Brian Leiter's Law School Reports

Twenty Most-Cited Constitutional & Public Law Faculty in the United States, 2010-2014 (inclusive) (corrected as of May 31)

Once again, this draws on the data from the 2015 Sisk study.  I have included here some scholars whose work straddles constitutional and administrative law (e.g., Sunstein, Vermeule), but I will do a separate listing that will include administrative law scholars with little or no general constitutional law work in their profile.  As with all these listings, only non-emeritus faculty at U.S. law schools are included. 

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Age in 2016
1	Cass Sunstein	Harvard University	5480	62
2	Erwin Chemerinsky	University of California, Irvine	2940	63
3	William Eskridge, Jr.	Yale University	2180	65
4	Mark Tushnet	Harvard University	1880	71
5	Akhil Amar	Yale University	1790	58
6	Laurence Tribe	Harvard University	1680	75
7	Bruce Ackerman	Yale University	1730	73
8	Jack Balkin	Yale University	1710	59
9	Richard Fallon	Harvard University	1510	64
10	Robert Post	Yale University	1390	69
11	Adrian Vermeule	Harvard University	1360	48
12	Reva Siegel	Yale University	1340	60
13	Eugene Volokh	University of California, Los Angeles	1210*	48
14	Sanford Levinson	University of Texas, Austin	1190	75
15	Michael McConnell	Stanford University	1180	61
16	Michael Dorf	Cornell University	1140	52
17	Martin Redish	Northwestern University	1110	71
18	Barry Friedman	New York University	1040	58
19	Richard Pildes	New York University	940	58
20	Steven Calabresi	Northwestern University	910	58
		Runner-up
	David Cole	Georgetown University	900	58
		Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in constitutional and public law
	Richard Epstein	New York University, University of Chicago	2680	73
	Frederick Schauer	University of Virginia	1720	70
	Daniel Farber	University of California, Berkeley	1660	66
	John Yoo	University of California, Berkeley	1250	49
	Randy Barnett	Georgetown University	1180	64

*Adjusted downwards by 5% (to arrive at 1210) to reflect cites to blog posts unrelated to his scholarship (many blog posts were in fact related, those were not excluded).

 

Students (from Harvard?) heckle HLS Dean Minow as she receives an award at Brandeis

Video here.   One does wonder what these folks are protesting exactly.

20 Most-Cited Administrative and/or Environmental Law Faculty, 2010-2014 (inclusive) (corrected)

Once again, drawing on the data from the 2015 Sisk study, though this category is admittedbly slightly more artificial than some of the others.   Some of the faculty below work in administrative law, but do no work in environmental; some work in both; and some work in other areas of regulatory law, like telecommunications, which overlap with administrative law.  Administrative law scholars with a significant constitutional dimension to their work were included in a prior ranking.  

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Age in 2016
1	Richard Stewart	New York University	880	76
2	Jody Freeman	Harvard University	780	52
	Richard J. Pierce, Jr.	George Washington University	780	73
4	Richard Revesz	New York University	720	58
5	J.B. Ruhl	Vanderbilt University	700	58
6	Gary Lawson	Boston University	690	58
7	Peter Strauss	Columbia University	670	76
8	Jonathan Adler	Case Western Reserve University	600	47
	Richard Lazarus	Harvard University	600	62
10	Robin Kundis Craig	University of Utah	510	52
11	Lisa Bressman	Vanderbilt University	500	50
	Douglas Kysar	Yale University	500	43
13	Thomas McGarity	University of Texas, Austin	490	67
14	James Salzman	University of California, Los Angeles (part-time)	480	52
15	A. Dan Tarlock	Chicago-Kent College of Law	470	76
	Christopher Yoo	University of Pennsylvania	470	52
17	Robert Glicksman      Orly Lobel	George Washington University   University of San Diego	460           460	64   43
19	Jim Rossi	Vanderbilt University	450	51
20	Sidney Shapiro	Wake Forest University	440	69
		Runners up for the top 20
	Mark Seidenfeld       Holly Doremus              Cary Coglianese	Florida State University   University of California, Berkeley   University of Pennsylvania	430       420   410	63   56   52
	Robert Percival	University of Maryland	410	55
		Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in administrative or environmental law
	Cass Sunstein	Harvard University
	Daniel Farber	University of California, Berkeley	1660	62
	Thomas Merrill	Columbia University	1590	67
	Adrian Vermeule	Harvard University	1360	48
	Edward Rubin	Vanderbilt University	910	68
	Carol Rose	University of Arizona	710	76

Finally, an arrest in the murder of Florida State law professor Dan Markel (moving to front--updated)

Initial news item, more details coming later today.

UPDATE:  So the police are investigating this as a "murder for hire," and indicate more arrests are expected.  No details yet on who would have hired the killer.  You can see the police press conference here.  The original link, above, is being updated.

15 Most-Cited Faculty in Law & Economics (incl. behavioral law & economics), 2010-2014 (inclusive)

This is a list of leading scholars who deploy the tools of law & economics, or law & behavioral economics, across a range of subjects, drawing, once again, on the data from the 2015 Sisk study: 

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Age in 2016
1	Eric Posner	University of Chicago	2470	51
2	Steven Shavell	Harvard University	1340	70
3	Ian Ayres	Yale University	1310	57
4	Louis Kaplow	Harvard University	1150	60
5	Robert Cooter	University of California, Berkeley	1000	71
6	Russell Korobkin	University of California, Los Angeles	750	48
7	Christine Jolls	Yale University	690	49
8	Einer Elhauge	Harvard University	680	55
9	A. Mitchell Polinsky	Stanford University	570	69
	George Priest	Yale University	570	63
11	Saul Levmore	University of Chicago	550	63
12	Michael Abramowicz	George Washington University	510	44
	W. Kip Viscusi	Vanderbilt University	510	66
14	Lewis Kornhauser	New York University	490	66
15	Gillian Hadfield	University of Southern California	410	55
		Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area
	Cass Sunstein	Harvard University	5480	62
	Richard Epstein	New York University, University of Chicago	2680	73
	Mark Lemley	Stanford University	2400	50
	Lucian Bebchuk	Harvard University	1130	61
	Robert Scott	Columbia University	970	72

Ten Most-Cited Faculty in Commercial Law (including contracts and bankruptcy), 2010-2014 (inclusive)

Once again, drawing on the data from the 2015 Sisk study: 

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Age in 2016
1	Robert E. Scott	Columbia University	970	72
2	Steven Schwarcz	Duke University	760	67
3	Douglas Baird	University of Chicago	640	63
4	Alan Schwartz	Yale University	590	76
5	Oren Bar-Gill	Harvard University	540	41
6	Adam Levitin	Georgetown University	500	40
7	Omri Ben-Shahar	University of Chicago	460	54
8	Lynn LoPucki	University of California, Los Angeles	420	72
	Ronald J. Mann	Columbia University	420	55
10	Jay Westbrook	University of Texas, Austin	380	73
		Runner-up for the top ten
	Richard Craswell	Stanford University	370	62
		Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area
	Eric Posner	University of Chicago	2470	51
	Geoffrey Miller	New York University	1150	66
	David Skeel	University of Pennsylvania	740	55
	Todd Zywicki	George Mason University	490	50
	Clayton Gillette	New York University	390	66

 

Ten Most-Cited Evidence Faculty in the United States, 2010-2014 (inclusive)

 Once again, drawing on the data from the 2015 Sisk study: 

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Age in 2016
1	Ronald J. Allen	Northwestern University	420	68
2	David Faigman	University of California, Hastings	370	59
3	Richard Friedman	University of Michigan	300	65
	D. Michael Risinger	Seton Hall University	300	71
5	Paul Gianelli	Case Western Reserve University	250	71
	Robert Mosteller	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	250	68
	Christopher Mueller	University of Colorado, Boulder	250	73
8	George Fisher	Stanford University	240	55
9	Laird Kirkpatrick	George Washington University	230	73
	Jennifer Mnookin	University of California, Los Angeles	230	49
		Runner-up for the top ten
	David Kaye	Pennsylvania State University	220	69
		Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area
	Frederick Schauer	University of Virginia	1720	70
	Brian Leiter	University of Chicago	450	53
	David Bernstein	George Mason University	440	49
	Michael Saks	Arizona State University	380	69
	Alex Stein	Brooklyn Law School	270	59

Ten Most-Cited Tax Faculty in the United States, 2010-2014 (inclusive)

 Once again, drawing on the data from the 2015 Sisk study: 

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Age in 2016
1	David Weisbach	University of Chicago	420	53
2	Michael Graetz	Columbia University	410	72
3	Reuven Avi-Yonah	University of Michigan	360	59
4	Daniel Shaviro	New York University	350	59
5	Lawrence Zelenak	Duke University	310	58
6	Leandra Lederman	Indiana University, Bloomington	300	50
7	Edward Zelinsky	Cardozo Law School/Yeshiva University	280	66
8	Victor Fleischer	University of San Diego	270	45
9	Edward McCaffery	University of Southern California	260	58
10	Joseph Bankman	Stanford University	230	61
	Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area
	Louis Kaplow	Harvard University	1150	60
	Brian Galle	Georgetown University	380	44
	Kristin Hickman	University of Minnesota	360	46
	Mark Gergen	University of California, Berkeley	280	60

 

 

 

 

 

Ten Most-Cited Law & Philosophy Faculty in the United States, 2010-2014 (inclusive)

Once again, drawing on the data from the 2015 Sisk study:

LAW & PHILOSOPHY

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Age in 2016
1	Jeremy Waldron	New York University	1330	63
2	Martha Nussbaum	University of Chicago	1120	69
3	Joseph Raz	Columbia University (part-time)	850	77
4	Michael Moore	University of Illinois	490	73
5	Brian Leiter	University of Chicago	450*	53
6	R.A. Duff	University of Minnesota (part-time)	430	71 (est.)
7	John Finnis	University of Notre Dame	420	76
8	Seana Shiffrin	University of California, Los Angeles	320	47
9	Scott Shapiro	Yale University	310	50
10	Brian Bix	University of Minnesota	260	54
		Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area
	Frederick Schauer	University of Virginia	1650	70
	David Luban	Georgetown University	930	67
	Lawrence Solum	Georgetown University	900	62
	Larry Alexander	University of San Diego	780	73
	Kent Greenawalt	Columbia University	660	80

* Raw count was adjusted downward by 15% (to arrive at 450) to reflect the percentage of citations to my blogs unrelated to my scholarly work.

 

Ten Most-Cited Legal History Faculty in the United States, 2010-2014 (inclusive)

Once again, drawing on the data from the 2015 Sisk study:

 

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Age in 2016
1	Lawrence Friedman	Stanford University	1160	86
2	Michael Klarman	Harvard University	810	57
3	G. Edward White	University of Virginia	560	75
4	James Whitman	Yale University	480	59
5	Stuart Banner	University of California, Los Angeles	390	53
	William Nelson	New York University	390	76
7	Phillip Hamburger	Columbia University	370	59
8	Christopher Tomlins	University of California, Berkeley	310	63
	John Witt	Yale University	310	44
10	Mary Dudziak	Emory University	270	59
	Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area
	Reva Siegel	Yale University	1340	60
	Herbert Hovenkamp	University of Iowa	1070	68
	Robert W. Gordon	Stanford University	520	75
	David Bernstein	George Mason University	440	49