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FROM THE LAW LIBRARY AT THE WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW:
The 2025 W&L Law Journal Rankings are now available!
Released on July 15, 2026, the 2025 Rankings provide citation data and calculated ranks for the top 400 U.S.-published law journals and the top 100 law journals published outside the United States. Journals ranked below these thresholds display “NR” (Not Ranked) for each data category and are listed alphabetically. The survey span of the 2025 ranking is five years (2021-2025). For more information about the new and previous rankings, please see our Methodology page.
ABOUT W&L LAW JOURNAL RANKINGS:
The W&L Law Journal Rankings are compiled and maintained by the Law Library at the Washington and Lee University School of Law. The purpose of the W&L Law Journal Rankings is to provide a resource for identifying law journals by subject, country of publication, or ranking (where available), and to provide additional information to facilitate comparing and contacting the journals listed. Users of the site commonly include authors seeking to submit their writing to law journals, publishers and editorial boards of law journals, and university faculty and administrators interested in evaluating academic legal periodicals.
The site is updated annually to include data up through the preceding calendar year. The most recent rankings are based on citation counts and publication statistics for a 2019-2023 survey period. Historical data from the 1996-2003 to 2018-2022 survey periods remains accessible on the site for reference and comparison.