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