Tuesday, May 31, 2016

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).

 

https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2016/05/twenty-most-cited-constitutional-public-law-faculty-in-the-united-states-2010-2014-inclusive.html

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