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Last Updated: July 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Harvard University 24 60 1,763 11,786 3,636
2 Yale University 20 44 1,542 10,448 3,192
3 New York University 18 47 1,381 8,422 3,488
4 University of Virginia 16 34 1,455 3,751 2,908
5 University of Chicago 16 36 1,189 6,193 1,892
6 Stanford University 20 37 1,331 4,664 2,495
7 University of California, Los Angeles 18 32 1,322 3,520 2,666
8 Columbia University School of Law 15 33 755 5,170 1,410
9 Fordham University 18 29 1,012 3,237 1,798
10 George Washington University 11 28 801 3,181 2,156
11 University of Pennsylvania 15 30 809 2,985 2,206
12 University of California, Berkeley 14 29 733 2,536 1,864
13 Georgetown University 13 28 710 2,364 1,742
14 University of Texas at Austin 12 25 725 2,168 1,162
15 Brooklyn Law School 10 34 478 3,483 1,158
16 Cornell University 11 26 478 2,656 1,340
17 Northwestern University 15 21 727 1,622 1,063
18 University of Michigan 13 22 600 1,756 1,536
19 Washington University 11 25 554 2,134 1,236
20 Duke University 9 27 408 2,172 1,518
21 University of Florida 11 22 447 1,584 1,626
22 Boston University 10 24 490 1,839 1,052
23 Vanderbilt University 10 22 362 2,058 1,187
24 Rutgers University 11 21 465 1,417 880
25 Arizona State University 8 22 307 1,720 1,222
26 University of South Carolina 9 24 259 1,826 856
27 Yeshiva University 11 16 452 887 730
28 University of California, Irvine 10 21 319 1,235 1,042
29 University of Georgia 11 19 409 954 816
30 Ohio State University 10 19 308 1,302 679
31 University of Colorado Boulder 9 9 274 367 1,660
32 University of Southern California 10 17 282 1,112 862
33 St. John's University 5 7 444 329 763
34 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 8 20 222 1,490 768
35 Wake Forest University 11 15 288 681 1,074
36 University of San Diego 9 20 223 1,333 690
37 Emory University 7 21 192 1,208 868
38 Florida State University 9 12 286 592 649
39 University of Minnesota 8 17 236 924 537
40 Texas A&M University 8 14 246 599 647
41 Suffolk University 6 18 129 1,203 600
42 University of Iowa 8 9 192 250 1,053
43 University of California, San Francisco 8 15 190 884 471
44 University of Alabama 8 8 214 157 1,004
45 Santa Clara University 6 15 210 816 435
46 University of Richmond 7 15 186 705 624
47 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 9 11 192 538 662
48 Louisiana State University 8 16 181 727 534
49 University of Maryland 7 13 167 560 749
50 Georgia State University 7 13 167 707 587
51 George Mason University 8 15 149 769 606
52 University of Houston 6 18 132 1,088 318
53 Indiana University Bloomington 8 14 178 557 532
54 University of Kentucky 6 19 136 970 289
55 University of Oklahoma 9 8 226 242 506
56 University of California, Davis 7 13 152 516 583
57 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 8 16 152 603 440
58 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 4 11 113 463 670
59 Willamette University College of Law 8 15 154 601 322
60 American University 7 10 163 271 551
61 Southwestern Law School 6 14 131 655 337
62 Quinnipiac University 6 13 136 633 330
63 Drexel University 6 9 102 219 839
64 Case Western Reserve University 8 12 167 431 329
65 University of Wisconsin-Madison 5 13 77 960 254
66 Temple University 6 8 109 277 704
67 Tulane University 5 13 78 584 530
68 University at Buffalo 6 11 105 541 414
69 Pepperdine University 6 17 115 667 208
70 University of Utah 6 8 124 248 527
71 University of Washington 5 11 89 498 466
72 William & Mary Law School 6 10 148 287 342
73 Pennsylvania State University 7 12 142 371 273
74 DePaul University 6 14 89 566 306
75 Villanova University 6 11 117 376 342
76 St. Mary's University 5 12 93 375 360
77 University of St. Thomas 6 8 101 317 368
78 Northeastern University 6 11 98 329 368
79 University of Denver 7 8 137 222 275
80 Vermont Law School 5 13 58 659 217
81 Loyola Marymount University 5 11 69 425 371
82 University of Missouri 6 9 114 307 249
83 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 5 9 69 364 410
84 University of Pittsburgh 4 11 67 334 408
85 Boston College 5 10 105 248 291
86 University of Notre Dame 7 11 99 345 230
87 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 6 10 92 287 297
88 University of Connecticut 5 6 84 226 386
89 University of Missouri-Kansas City 6 12 74 476 194
90 Roger Williams University 5 12 94 426 130
91 Seton Hall University 6 8 88 265 289
92 New York Law School 5 7 64 432 251
93 Wayne State University 5 13 72 435 176
94 University of Arizona 6 7 93 247 229
95 Loyola University Chicago 6 8 106 155 247
96 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 4 11 87 333 178
97 Indiana University Indianapolis 5 11 62 440 187
98 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 4 9 64 343 265
99 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 5 10 90 246 223
100 University of Illinois Chicago 3 6 40 155 546