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Last Updated: July 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Yale University 20 54 2,087 11,237 8,403
2 Harvard University 23 57 1,765 11,846 6,315
3 New York University 17 50 1,457 8,596 6,994
4 University of Chicago 19 42 1,255 6,458 3,467
5 University of California, Berkeley 14 35 1,208 4,374 4,109
6 Georgetown University 17 34 1,189 4,325 3,933
7 University of Michigan 14 31 1,036 3,568 5,327
8 George Washington University 14 43 896 5,040 3,339
9 Columbia University School of Law 17 32 1,079 3,800 3,041
10 University of Virginia 17 36 1,058 4,120 2,735
11 Duke University 12 31 929 3,631 2,643
12 University of California, Los Angeles 15 34 810 4,492 2,394
13 Stanford University 15 23 752 2,386 3,462
14 University of Pennsylvania 14 28 656 2,450 2,286
15 American University 10 24 426 2,620 3,149
16 Cornell University 13 21 866 1,598 1,744
17 Temple University 11 26 487 2,147 1,857
18 Northwestern University 11 24 430 2,221 1,866
19 Arizona State University 8 22 398 1,939 2,239
20 Fordham University 11 22 542 1,899 1,377
21 Boston University 9 22 452 1,385 1,653
22 University of Texas at Austin 9 28 360 2,305 1,069
23 University of Notre Dame 9 24 375 1,909 1,339
24 Vanderbilt University 10 20 465 1,280 1,408
25 Texas A&M University 10 21 406 1,615 1,300
26 Washington University 10 18 316 1,303 1,760
27 University of California, San Francisco 8 21 274 1,703 1,309
28 University of California, Irvine 8 19 345 1,220 1,371
29 Emory University 7 15 253 749 2,178
30 Rutgers University 8 17 264 1,562 1,208
31 University of Southern California 9 18 294 1,350 1,021
32 Loyola University Chicago 11 15 326 753 1,245
33 University of Miami 7 19 198 1,358 1,186
34 University of Minnesota 9 15 270 728 1,393
35 Indiana University Bloomington 8 18 233 1,000 1,307
36 University of Wisconsin-Madison 7 14 168 1,166 1,174
37 George Mason University 6 19 141 1,485 778
38 University of Utah 7 13 170 684 1,332
39 University of Richmond 10 12 266 463 1,052
40 University of San Diego 6 15 193 1,187 742
41 Willamette University College of Law 7 21 195 1,330 555
42 Pennsylvania State University 5 14 160 738 1,250
43 University of California, Davis 9 15 252 701 792
44 Southern Methodist University 8 13 208 736 963
45 Case Western Reserve University 6 19 134 1,075 1,006
46 University of Pittsburgh 6 17 154 1,182 802
47 University of Florida 7 16 194 982 726
48 Florida State University 8 18 194 897 761
49 William & Mary Law School 9 15 233 662 778
50 Ohio State University 8 11 230 478 940
51 Yeshiva University 7 14 199 549 965
52 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 5 18 130 1,182 669
53 University of Maryland 6 16 176 962 639
54 Boston College 7 14 205 696 675
55 University of Colorado Boulder 5 15 170 562 927
56 New York Law School 4 9 61 483 1,475
57 University of Baltimore 8 10 183 403 829
58 Cleveland State University 5 10 84 286 1,366
59 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 8 13 158 707 615
60 University at Buffalo 6 13 117 607 861
61 Brooklyn Law School 7 13 181 501 641
62 University of Kansas 6 15 147 660 635
63 Washington and Lee University 5 12 135 503 692
64 University of Arizona 6 14 139 641 539
65 Hofstra University 5 14 107 872 464
66 Tulane University 5 15 101 691 635
67 Pace University 5 14 95 522 764
68 Seattle University 6 12 112 499 703
69 Wayne State University 6 11 111 572 586
70 University of Iowa 5 13 82 599 575
71 Northeastern University 7 11 126 455 483
72 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 6 6 114 189 747
73 Creighton University 4 12 48 371 883
74 University of Connecticut 6 12 81 390 676
75 Loyola Marymount University 4 13 84 567 476
76 Texas Tech University 4 13 68 690 393
77 Marquette University 6 7 130 320 415
78 St. John's University 5 12 95 328 557
79 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 5 14 97 522 351
80 Chapman University 3 13 64 615 398
81 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 7 10 119 333 373
82 California Western School of Law 3 12 49 496 563
83 Pepperdine University 4 9 59 285 689
84 Lewis & Clark Law School 5 10 79 353 529
85 Georgia State University 5 11 87 488 343
86 DePaul University 5 11 67 497 419
87 University of Cincinnati 5 13 61 516 417
88 Syracuse University 4 11 78 298 518
89 University of Illinois Chicago 5 11 68 345 500
90 Albany Law School 5 9 111 218 408
91 University of Alabama 5 10 97 347 354
92 Villanova University 4 11 51 398 513
93 University of St. Thomas 6 9 113 275 296
94 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 4 14 51 490 368
95 Seton Hall University 5 9 73 206 463
96 Santa Clara University 4 10 70 413 282
97 Nova Southeastern University 4 8 55 291 436
98 St. Thomas University 5 9 67 378 299
99 University of Washington 4 8 68 196 449
100 University of Georgia 5 11 63 323 328