Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Ten most cited law faculty in the U.S. 2009 through 2013

Next week, I'll have up on the ranking site a new study of the ten most-cited faculty during the years 2009 through 2013 in 11 different areas of legal schoarship (everything from corporate law to legal history to tax).  As a teaser, here are the ten most-cited faculty overall (who are still in law teaching) for the period 2009-2013, listed by the schools they teach at:

 Ten Most Cited Faculty Overall

Rank

Name

Institution

Total Citations

Age in 2013

1

Cass Sunstein

Harvard University

5540

59            

2

Erwin Chemerinsky

University of California, Irvine

3010

60

3

Richard Epstein

New York University, University of Chicago

2700

70

4

Eric Posner

University of Chicago

2450

48

5

Mark Lemley

Stanford University

2360

47

6

William Eskridge, Jr.

Yale University

2070

62

7

Mark Tushnet

Harvard University

1910

68

8

Akhil Amar

Yale University

1790

55

9

Lawrence Lessig

Harvard University

1750

52

10

Daniel Farber

University of California, Berkeley

1740

63

 

Laurence Tribe

Harvard University

1740

72

Prominent judges who still teach part-time were not included in this study; but just for fun, here are the figures for the three most prominent:  Judge Posner (Chicago) was cited 6980 times during this period; Judge Easterbrook (Chicago) was cited 2130 times; and Judge Calabresi (Yale) was cited 1290 times. 

(Note:  total citations really means the total number of articles in which the scholar is cited.)

https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2014/06/ten-most-cited-law-faculty-in-the-us-from-2009-through-2013.html

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