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Last Updated: September 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 New York University 32 69 4,466 18,310 8,760
2 Stanford University 35 75 4,511 18,662 6,787
3 Harvard University 30 65 3,864 20,345 6,894
4 University of California, Berkeley 26 65 3,576 14,932 7,322
5 Columbia University School of Law 26 61 3,584 14,157 5,674
6 Yale University 25 65 2,773 16,417 5,347
7 Georgetown University 23 52 2,656 9,680 5,230
8 University of Chicago 24 53 2,504 10,989 4,653
9 University of California, Los Angeles 23 49 2,198 8,060 4,949
10 University of Virginia 22 45 2,052 6,870 4,500
11 University of Michigan 23 41 1,774 7,309 3,399
12 Duke University 21 53 1,599 8,145 3,105
13 University of Texas at Austin 23 35 2,049 4,719 4,020
14 University of Pennsylvania 22 42 1,680 5,071 3,164
15 Boston University 16 40 1,189 6,865 2,831
16 Texas A&M University 15 33 1,363 4,351 3,691
17 Vanderbilt University 19 34 1,422 3,409 3,386
18 Cornell University 15 29 1,135 3,459 3,398
19 George Washington University 12 38 819 4,787 2,233
20 University of San Diego 17 35 1,027 4,341 1,594
21 George Mason University 16 36 985 4,119 1,891
22 University of Colorado Boulder 17 24 958 2,055 2,687
23 Emory University 16 24 852 1,655 3,507
24 Rutgers University 16 27 897 2,459 2,448
25 University of Minnesota 15 33 835 2,991 1,781
26 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 12 28 769 2,593 2,364
27 University of California, San Francisco 15 27 845 2,638 1,528
28 Northwestern University 14 28 742 2,606 1,984
29 Yeshiva University 13 28 723 2,525 1,796
30 Loyola Marymount University 12 23 640 2,341 1,987
31 University of Florida 12 26 628 2,492 1,724
32 Indiana University Bloomington 10 29 515 2,645 1,948
33 Santa Clara University 11 24 532 2,131 2,075
34 University of California, Davis 15 24 640 1,597 1,863
35 University of Utah 14 23 678 1,564 1,521
36 University of California, Irvine 13 23 579 1,868 1,570
37 Washington University 15 24 651 1,423 1,590
38 University of Denver 14 24 633 1,797 1,187
39 DePaul University 11 25 424 2,205 1,594
40 Boston College 11 28 510 2,357 913
41 Brooklyn Law School 12 18 591 1,187 1,399
42 Villanova University 11 21 480 2,086 1,088
43 American University 11 20 459 1,645 1,290
44 University of Southern California 11 23 470 1,336 1,409
45 William & Mary Law School 13 22 538 1,525 903
46 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 10 17 461 1,299 1,261
47 University of Wisconsin-Madison 9 14 315 1,484 1,645
48 Lewis & Clark Law School 11 24 452 1,672 828
49 University of Washington 7 19 424 1,258 1,330
50 Fordham University 11 16 508 816 1,235
51 Arizona State University 9 21 391 1,414 1,174
52 Pennsylvania State University 10 17 393 935 1,542
53 Temple University 12 20 413 1,100 1,234
54 University of Iowa 12 21 454 1,137 964
55 Southern Methodist University 11 20 435 1,083 1,065
56 Florida State University 12 19 418 1,075 1,067
57 University of Richmond 9 15 387 1,033 1,149
58 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 10 16 387 1,016 950
59 Northeastern University 9 16 338 914 1,218
60 University of Houston 7 21 313 1,331 921
61 Case Western Reserve University 9 20 290 1,448 899
62 Washington and Lee University 10 15 399 716 1,027
63 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 11 22 312 1,395 730
64 Loyola University Chicago 9 21 320 1,154 911
65 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 10 15 313 1,396 664
66 Seton Hall University 8 20 316 957 1,040
67 University of Georgia 9 20 326 1,201 717
68 Suffolk University 7 15 294 796 1,089
69 University of Missouri 9 14 323 704 901
70 University of Miami 8 18 246 1,283 653
71 University of Pittsburgh 8 18 234 1,162 763
72 University of Maryland 8 14 276 768 869
73 University of Kansas 7 13 271 734 887
74 Southwestern Law School 10 15 277 699 825
75 University of Arizona 9 14 214 869 908
76 Georgia State University 9 15 277 684 779
77 University of Notre Dame 9 16 267 825 606
78 California Western School of Law 7 11 262 431 972
79 Seattle University 7 15 203 959 684
80 University of Kentucky 8 12 213 535 1,006
81 Ohio State University 8 14 226 675 780
82 St. John's University 8 12 299 485 581
83 University of Alabama 9 12 270 436 695
84 Pepperdine University 6 16 187 926 627
85 New York Law School 8 12 207 700 729
86 University of Baltimore 8 17 202 885 521
87 Michigan State University 8 15 211 593 658
88 University of Oklahoma 9 11 257 418 592
89 University of Missouri-Kansas City 6 13 162 565 883
90 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 8 14 192 900 428
91 Syracuse University 6 18 142 965 543
92 Louisiana State University 8 12 208 384 737
93 University at Buffalo 8 12 201 429 723
94 University of Oregon 6 13 151 635 768
95 Wake Forest University 5 14 127 572 735
96 University of Illinois Chicago 6 15 128 635 657
97 Indiana University Indianapolis 5 15 120 874 390
98 Albany Law School 6 13 181 513 415
99 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 8 14 195 513 347
100 University of South Carolina 7 12 212 391 356