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

   
 

Ruth Colker

Ohio State University

  360

60

   

Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in critical theories of law

   
 

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

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