1,191 890
75 University of Georgia 9 20 249 1,165 574
76 University of Arizona 8 15 197 905 999
77 Georgia State University 9 15 248 686 878
78 Southwestern Law School 8 14 237 671 854
79 University of Maryland 8 12 230 729 822
80 University of Kentucky 7 12 188 527 1,067
81 St. John's University 8 12 264 485 684
82 Ohio State University 7 15 195 701 844
83 New York Law School 7 12 183 689 831
84 University of Alabama 8 12 218 445 817
85 University of Baltimore 7 17 183 861 512
86 Pepperdine University 6 16 145 926 640
87 University of Missouri-Kansas City 6 13 149 571 905
88 University of Oklahoma 9 11 224 419 586
89 Syracuse University 6 18 129 965 595
90 University at Buffalo 7 13 175 475 788
91 Louisiana State University 7 12 178 384 787
92 California Western School of Law 7 9 177 230 913
93 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 8 14 151 883 405
94 Wake Forest University 5 14 115 581 868
95 Michigan State University 6 15 156 601 585
96 University of Oregon 5 12 110 600 769
97 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 7 14 179 508 418
98 Pace University 4 14 129 711 502
99 University of Illinois Chicago 5 15 111 633 659
100 South Texas College of Law Houston 5 12 130 463 701