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Last Updated: July 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 18 39 1,271 5,396 3,397
2 University of California, Los Angeles 21 34 1,376 4,045 3,147
3 University of California, Davis 16 44 1,072 5,157 3,523
4 Stanford University 15 18 863 1,394 3,364
5 Georgetown University 12 22 895 2,535 2,198
6 New York University 17 24 875 2,230 2,275
7 University of Virginia 13 24 1,000 1,963 1,795
8 Harvard University 14 28 707 3,518 1,723
9 University of California, Berkeley 12 18 449 1,572 3,187
10 Rutgers University 11 22 501 1,676 1,931
11 Duke University 14 17 609 1,281 1,714
12 Lewis & Clark Law School 10 15 409 1,164 2,470
13 University of San Francisco 10 19 303 1,230 2,777
14 Temple University 10 15 511 1,392 1,580
15 Columbia University School of Law 12 19 576 1,630 721
16 University of Michigan 11 16 418 1,094 1,904
17 Fordham University 10 18 541 1,060 900
18 Texas A&M University 10 14 410 889 1,265
19 University of California, Irvine 13 14 424 807 1,027
20 Yeshiva University 12 12 393 704 1,187
21 University of California, San Francisco 10 18 403 942 922
22 Boston College 12 19 401 936 783
23 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 11 16 354 876 1,039
24 Pennsylvania State University 10 18 365 849 739
25 Boston University 11 9 412 439 841
26 Ohio State University 8 13 328 517 1,094
27 University of Colorado Boulder 11 14 360 531 843
28 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 9 11 358 566 802
29 Vanderbilt University 8 12 344 626 407
30 University of Chicago 9 10 229 665 707
31 Arizona State University 8 15 198 729 779
32 University of Minnesota 6 8 185 242 1,226
33 George Washington University 8 12 256 507 605
34 Brooklyn Law School 9 10 265 335 603
35 University of Pennsylvania 8 12 209 591 446
36 University of Texas at Austin 7 14 173 632 555
37 Northwestern University 7 10 214 440 505
38 Seattle University 6 13 150 578 628
39 Pepperdine University 9 8 238 294 407
40 University of Miami 7 10 169 332 703
41 Cornell University 8 10 185 409 515
42 University of Iowa 7 10 162 324 691
43 Emory University 6 10 133 628 440
44 American University 6 10 137 279 714
45 University of Washington 5 10 168 272 571
46 Loyola Marymount University 6 11 115 358 731
47 University of Georgia 9 11 182 375 383
48 University of Baltimore 8 8 174 209 536
49 City University of New York (CUNY) 7 9 140 412 469
50 Washington University 8 7 192 147 400
51 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 7 7 121 248 586
52 Michigan State University 7 12 107 603 260
53 Tulane University 7 4 132 49 610
54 Georgia State University 7 8 118 436 329
55 Widener University Commonwealth Law School 8 9 152 251 302
56 University of Arizona 7 8 121 252 442
57 University of Denver 3 3 115 116 574
58 Loyola University Chicago 7 5 114 211 480
59 Southern Methodist University 7 10 98 478 312
60 Florida State University 4 9 54 349 637
61 Seton Hall University 6 11 84 343 496
62 University of Florida 6 12 109 399 316
63 University at Buffalo 6 7 121 167 432
64 Roger Williams University 7 9 102 294 401
65 University of Alabama 7 6 147 87 370
66 Wake Forest University 6 10 80 558 265
67 South Texas College of Law Houston 7 8 136 228 274
68 University of Maryland 5 6 130 144 377
69 Drexel University 5 6 116 208 332
70 Hofstra University 6 8 102 412 175
71 University of South Carolina 5 8 109 169 338
72 Washburn University 6 7 105 208 240
73 Willamette University College of Law 5 8 49 315 357
74 University of Oklahoma 6 7 88 133 331
75 DePaul University 5 5 74 213 287
76 Howard University 6 7 86 190 240
77 Northeastern University 5 8 82 209 239
78 Indiana University Indianapolis 4 11 59 418 161
79 University of Houston 4 9 67 226 268
80 George Mason University 4 9 60 263 267
81 New York Law School 4 10 50 363 217
82 California Western School of Law 6 6 87 90 272
83 University of Oregon 4 8 56 151 357
84 Southwestern Law School 4 6 52 207 322
85 Indiana University Bloomington 6 8 79 129 239
86 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 5 7 54 252 238
87 Albany Law School 5 4 69 47 344
88 Florida International University 4 6 45 164 349
89 University of New Mexico 5 7 72 132 232
90 Loyola University New Orleans 4 7 51 244 231
91 University of Wisconsin-Madison 4 8 63 188 212
92 Syracuse University 5 6 66 88 282
93 University of Southern California 3 4 72 125 224
94 University of Cincinnati 3 5 57 195 171
95 University of Connecticut 5 5 73 120 149
96 University of Idaho 6 6 68 139 153
97 St. John's University 5 4 53 164 204
98 Case Western Reserve University 6 3 76 36 206
99 University of Toledo 4 6 54 184 164
100 University of San Diego 3 5 43 131 248