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Last Updated: August 2026

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Rank Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Harvard University 24 60 1,833 11,905 3,686
2 Yale University 21 44 1,594 10,424 3,155
3 New York University 19 48 1,411 8,560 3,397
4 University of Chicago 17 36 1,297 6,686 1,859
5 University of Virginia 17 34 1,489 3,745 2,936
6 Stanford University 20 37 1,361 4,658 2,504
7 University of California, Los Angeles 19 31 1,344 3,464 2,641
8 Columbia University School of Law 15 33 768 5,170 1,447
9 Fordham University 18 29 1,025 3,237 1,793
10 George Washington University 11 28 831 3,181 2,161
11 University of Pennsylvania 15 30 830 2,977 2,239
12 University of California, Berkeley 13 29 743 2,512 1,863
13 Georgetown University 13 28 700 2,248 1,799
14 Brooklyn Law School 11 34 486 3,480 1,180
15 University of Texas at Austin 12 24 757 2,103 1,140
16 Cornell University 12 27 482 2,708 1,416
17 University of Michigan 14 22 611 1,736 1,505
18 Washington University 11 25 570 2,134 1,254
19 Northwestern University 15 20 734 1,494 1,057
20 Duke University 9 27 417 2,161 1,505
21 University of Florida 11 22 453 1,583 1,641
22 Boston University 11 24 504 1,868 1,032
23 Vanderbilt University 10 22 371 2,057 1,218
24 Rutgers University 11 21 472 1,417 857
25 Arizona State University 8 23 316 1,745 1,223
26 University of South Carolina 9 24 263 1,826 876
27 University of Georgia 12 19 437 949 847
28 Yeshiva University 11 16 459 887 737
29 University of California, Irvine 10 21 322 1,234 1,042
30 Ohio State University 11 19 328 1,310 722
31 University of Colorado Boulder 9 9 285 367 1,657
32 St. John's University 5 8 457 382 761
33 University of Southern California 10 17 288 1,112 861
34 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) 8 20 223 1,490 775
35 Wake Forest University 10 15 289 669 1,091
36 University of San Diego 9 19 233 1,307 680
37 Emory University 7 21 197 1,207 861
38 Florida State University 9 12 293 591 640
39 University of Minnesota 9 17 251 924 534
40 Texas A&M University 8 14 254 549 651
41 Suffolk University 7 18 130 1,203 590
42 University of Iowa 8 9 195 250 1,056
43 Santa Clara University 6 15 214 816 446
44 University of Alabama 8 8 218 154 1,020
45 Louisiana State University 8 16 201 728 568
46 University of California, San Francisco 8 15 192 882 450
47 University of Richmond 7 14 186 685 619
48 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 9 11 197 538 690
49 University of Maryland 7 13 171 560 729
50 George Mason University 8 15 152 771 607
51 Georgia State University 7 13 167 707 588
52 University of Houston 6 18 132 1,083 289
53 Indiana University Bloomington 8 14 179 557 537
54 University of Kentucky 6 19 138 970 280
55 University of Oklahoma 9 8 227 242 517
56 University of California, Davis 7 13 157 516 581
57 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 8 16 156 603 449
58 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 5 11 118 463 680
59 Willamette University College of Law 8 15 157 601 327
60 American University 7 10 165 267 559
61 Drexel University 6 9 106 219 876
62 Southwestern Law School 6 14 132 655 340
63 Quinnipiac University 6 13 138 634 328
64 Case Western Reserve University 8 12 171 431 327
65 Temple University 6 8 125 277 682
66 University of Wisconsin-Madison 5 14 77 989 259
67 Tulane University 5 13 82 584 524
68 University at Buffalo 6 11 106 540 395
69 Pepperdine University 6 17 117 680 207
70 University of Utah 6 8 129 248 520
71 William & Mary Law School 6 10 148 287 347
72 Pennsylvania State University 7 12 146 371 273
73 DePaul University 6 14 95 566 294
74 Villanova University 6 11 122 376 339
75 University of Washington 5 11 70 498 471
76 University of Denver 7 8 143 222 288
77 St. Mary's University 5 12 93 376 382
78 Northeastern University 6 11 101 329 372
79 Vermont Law School 5 13 60 659 222
80 University of St. Thomas 6 8 96 317 359
81 Loyola Marymount University 5 11 72 425 366
82 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) 5 9 72 362 411
83 University of Missouri 6 9 117 307 247
84 University of Notre Dame 7 11 103 345 232
85 Boston College 5 10 110 248 288
86 University of Pittsburgh 4 11 68 334 398
87 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 6 10 95 285 295
88 University of Connecticut 5 6 86 226 390
89 University of Missouri-Kansas City 6 12 78 476 192
90 Seton Hall University 6 8 94 265 285
91 Roger Williams University 5 12 96 426 126
92 New York Law School 5 7 64 432 256
93 Wayne State University 5 13 76 435 171
94 Loyola University Chicago 6 8 113 155 248
95 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 4 11 90 333 176
96 Michigan State University 6 7 98 127 322
97 University of Arizona 6 7 94 247 229
98 University of Hawai'i at Manoa 4 9 65 343 270
99 Indiana University Indianapolis 5 11 63 440 187
100 Seattle University 3 10 58 520 132