Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Most-Cited Critical Theory Law Faculty, 2010-2014 (inclusive)
This includes faculty who work in critical race theory, feminist legal theory, and critical legal studies (though the latter has been moribund for some time). Once again, this draws on the data from the 2015 Sisk study:
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2016 |
1 |
Martha Minow |
Harvard University |
1160 |
62 |
2 |
Richard Delgado |
University of Alabama |
860 |
76 |
3 |
Catharine MacKinnon |
University of Michigan |
730 |
70 |
4 |
Kimberle Crenshaw |
Columbia University; University of California, Los Angeles |
650 |
57 |
5 |
Robin West |
Georgetown University |
610 |
62 |
6 |
Martha Fineman |
Emory University |
580 |
66 |
7 |
Michelle Alexander |
Ohio State University |
550 |
49 |
8 |
Angela Harris |
University of California, Davis |
540 |
55 |
9 |
Joan Williams |
University of California, Hastings |
530 |
64 |
10 |
Jerry Kang |
University of California, Los Angeles |
520 |
48 |
Dorothy Roberts |
University of Pennsylvania |
520 |
60 |
|
12 |
Lani Guinier |
Harvard University |
500 |
66 |
13 |
Charles Lawrence |
University of Hawaii |
490 |
73 |
14 |
Ian Haney Lopez |
University of California, Berkeley |
470 |
52 |
15 |
Devon Carbado |
University of California, Los Angeles |
460 |
50 |
16 |
Elizabeth Schneider |
Brooklyn Law School |
450 |
68 |
17 |
Randall Kennedy |
Harvard University |
430 |
62 |
18 |
Charles Ogletree |
Harvard University |
410 |
64 |
19 |
Katharine Bartlett |
Duke University |
380 |
69 |
20 |
Katherine Franke |
Columbia University |
370 |
57 |
Runner-up for the top twenty |
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Ruth Colker |
Ohio State University |
360 |
60 |
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Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in critical theories of law |
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Mark Tushnet |
Harvard University |
1880 |
71 |
|
Jack Balkin |
Yale University |
1710 |
59 |
|
Deborah Rhode |
Stanford University |
1080 |
64 |
|
G. Mitu Gulati |
Duke University |
860 |
50 |
https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2016/07/most-cited-critical-theory-law-faculty-2010-2014-inclusive.html