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 |
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David Cole |
Georgetown University |
900 |
58 |
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Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in constitutional and public law |
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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