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Last Updated: July 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Harvard University 65 176 24,815 120,358 43,522
2 Yale University 63 164 22,067 106,502 40,019
3 New York University 51 124 16,872 74,432 34,820
4 Columbia University School of Law 54 112 14,123 49,515 31,339
5 University of Virginia 49 94 13,403 37,459 26,201
6 Georgetown University 44 93 12,513 39,346 25,821
7 University of Chicago 46 101 12,558 40,960 22,393
8 University of California, Berkeley 36 93 9,451 39,753 22,187
9 University of California, Los Angeles 44 89 10,063 32,244 18,788
10 Stanford University 41 93 8,934 33,408 15,961
11 University of Michigan 40 73 9,540 23,896 17,311
12 George Washington University 37 85 7,795 29,721 20,235
13 University of Pennsylvania 38 78 9,010 25,406 17,175
14 Northwestern University 34 82 7,333 30,305 15,211
15 University of Texas at Austin 34 78 7,270 27,589 13,610
16 Vanderbilt University 33 75 6,773 22,614 13,216
17 Duke University 32 71 6,155 20,455 12,374
18 Cornell University 29 63 4,786 16,338 11,792
19 Washington University 30 53 4,570 12,120 11,790
20 University of Minnesota 28 54 4,389 12,757 11,921
21 Fordham University 28 54 4,624 13,680 9,773
22 University of Florida 25 52 4,242 12,864 9,226
23 Rutgers University 26 57 3,690 14,496 9,966
24 Boston University 27 43 4,093 9,548 10,076
25 University of California, Davis 27 50 3,943 9,805 9,394
26 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 25 49 3,412 9,997 7,143
27 University of Colorado Boulder 23 49 2,971 9,375 9,305
28 Emory University 20 48 2,751 9,776 9,241
29 William & Mary Law School 24 46 3,313 8,726 7,258
30 Texas A&M University 24 39 3,166 6,304 8,270
31 University of Wisconsin-Madison 22 51 2,739 9,894 6,902
32 University of San Diego 21 59 2,561 12,112 5,564
33 Florida State University 22 40 2,711 7,189 7,750
34 Ohio State University 23 45 2,650 8,279 6,124
35 University of Notre Dame 22 43 2,704 7,629 6,123
36 Yeshiva University 22 45 2,506 7,557 6,681
37 George Mason University 18 50 2,153 10,534 5,667
38 University of California, Irvine 23 40 2,556 5,422 8,040
39 Indiana University Bloomington 18 52 2,129 9,901 6,069
40 Brooklyn Law School 25 38 2,919 6,152 5,066
41 University of California, San Francisco 20 42 2,397 7,676 5,985
42 Arizona State University 19 41 2,030 7,698 6,750
43 Temple University 19 41 2,017 6,354 5,405
44 University of Maryland 17 42 1,827 7,105 4,762
45 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 15 46 1,522 8,284 5,036
46 American University 16 34 1,473 6,487 6,550
47 Seattle University 15 40 1,388 9,442 4,144
48 University of Southern California 20 40 1,852 5,884 4,456
49 University of Utah 19 36 1,729 4,669 5,910
50 Wake Forest University 18 45 1,589 7,004 4,306
51 Southern Methodist University 18 33 1,820 3,908 5,033
52 Boston College 19 35 1,861 4,529 3,872
53 University of Pittsburgh 16 41 1,460 6,487 3,967
54 University of Arizona 18 39 1,461 5,363 4,918
55 University of St. Thomas 17 41 1,400 6,557 3,941
56 Pennsylvania State University 17 30 1,616 4,502 4,445
57 University of Georgia 17 34 1,633 4,646 4,193
58 Loyola Marymount University 17 37 1,586 4,879 4,157
59 Loyola University Chicago 18 30 1,466 3,622 4,815
60 University of Miami 16 33 1,131 5,400 4,805
61 University of Richmond 16 35 1,404 4,801 3,936
62 Pepperdine University 17 36 1,479 5,135 3,226
63 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 16 35 1,398 5,265 3,336
64 University of Washington 17 29 1,376 3,391 4,800
65 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 13 37 1,158 5,513 3,471
66 University of Denver 17 31 1,457 3,922 3,291
67 Northeastern University 14 28 1,039 4,445 4,318
68 University of Baltimore 14 29 1,169 3,867 4,116
69 University of Iowa 16 28 1,240 3,033 4,514
70 University of Houston 14 32 1,135 4,308 3,600
71 Lewis & Clark Law School 14 32 1,151 4,428 3,092
72 Michigan State University 16 32 1,323 3,305 3,042
73 University of Kansas 14 32 1,069 4,203 3,088
74 Case Western Reserve University 14 34 955 4,198 3,363
75 University of Alabama 14 34 1,121 3,805 2,895
76 Wayne State University 13 33 912 4,440 2,897
77 University of South Carolina 15 24 1,249 2,084 3,327
78 University at Buffalo 16 26 1,064 3,374 2,903
79 Seton Hall University 14 32 1,089 3,439 2,590
80 University of Connecticut 18 24 1,136 2,317 3,148
81 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 13 28 915 3,989 2,698
82 University of Cincinnati 12 36 873 4,552 2,277
83 University of Missouri 16 30 1,069 3,213 2,454
84 Catholic University of America 16 25 1,147 2,557 2,333
85 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 14 30 976 3,167 2,507
86 Albany Law School 11 26 884 3,010 3,058
87 University of Oklahoma 16 19 1,134 1,655 2,971
88 Indiana University Indianapolis 12 27 900 3,285 2,629
89 Georgia State University 14 26 899 2,693 3,155
90 Hofstra University 12 34 863 4,116 2,050
91 New York Law School 13 29 670 3,396 3,154
92 St. John's University 11 23 1,044 1,980 2,570
93 Santa Clara University 14 33 836 3,749 1,972
94 Tulane University 13 27 786 2,877 2,694
95 Willamette University College of Law 15 32 896 2,841 2,143
96 Pace University 13 23 745 2,256 3,328
97 South Texas College of Law Houston 13 22 916 1,917 2,766
98 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 14 25 848 2,455 2,496
99 Suffolk University 9 28 666 2,696 2,692
100 University of San Francisco 13 31 613 2,881 2,696