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Last Updated: August 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 19 44 1,863 6,259 5,486
2 New York University 24 34 1,845 5,294 4,957
3 University of California, Los Angeles 25 27 2,161 2,413 3,644
4 Georgetown University 20 27 1,969 2,700 3,912
5 Columbia University School of Law 17 33 1,027 3,621 4,241
6 University of California, Berkeley 16 24 842 2,717 5,178
7 University of Pennsylvania 15 30 1,143 3,027 2,853
8 George Washington University 18 25 1,158 2,510 3,073
9 Harvard University 17 28 981 3,900 2,298
10 University of Chicago 17 24 1,046 2,503 2,105
11 Stanford University 19 27 1,014 2,536 1,976
12 University of Virginia 18 24 1,001 2,103 2,331
13 University of Minnesota 13 21 783 1,621 2,498
14 Vanderbilt University 16 21 721 1,698 2,633
15 Duke University 17 20 767 1,846 1,932
16 Northwestern University 14 21 697 1,740 2,278
17 Brooklyn Law School 17 17 1,070 711 1,440
18 University of San Francisco 11 23 378 2,116 2,597
19 University of California, Davis 13 22 581 1,750 1,918
20 University of Michigan 15 15 736 1,346 1,346
21 Washington University 12 14 501 767 2,551
22 Fordham University 13 18 614 1,093 1,415
23 University of Texas at Austin 10 16 780 737 913
24 University of California, Irvine 14 17 554 993 1,621
25 Loyola University Chicago 12 13 532 636 1,679
26 University of Maryland 12 15 436 835 1,536
27 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 13 16 502 899 945
28 University of Florida 10 17 450 1,319 783
29 Rutgers University 10 18 436 904 1,200
30 Boston University 11 9 412 388 1,565
31 Yeshiva University 13 11 498 341 1,171
32 Ohio State University 10 13 340 734 1,378
33 Cornell University 9 12 351 798 1,216
34 University of Pittsburgh 8 18 267 1,456 895
35 University of California, San Francisco 12 10 367 401 805
36 University of Washington 7 15 263 674 999
37 University of South Carolina 9 7 319 243 1,120
38 William & Mary Law School 9 12 260 531 1,112
39 Southern Methodist University 9 12 248 353 1,291
40 Texas A&M University 11 8 340 333 772
41 Loyola Marymount University 10 14 256 485 1,016
42 Northeastern University 9 13 202 959 809
43 University of Miami 7 9 95 230 1,915
44 University of Denver 8 14 213 513 987
45 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 8 12 216 530 884
46 Arizona State University 7 13 195 701 808
47 Pennsylvania State University 8 15 256 604 574
48 Drexel University 7 11 217 409 862
49 University of Wisconsin-Madison 7 17 179 772 695
50 Florida State University 6 9 113 334 1,376
51 Emory University 8 12 206 746 545
52 American University 8 12 219 534 624
53 Case Western Reserve University 8 13 182 645 632
54 Wake Forest University 9 13 221 490 547
55 University of Utah 8 12 169 966 352
56 Indiana University Bloomington 8 10 206 293 706
57 University at Buffalo 9 8 240 151 672
58 City University of New York (CUNY) 7 9 210 228 698
59 University of Colorado Boulder 6 8 173 342 722
60 University of Arizona 7 9 233 289 445
61 University of Houston 8 13 178 399 576
62 University of Oklahoma 6 8 164 239 762
63 University of St. Thomas 8 7 217 159 578
64 George Mason University 7 11 132 445 704
65 University of Baltimore 7 12 138 474 561
66 Temple University 7 9 165 282 565
67 Hofstra University 7 10 170 385 449
68 Washington and Lee University 8 5 213 141 457
69 Wayne State University 7 9 132 308 613
70 Seattle University 6 12 115 558 464
71 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 5 6 87 395 688
72 Georgia State University 6 9 143 286 518
73 University of Georgia 6 6 126 160 684
74 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 5 11 100 361 595
75 St. John's University 7 7 134 248 523
76 University of Southern California 5 9 112 245 555
77 University of Connecticut 7 6 154 138 418
78 Catholic University of America 4 10 129 375 319
79 California Western School of Law 7 7 138 159 412
80 University of San Diego 6 12 94 491 317
81 Seton Hall University 6 9 112 220 455
82 University of Kansas 5 8 92 251 503
83 University of Notre Dame 6 10 89 456 300
84 Pepperdine University 7 10 119 271 275
85 Boston College 7 10 138 184 258
86 Tulane University 6 6 115 199 351
87 University of Iowa 5 7 78 210 494
88 University of Alabama 7 8 129 192 269
89 Widener University Commonwealth Law School 5 6 75 99 529
90 DePaul University 5 10 66 317 341
91 Florida International University 5 10 66 256 391
92 Howard University 6 8 91 190 329
93 Stetson University 5 7 82 229 334
94 University of Mississippi 7 9 109 231 190
95 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 4 6 62 241 387
96 University of Cincinnati 4 9 61 267 351
97 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 5 6 82 168 337
98 University of Missouri 4 8 54 332 295
99 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 5 8 102 164 209
100 Pace University 4 10 66 297 222