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Last Updated: September 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Harvard University 24 61 1,916 12,278 3,771
2 Yale University 21 44 1,624 10,466 3,075
3 New York University 19 48 1,445 8,563 3,458
4 University of Chicago 17 36 1,321 6,684 1,838
5 Stanford University 21 37 1,451 5,045 2,545
6 University of Virginia 17 34 1,508 3,742 2,848
7 University of California, Los Angeles 20 32 1,446 3,840 2,657
8 Columbia University School of Law 16 33 781 5,167 1,423
9 Fordham University 19 29 1,043 3,237 1,774
10 University of Pennsylvania 15 30 846 2,976 2,236
11 George Washington University 11 28 834 3,181 2,113
12 Georgetown University 14 28 757 2,358 1,844
13 University of California, Berkeley 13 29 740 2,503 1,767
14 University of Texas at Austin 12 25 766 2,147 1,099
15 Brooklyn Law School 11 34 490 3,478 1,146
16 Cornell University 12 26 501 2,660 1,387
17 Northwestern University 15 21 759 1,622 1,024
18 University of Michigan 15 22 631 1,753 1,486
19 Washington University 11 25 586 2,133 1,198
20 Duke University 9 27 428 2,155 1,431
21 Boston University 11 24 531 1,896 997
22 University of Florida 11 22 462 1,583 1,574
23 Vanderbilt University 10 22 379 2,057 1,167
24 Rutgers University 11 21 480 1,417 798
25 Arizona State University 8 23 325 1,745 1,178
26 University of Georgia 12 19 448 954 822
27 University of South Carolina 9 24 269 1,824 838
28 Yeshiva University 11 16 470 887 738
29 University of California, Irvine 11 21 330 1,235 1,043
30 Ohio State University 11 19 317 1,302 687
31 University of Colorado Boulder 9 9 294 367 1,586
32 University of Southern California 10 17 291 1,112 869
33 St. John's University 5 8 463 382 741
34 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 8 20 225 1,486 780
35 Wake Forest University 11 15 299 681 1,085
36 University of San Diego 9 20 238 1,332 654
37 Emory University 7 21 207 1,207 830
38 University of Minnesota 9 17 254 924 510
39 Florida State University 9 12 298 552 634
40 Texas A&M University 8 14 256 590 648
41 Suffolk University 7 18 133 1,203 568
42 University of Alabama 8 8 228 157 1,006
43 Louisiana State University 9 16 206 728 591
44 University of Iowa 8 9 199 250 1,005
45 University of Richmond 7 14 194 685 592
46 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 9 11 199 538 687
47 Santa Clara University 6 14 213 756 425
48 University of California, San Francisco 8 15 194 867 390
49 University of Maryland 7 13 177 560 703
50 Georgia State University 7 13 170 707 598
51 George Mason University 8 15 154 771 575
52 Indiana University Bloomington 8 14 184 565 520
53 University of Houston 6 17 132 1,069 291
54 University of California, Davis 7 13 165 517 552
55 University of Oklahoma 9 8 230 242 500
56 University of Kentucky 6 19 139 970 255
57 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 8 16 158 602 438
58 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 5 11 120 463 671
59 Willamette University College of Law 8 15 159 601 326
60 Southwestern Law School 6 14 138 655 338
61 American University 7 10 168 271 543
62 Quinnipiac University 6 13 142 630 312
63 University of Wisconsin-Madison 5 14 80 989 265
64 Drexel University 6 9 105 219 816
65 Temple University 6 8 128 275 650
66 Case Western Reserve University 7 12 164 426 300
67 Tulane University 5 13 85 584 490
68 Pepperdine University 6 17 120 680 201
69 University at Buffalo 6 11 104 540 389
70 University of Washington 5 11 93 496 477
71 University of St. Thomas 6 9 110 523 352
72 University of Utah 6 8 130 245 477
73 Pennsylvania State University 7 12 146 371 271
74 William & Mary Law School 6 10 145 300 325
75 DePaul University 6 14 97 566 282
76 Villanova University 6 11 123 376 334
77 University of Denver 7 8 149 229 299
78 Northeastern University 6 11 106 329 371
79 St. Mary's University 5 12 94 376 384
80 Loyola Marymount University 5 11 74 425 371
81 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 6 9 77 362 407
82 Vermont Law School 5 13 61 659 211
83 University of Missouri 6 9 122 310 234
84 Boston College 5 10 111 248 279
85 University of Pittsburgh 4 11 68 334 397
86 University of Missouri-Kansas City 6 12 78 476 198
87 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 6 10 100 285 269
88 University of Notre Dame 7 11 106 291 226
89 University of Connecticut 5 6 85 223 363
90 Roger Williams University 5 12 97 426 124
91 New York Law School 5 7 65 432 246
92 Loyola University Chicago 6 8 115 155 253
93 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 5 11 94 333 174
94 Wayne State University 5 13 77 435 158
95 Michigan State University 6 7 101 127 321
96 University of Arizona 7 7 100 251 212
97 Indiana University Indianapolis 5 11 65 440 181
98 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 4 9 66 343 259
99 Seattle University 3 10 58 520 136
100 Southern Methodist University 5 8 81 300 221