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Last Updated: August 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Harvard University 8 23 287 3,981 602
2 Yale University 10 21 391 2,943 802
3 New York University 9 25 383 2,341 848
4 University of Minnesota 13 19 517 891 1,125
5 University of Pennsylvania 11 20 440 1,529 897
6 University of Virginia 9 19 366 1,646 951
7 Georgetown University 9 20 262 1,496 756
8 Stanford University 8 23 293 1,431 516
9 University of Chicago 9 16 366 928 614
10 University of Michigan 11 15 303 1,135 595
11 University of California, Berkeley 8 12 320 988 646
12 Boston University 9 16 267 812 838
13 Columbia University School of Law 8 16 237 1,242 478
14 University of California, Los Angeles 9 16 250 939 539
15 Vanderbilt University 6 13 142 752 863
16 Duke University 7 15 132 885 648
17 Fordham University 9 13 187 561 454
18 University of Iowa 5 10 199 393 489
19 George Washington University 6 15 128 763 469
20 Rutgers University 5 17 108 866 450
21 Texas A&M University 6 15 144 721 296
22 University of Texas at Austin 6 14 107 641 526
23 Emory University 5 10 97 438 738
24 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 6 12 91 522 568
25 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 6 13 127 512 401
26 University of Connecticut 5 8 91 614 306
27 Wake Forest University 5 13 52 799 299
28 University of San Diego 5 11 108 601 208
29 University of Florida 5 10 115 365 331
30 Drexel University 4 10 65 283 579
31 Arizona State University 5 10 74 413 412
32 Washington University 6 11 112 277 294
33 Yeshiva University 6 9 115 303 237
34 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 3 7 70 429 291
35 University of California, Davis 6 8 107 199 314
36 Pennsylvania State University 5 8 99 195 246
37 George Mason University 5 8 86 289 211
38 Suffolk University 3 8 52 470 189
39 University of Colorado Boulder 6 6 75 104 404
40 Cornell University 4 10 80 262 236
41 Case Western Reserve University 4 12 59 388 168
42 DePaul University 5 8 63 274 247
43 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 5 6 87 101 277
44 University of Missouri 5 10 68 301 179
45 University of Southern California 5 8 63 291 176
46 University of Maryland 4 9 47 352 148
47 Georgia State University 3 11 41 392 140
48 Saint Louis University 4 9 59 276 157
49 University of Wisconsin-Madison 4 11 33 482 74
50 Seton Hall University 5 11 42 320 173
51 Northwestern University 3 7 33 367 177
52 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 4 11 53 265 159
53 University of California, Irvine 5 5 84 92 130
54 University of Houston 4 8 45 197 205
55 Brooklyn Law School 3 5 51 232 127
56 University of Oklahoma 4 8 57 198 126
57 Indiana University Bloomington 4 7 50 187 163
58 University of Louisville 3 12 30 378 82
59 Ohio State University 4 6 46 130 219
60 Boston College 3 5 42 318 65
61 University of Washington 3 9 32 236 137
62 University of Arizona 5 5 56 52 164
63 University of Alabama 2 4 56 77 137
64 Temple University 4 4 42 120 161
65 University of South Carolina 3 7 38 175 129
66 Samford University 4 5 34 121 194
67 Albany Law School 3 6 38 123 136
68 Seattle University 2 2 44 173 66
69 Southwestern Law School 2 7 22 226 108
70 Tulane University 2 7 12 173 199
71 University of Georgia 2 7 35 159 101
72 Louisiana State University 3 8 23 242 80
73 University of Kansas 3 5 26 244 57
74 Northeastern University 2 9 24 195 104
75 American University 3 6 31 125 132
76 University of Miami 3 4 34 56 179
77 Loyola University Chicago 3 8 29 182 85
78 University of North Texas at Dallas 3 11 17 295 36
79 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 2 7 24 173 114
80 Loyola Marymount University 3 8 31 132 106
81 University of Pittsburgh 3 7 34 162 63
82 Marquette University 5 5 49 48 85
83 Santa Clara University 2 8 31 190 39
84 Wayne State University 2 7 17 170 103
85 William & Mary Law School 3 5 36 81 89
86 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 3 4 42 45 93
87 Indiana University Indianapolis 3 5 27 84 123
88 University of Tulsa 2 8 21 184 50
89 Southern Methodist University 3 7 27 97 94
90 Syracuse University 3 6 22 151 69
91 University of California, San Francisco 3 3 26 37 152
92 California Western School of Law 3 4 16 56 179
93 University of Missouri-Kansas City 2 5 32 70 74
94 South Texas College of Law Houston 2 5 19 102 104
95 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2 9 10 215 41
96 University of Kentucky 3 7 32 101 37
97 Quinnipiac University 3 4 31 91 51
98 Florida State University 2 6 17 105 95
99 Pace University 1 4 31 51 63
100 Lewis & Clark Law School 2 1 9 18 195