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Last Updated: August 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 New York University 31 69 4,387 18,253 9,000
2 Stanford University 35 75 4,403 18,773 7,046
3 Harvard University 30 65 3,776 20,322 7,002
4 University of California, Berkeley 26 65 3,509 15,061 7,661
5 Columbia University School of Law 25 61 3,519 14,172 5,846
6 Yale University 25 65 2,738 16,418 5,511
7 Georgetown University 23 52 2,615 9,643 5,456
8 University of Chicago 24 53 2,460 10,965 4,641
9 University of California, Los Angeles 23 49 2,146 8,069 5,081
10 University of Virginia 22 45 2,009 6,875 4,634
11 University of Michigan 23 41 1,714 7,286 3,489
12 Duke University 20 53 1,567 8,153 3,208
13 University of Texas at Austin 23 35 2,007 4,708 4,096
14 University of Pennsylvania 22 42 1,632 5,067 3,308
15 Boston University 16 40 1,169 6,873 2,972
16 Texas A&M University 15 33 1,351 4,359 3,797
17 Vanderbilt University 19 34 1,397 3,409 3,507
18 Cornell University 15 29 1,078 3,471 3,497
19 George Washington University 12 38 804 4,779 2,319
20 University of San Diego 17 35 1,015 4,339 1,644
21 George Mason University 16 36 968 4,110 1,926
22 Emory University 15 25 837 1,690 3,600
23 Rutgers University 15 27 882 2,469 2,534
24 University of Colorado Boulder 16 24 909 2,055 2,742
25 University of Minnesota 15 33 826 3,013 1,843
26 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 12 28 761 2,608 2,427
27 University of California, San Francisco 15 27 838 2,684 1,575
28 Northwestern University 14 29 738 2,597 2,058
29 Yeshiva University 14 29 728 2,653 1,903
30 Loyola Marymount University 12 23 627 2,334 2,040
31 University of Florida 11 26 613 2,495 1,749
32 Indiana University Bloomington 10 29 515 2,647 1,977
33 Santa Clara University 11 24 522 2,131 2,104
34 University of California, Davis 14 24 620 1,602 1,946
35 University of Utah 14 23 657 1,568 1,585
36 University of California, Irvine 13 23 569 1,867 1,605
37 Washington University 14 24 637 1,423 1,610
38 University of Denver 14 24 626 1,797 1,206
39 DePaul University 11 25 412 2,185 1,641
40 Boston College 11 28 499 2,357 940
41 Brooklyn Law School 12 18 578 1,187 1,426
42 Villanova University 11 21 471 2,086 1,108
43 American University 11 20 449 1,635 1,353
44 University of Southern California 11 23 462 1,336 1,450
45 William & Mary Law School 13 22 521 1,482 911
46 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 10 17 447 1,312 1,264
47 Lewis & Clark Law School 11 24 448 1,671 877
48 University of Washington 7 19 414 1,258 1,375
49 University of Wisconsin-Madison 8 14 293 1,434 1,642
50 Fordham University 11 16 491 813 1,268
51 Arizona State University 9 21 388 1,432 1,160
52 Pennsylvania State University 10 17 385 935 1,618
53 Temple University 12 20 410 1,100 1,282
54 Florida State University 13 19 427 1,075 1,136
55 University of Iowa 11 21 441 1,137 1,007
56 Southern Methodist University 11 19 423 1,048 1,096
57 University of Richmond 9 15 370 1,028 1,158
58 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 10 16 381 1,016 979
59 Northeastern University 9 16 334 914 1,259
60 Loyola University Chicago 10 21 330 1,135 1,038
61 Case Western Reserve University 9 20 286 1,448 928
62 University of Houston 7 21 308 1,331 926
63 Washington and Lee University 10 15 386 716 1,083
64 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 11 22 307 1,395 745
65 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 10 15 309 1,399 677
66 Seton Hall University 8 20 306 957 1,063
67 University of Georgia 9 20 318 1,202 729
68 Suffolk University 7 15 289 795 1,140
69 University of Missouri 9 14 315 695 939
70 University of Miami 8 18 239 1,279 694
71 University of Pittsburgh 8 19 227 1,191 816
72 University of Kansas 7 13 267 734 954
73 University of Arizona 8 15 212 901 949
74 University of Maryland 8 13 265 752 833
75 Southwestern Law School 9 15 273 699 838
76 Georgia State University 9 15 275 684 793
77 California Western School of Law 7 11 255 431 1,005
78 University of Notre Dame 9 16 264 817 608
79 University of Kentucky 8 12 209 537 1,060
80 Seattle University 7 15 197 959 699
81 Ohio State University 8 14 221 672 796
82 St. John's University 8 12 289 481 593
83 New York Law School 7 12 203 701 768
84 University of Alabama 8 12 264 436 713
85 Pepperdine University 6 16 180 926 593
86 University of Baltimore 7 17 197 877 504
87 University of Oklahoma 9 11 254 418 610
88 University of Missouri-Kansas City 6 13 159 564 911
89 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 8 14 185 926 433
90 Syracuse University 6 18 142 964 559
91 University at Buffalo 8 12 198 429 742
92 Louisiana State University 8 12 200 384 756
93 Michigan State University 7 15 186 593 593
94 University of Oregon 6 13 141 631 731
95 Wake Forest University 5 14 135 577 793
96 University of Illinois Chicago 6 15 126 634 684
97 Indiana University Indianapolis 5 15 119 881 405
98 Albany Law School 6 13 177 513 431
99 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 8 14 191 500 346
100 Hofstra University 7 15 163 590 390