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Last Updated: August 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Harvard University 67 176 25,414 120,118 43,637
2 Yale University 64 164 22,646 106,278 40,080
3 New York University 52 124 17,198 74,259 34,808
4 Columbia University School of Law 54 112 14,437 49,437 31,569
5 University of Virginia 49 95 13,805 37,698 26,498
6 Georgetown University 45 93 12,918 39,355 26,008
7 University of Chicago 47 101 12,972 40,942 22,320
8 University of California, Berkeley 36 93 9,686 39,813 22,118
9 University of California, Los Angeles 44 89 10,330 32,228 18,916
10 Stanford University 42 93 9,209 33,330 16,169
11 George Washington University 37 85 7,975 29,731 20,523
12 University of Michigan 40 73 9,716 23,860 17,254
13 University of Pennsylvania 39 78 9,222 25,410 17,355
14 Northwestern University 35 82 7,482 30,055 15,194
15 University of Texas at Austin 34 78 7,433 27,553 13,754
16 Vanderbilt University 33 75 6,888 22,546 13,229
17 Duke University 33 71 6,261 20,438 12,330
18 Cornell University 29 61 4,844 15,970 11,815
19 University of Minnesota 29 54 4,526 12,697 11,886
20 Fordham University 28 54 4,718 13,749 9,833
21 Washington University 31 53 4,615 12,078 11,710
22 University of Florida 27 52 4,371 12,862 9,301
23 Rutgers University 26 57 3,791 14,478 9,918
24 Boston University 28 42 4,229 9,478 10,212
25 University of California, Davis 27 50 4,067 9,734 9,387
26 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 25 49 3,485 9,991 7,175
27 University of Colorado Boulder 23 49 3,088 9,374 9,415
28 Emory University 20 48 2,797 9,746 9,223
29 William & Mary Law School 24 46 3,384 8,719 7,209
30 Texas A&M University 24 38 3,247 6,227 8,282
31 University of San Diego 22 59 2,685 12,131 5,557
32 University of Wisconsin-Madison 21 51 2,701 9,478 6,843
33 Florida State University 22 40 2,785 7,165 7,734
34 Ohio State University 23 45 2,713 8,296 6,171
35 University of Notre Dame 22 43 2,775 7,619 6,087
36 Yeshiva University 22 45 2,580 7,564 6,687
37 George Mason University 18 50 2,202 10,512 5,719
38 Indiana University Bloomington 18 52 2,206 9,896 6,103
39 University of California, Irvine 23 40 2,598 5,435 7,923
40 Brooklyn Law School 25 38 2,990 6,152 5,074
41 University of California, San Francisco 20 42 2,466 7,664 5,961
42 Arizona State University 19 41 2,087 7,768 6,805
43 Temple University 19 41 2,079 6,355 5,325
44 University of Maryland 18 42 1,868 7,105 4,804
45 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 15 46 1,556 8,276 5,117
46 Seattle University 16 40 1,435 9,457 4,223
47 American University 16 34 1,505 6,520 6,511
48 University of Southern California 20 40 1,876 5,883 4,557
49 University of Utah 20 36 1,783 4,672 5,851
50 Wake Forest University 18 45 1,616 6,976 4,295
51 Southern Methodist University 18 33 1,877 3,877 5,001
52 University of Pittsburgh 16 41 1,493 6,514 3,990
53 Boston College 19 35 1,904 4,527 3,841
54 University of Arizona 19 39 1,497 5,362 4,910
55 University of St. Thomas 18 41 1,460 6,554 3,881
56 University of Georgia 18 34 1,685 4,672 4,200
57 Pennsylvania State University 17 30 1,646 4,507 4,459
58 Loyola Marymount University 18 37 1,595 4,854 4,102
59 Loyola University Chicago 18 30 1,500 3,671 4,835
60 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 17 36 1,447 5,377 3,373
61 University of Richmond 16 35 1,442 4,785 3,896
62 Pepperdine University 18 36 1,511 5,134 3,229
63 University of Miami 16 33 1,141 5,024 4,823
64 University of Washington 17 29 1,397 3,389 4,803
65 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 14 37 1,185 5,499 3,423
66 University of Denver 18 31 1,489 3,922 3,294
67 Northeastern University 15 28 1,076 4,463 4,372
68 University of Iowa 16 28 1,273 3,033 4,544
69 University of Baltimore 14 29 1,186 3,833 4,132
70 University of Houston 14 32 1,170 4,304 3,610
71 Lewis & Clark Law School 14 32 1,162 4,428 3,083
72 Michigan State University 16 32 1,343 3,306 3,225
73 University of Kansas 15 32 1,103 4,197 3,098
74 Case Western Reserve University 14 34 992 4,199 3,372
75 University of Alabama 14 34 1,160 3,804 2,880
76 Wayne State University 14 34 945 4,649 2,811
77 University of South Carolina 15 24 1,289 2,083 3,378
78 University at Buffalo 16 26 1,086 3,367 2,969
79 Seton Hall University 14 32 1,115 3,436 2,541
80 University of Connecticut 19 24 1,171 2,422 3,112
81 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 13 28 934 3,963 2,779
82 University of Cincinnati 12 36 903 4,550 2,335
83 University of Missouri 17 30 1,094 3,208 2,434
84 Catholic University of America 16 25 1,192 2,546 2,368
85 Albany Law School 11 26 914 2,996 3,072
86 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 15 30 993 3,153 2,474
87 University of Oklahoma 16 19 1,173 1,656 2,943
88 Indiana University Indianapolis 12 27 919 3,285 2,619
89 Georgia State University 14 26 900 2,684 3,168
90 Hofstra University 12 34 873 4,053 1,982
91 New York Law School 14 29 688 3,376 3,165
92 St. John's University 11 23 1,077 1,976 2,571
93 Santa Clara University 14 33 832 3,750 1,966
94 Tulane University 13 27 808 2,864 2,696
95 Pace University 13 23 774 2,253 3,345
96 Willamette University College of Law 15 32 912 2,841 2,144
97 South Texas College of Law Houston 13 22 944 1,917 2,795
98 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 14 25 880 2,419 2,544
99 Suffolk University 9 28 671 2,693 2,705
100 University of San Francisco 13 31 623 2,881 2,651