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Last Updated: August 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 18 39 1,309 5,402 3,386
2 University of California, Los Angeles 21 34 1,413 4,045 3,163
3 University of California, Davis 17 44 1,105 5,157 3,513
4 Georgetown University 12 22 918 2,535 2,178
5 Stanford University 15 18 876 1,351 3,415
6 Harvard University 15 28 740 3,519 1,875
7 New York University 17 24 896 2,231 2,271
8 University of Virginia 13 24 1,027 1,963 1,806
9 University of California, Berkeley 12 18 463 1,572 3,149
10 Rutgers University 11 22 511 1,676 1,923
11 Duke University 14 17 616 1,281 1,745
12 Lewis & Clark Law School 11 15 424 1,164 2,470
13 Temple University 10 15 527 1,497 1,568
14 University of San Francisco 10 19 315 1,230 2,787
15 Columbia University School of Law 12 19 585 1,630 730
16 University of Michigan 12 16 424 1,078 1,918
17 Fordham University 10 17 503 997 912
18 Texas A&M University 10 14 417 889 1,260
19 University of California, San Francisco 10 19 424 989 924
20 University of California, Irvine 13 14 434 807 1,028
21 Yeshiva University 12 12 398 704 1,195
22 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 11 16 367 876 1,049
23 Boston College 12 19 405 936 783
24 Boston University 11 9 430 438 870
25 Pennsylvania State University 10 18 373 849 730
26 Ohio State University 8 13 342 517 1,103
27 University of Colorado Boulder 12 14 368 531 900
28 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 9 11 364 566 797
29 Vanderbilt University 8 12 348 612 423
30 University of Chicago 9 10 236 665 704
31 Arizona State University 8 15 205 729 784
32 University of Minnesota 6 8 194 242 1,218
33 George Washington University 8 11 257 477 598
34 Brooklyn Law School 9 10 272 335 599
35 University of Pennsylvania 8 12 218 591 498
36 University of Texas at Austin 7 14 181 632 612
37 Northwestern University 7 10 217 440 503
38 Seattle University 6 13 153 578 638
39 Pepperdine University 9 8 242 294 422
40 University of Miami 7 10 169 332 701
41 University of Iowa 7 10 168 324 694
42 Cornell University 8 10 185 409 501
43 American University 6 10 143 279 757
44 Emory University 6 10 138 628 438
45 University of Washington 5 10 175 272 570
46 University of Georgia 9 11 188 375 395
47 Loyola Marymount University 6 11 118 358 729
48 University of Baltimore 8 8 176 209 550
49 City University of New York (CUNY) 7 9 141 412 480
50 Washington University 8 7 198 146 389
51 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 7 7 125 248 625
52 Michigan State University 7 12 109 603 264
53 Tulane University 7 4 132 49 637
54 Georgia State University 7 8 122 436 328
55 University of Florida 6 12 122 399 324
56 University of Arizona 7 8 125 252 428
57 Widener University Commonwealth Law School 9 9 152 251 295
58 Loyola University Chicago 7 5 119 214 482
59 University of Denver 3 3 116 116 588
60 Southern Methodist University 7 10 101 478 310
61 Seton Hall University 6 11 88 343 490
62 Florida State University 4 9 56 349 634
63 University at Buffalo 6 7 124 167 443
64 Wake Forest University 6 10 80 558 293
65 University of Alabama 7 6 152 87 372
66 University of Maryland 5 6 135 144 386
67 Roger Williams University 7 9 103 294 394
68 South Texas College of Law Houston 7 8 139 228 261
69 Drexel University 5 6 117 208 337
70 Hofstra University 7 8 107 412 166
71 Washburn University 6 7 106 208 237
72 Willamette University College of Law 5 8 50 315 358
73 University of Houston 4 9 70 226 337
74 University of Oklahoma 6 7 90 133 310
75 DePaul University 5 5 76 213 282
76 Northeastern University 5 8 84 209 238
77 Indiana University Indianapolis 4 11 59 418 167
78 Howard University 6 7 87 190 239
79 George Mason University 4 9 62 263 261
80 New York Law School 4 10 50 363 225
81 University of Oregon 4 8 60 151 348
82 Southwestern Law School 4 6 54 207 326
83 Albany Law School 5 5 77 54 351
84 California Western School of Law 6 6 88 88 259
85 University of South Carolina 4 8 67 147 300
86 Indiana University Bloomington 6 8 84 129 232
87 Florida International University 4 6 48 164 368
88 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 5 7 54 252 239
89 Loyola University New Orleans 4 7 56 244 224
90 University of New Mexico 5 7 74 132 238
91 University of Wisconsin-Madison 4 8 64 188 215
92 Syracuse University 5 6 67 88 288
93 University of Southern California 3 4 72 125 221
94 University of Cincinnati 3 5 60 195 170
95 University of Connecticut 5 5 75 120 156
96 University of Idaho 6 6 70 139 154
97 St. John's University 5 4 55 164 201
98 Case Western Reserve University 6 3 81 36 190
99 University of Toledo 4 6 54 184 166
100 University of Notre Dame 4 7 64 200 99