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Last Updated: August 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 New York University 14 26 766 2,749 1,311
2 University of California, Berkeley 12 20 589 2,144 1,198
3 University of Michigan 13 18 614 1,415 1,075
4 Stanford University 14 17 566 1,487 892
5 Georgetown University 10 18 491 1,176 1,431
6 Harvard University 9 17 370 1,655 1,122
7 Yale University 10 19 360 1,162 814
8 University of Florida 9 23 305 1,479 536
9 University of Pennsylvania 9 19 223 1,176 1,019
10 Vanderbilt University 11 15 322 991 606
11 Rutgers University 11 12 346 596 488
12 University of California, San Francisco 9 9 332 334 656
13 University of Minnesota 7 8 167 552 1,140
14 Loyola University Chicago 7 13 204 558 862
15 Duke University 8 13 211 688 695
16 University of Virginia 8 11 253 646 535
17 Washington University 10 15 258 602 527
18 Arizona State University 6 11 208 711 605
19 Ohio State University 9 10 266 321 563
20 University of California, Los Angeles 7 14 157 627 488
21 Columbia University School of Law 6 13 128 885 393
22 Boston University 6 13 132 515 695
23 University of Denver 7 12 204 522 301
24 George Washington University 7 15 159 629 336
25 Northeastern University 5 12 122 597 505
26 Emory University 6 11 126 410 584
27 Fordham University 7 14 119 618 343
28 University of Chicago 8 12 158 365 363
29 University of Maryland 7 7 183 310 294
30 University of Missouri 8 10 181 280 311
31 Northwestern University 6 11 113 471 451
32 American University 7 11 136 322 458
33 University of California, Davis 6 11 107 513 419
34 Texas A&M University 6 13 140 403 345
35 Cornell University 7 9 114 518 232
36 Indiana University Bloomington 6 10 125 380 285
37 University of Kentucky 6 12 121 459 215
38 Wake Forest University 6 8 108 397 275
39 University of California, Irvine 7 4 117 63 510
40 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 6 9 86 316 421
41 Pennsylvania State University 6 8 111 152 415
42 University of Texas at Austin 4 9 92 299 367
43 Georgia State University 8 6 147 122 247
44 Florida State University 5 9 95 328 282
45 University of Houston 5 10 79 388 267
46 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 5 7 100 145 372
47 Brooklyn Law School 5 11 83 475 115
48 Wayne State University 6 5 98 181 282
49 Saint Louis University 5 3 66 45 539
50 William & Mary Law School 6 9 102 250 168
51 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 7 78 173 324
52 University of San Diego 5 8 76 314 181
53 Pace University 5 10 86 248 183
54 University of Utah 6 3 82 18 391
55 Yeshiva University 6 4 68 101 370
56 University of Colorado Boulder 6 5 81 73 287
57 Seattle University 5 9 55 241 253
58 Temple University 5 8 73 215 178
59 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 4 7 65 197 213
60 Loyola Marymount University 4 6 67 221 158
61 Indiana University Indianapolis 4 7 57 110 298
62 George Mason University 3 11 47 303 171
63 University of Oklahoma 4 4 71 56 271
64 University of Iowa 5 7 67 181 166
65 Louisiana State University 5 7 57 193 180
66 University of Missouri-Kansas City 4 9 55 231 142
67 University of South Carolina 3 5 35 77 366
68 Syracuse University 5 5 56 133 212
69 Villanova University 4 6 66 91 202
70 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 5 6 73 77 174
71 Drexel University 2 5 53 144 181
72 University of Pittsburgh 3 3 66 51 200
73 Southern Methodist University 5 6 70 98 131
74 Drake University 4 7 44 114 236
75 Case Western Reserve University 3 9 33 235 164
76 University of Wisconsin-Madison 4 7 49 156 146
77 St. John's University 5 6 56 63 169
78 Santa Clara University 4 5 41 213 97
79 University of Richmond 4 4 47 63 201
80 Howard University 2 4 13 176 258
81 University of Washington 5 6 57 106 100
82 Northern Kentucky University 5 10 48 163 87
83 University of Southern California 4 5 33 151 167
84 University of Miami 3 5 49 125 102
85 DePaul University 3 6 27 111 209
86 Pepperdine University 3 10 33 223 78
87 Suffolk University 2 5 22 173 158
88 University of Georgia 3 5 43 103 118
89 Michigan State University 3 8 26 179 126
90 University of St. Thomas 4 5 38 102 128
91 Seton Hall University 4 5 33 78 168
92 University of Alabama 5 2 55 19 115
93 Marquette University 3 7 23 188 109
94 Southwestern Law School 4 5 31 85 156
95 University of Louisville 3 5 26 136 133
96 California Western School of Law 4 5 43 79 83
97 University of Kansas 3 6 35 111 88
98 Samford University 4 6 30 99 112
99 Hofstra University 2 4 16 126 151
100 Widener University Commonwealth Law School 4 5 26 81 138