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Last Updated: January 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 32 64 3,598 15,105 8,098
2 Columbia University School of Law 20 36 2,560 7,181 18,067
3 New York University 22 49 2,271 9,257 8,559
4 University of Virginia 22 41 2,588 6,045 7,623
5 Harvard University 20 51 1,514 11,456 5,190
6 Georgetown University 22 39 1,865 5,968 6,423
7 University of Pennsylvania 20 35 1,699 4,902 5,496
8 University of California, Berkeley 20 35 1,458 5,124 6,046
9 University of Michigan 18 35 1,187 5,451 6,914
10 University of California, Los Angeles 18 37 1,210 4,939 3,297
11 Emory University 16 34 889 3,898 4,806
12 Duke University 16 29 974 4,007 4,075
13 Rutgers University 13 28 989 3,513 4,220
14 University of Chicago 17 32 1,034 3,776 3,391
15 George Washington University 16 28 1,175 2,635 3,769
16 Northwestern University 15 29 1,009 3,209 3,684
17 University of California, Davis 16 25 1,079 2,057 4,064
18 University of Minnesota 13 26 961 2,567 3,719
19 Cornell University 16 24 918 2,956 3,291
20 Ohio State University 15 32 887 3,756 2,284
21 University of California, Irvine 15 24 768 3,085 2,613
22 University of Texas at Austin 13 22 939 1,597 2,420
23 Washington University 14 22 744 1,782 3,152
24 University of California, San Francisco 12 30 558 3,547 2,157
25 University of Southern California 15 22 824 2,093 2,279
26 American University 11 27 519 2,622 3,087
27 Boston University 14 20 669 1,923 2,878
28 Brooklyn Law School 15 23 649 2,712 2,083
29 Fordham University 12 26 665 1,929 2,671
30 University of Florida 12 24 618 2,176 2,431
31 Loyola Marymount University 15 20 758 1,340 2,271
32 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 12 24 532 1,870 2,220
33 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 11 19 666 1,292 2,042
34 University of Miami 10 22 457 2,820 1,513
35 Indiana University Bloomington 13 21 544 1,912 1,935
36 Seattle University 11 23 445 2,652 1,490
37 University of Baltimore 10 14 340 558 3,782
38 Vanderbilt University 9 20 404 2,667 1,390
39 Temple University 11 19 483 1,042 2,169
40 Texas A&M University 10 13 552 606 2,196
41 University of Denver 12 17 374 1,254 2,397
42 Georgia State University 10 19 455 1,094 2,125
43 Southwestern Law School 13 16 537 911 1,749
44 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 8 15 429 877 2,182
45 William & Mary Law School 8 15 270 655 3,138
46 University of Colorado Boulder 13 17 493 882 1,815
47 Arizona State University 11 22 400 1,675 1,429
48 University of Iowa 11 23 394 1,449 1,667
49 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 11 17 341 1,289 2,034
50 Pace University 11 12 354 515 2,694
51 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 8 17 277 1,485 2,129
52 University of Pittsburgh 10 18 390 1,083 1,930
53 Northeastern University 9 20 285 1,554 1,833
54 Stanford University 10 20 345 1,479 1,569
55 University of Maryland 11 18 410 1,114 1,416
56 Santa Clara University 9 24 291 1,827 898
57 University at Buffalo 9 19 221 1,596 1,439
58 Southern Methodist University 11 15 419 808 1,050
59 University of San Diego 9 18 407 1,004 880
60 Yeshiva University 7 18 281 1,195 1,280
61 Wake Forest University 11 12 362 494 1,464
62 Florida State University 9 19 348 896 1,127
63 University of San Francisco 8 15 212 819 1,683
64 St. John's University 10 14 352 670 1,128
65 Brigham Young University Law School 7 23 188 1,656 919
66 University of Arizona 8 15 309 803 1,159
67 Loyola University Chicago 9 15 310 614 1,282
68 University of Utah 9 16 258 800 1,290
69 Drexel University 8 12 299 473 1,369
70 University of Missouri-Kansas City 9 15 240 627 1,465
71 University of Wisconsin-Madison 7 18 225 1,027 1,058
72 Hofstra University 8 19 212 1,232 828
73 University of Notre Dame 8 19 185 1,099 1,063
74 New York Law School 4 15 120 1,272 1,100
75 City University of New York (CUNY) 9 13 204 689 1,106
76 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 7 14 265 556 926
77 University of Richmond 7 12 202 455 1,197
78 Willamette University College of Law 5 6 98 143 1,957
79 Catholic University of America 9 12 281 536 668
80 Capital University 5 19 119 1,168 771
81 California Western School of Law 9 13 229 510 838
82 Washington and Lee University 7 10 273 364 711
83 Wayne State University 7 14 169 832 735
84 University of South Carolina 8 11 211 340 994
85 University of New Mexico 7 17 180 862 639
86 University of Kansas 9 13 235 485 685
87 Florida International University 7 12 166 585 880
88 Drake University 7 12 208 513 718
89 University of Cincinnati 6 12 128 560 996
90 Case Western Reserve University 7 12 182 552 735
91 University of Washington 8 12 167 437 902
92 Pepperdine University 6 12 157 428 886
93 Widener University Delaware Law School 6 14 122 657 826
94 Pennsylvania State University 6 15 152 584 741
95 Western New England University 7 9 174 250 912
96 University of Oregon 8 8 196 278 747
97 George Mason University 6 14 147 825 413
98 Suffolk University 4 13 124 595 739
99 Cleveland State University 7 13 129 470 801
100 University of Louisville 6 13 96 684 727