Wednesday, August 24, 2016
10 Most-Cited Family Law Faculty, 2010-2014 (inclusive) [CORRECTED; first posted 7/27]
MOVING TO FRONT: Turns out family law has evolved quite a bit since the last time we looked at the field more than a decade ago, hence several wrongful omissions, now hopefully all fixed!
Once again, this draws on the data from the 2015 Sisk study:
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2016 |
1 |
Martha Fineman |
Emory University |
580 |
66 |
2 |
Naomi Cahn |
George Washington University |
540 |
58 |
3 |
Elizabeth Scott |
Columbia University |
520 |
71 |
4 |
Lynn Wardle |
Brigham Young University |
380 |
69 |
5 |
Mark Strasser |
Capital University |
360 |
61 |
6 |
June Carbone |
University of Minnesota |
340 |
62 |
Nancy Polikoff |
American University |
340 |
64 |
|
Robin Wilson |
University of Illinois |
340 |
48 |
|
9 |
Joanna Grossman |
Southern Methodist University |
310 |
48 |
Melissa Murray |
University of California, Berkeley |
310 |
41 |
|
Runners-up: |
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Kerry Abrams |
University of Virginia |
260 |
45 |
|
Susan Appleton |
Washington University, St. Louis |
260 |
68 |
|
Jill Hasday |
University of Minnesota |
250 |
44 |
|
Carol Sanger |
Columbia University |
250 |
68 |
|
Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area |
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Martha Minow |
Harvard University |
1160 |
62 |
|
Janet Halley |
Harvard University |
420 |
64 |
|
Katharine Bartlett |
Duke University |
380 |
69 |
|
Mary Anne Case |
University of Chicago |
330 |
59 |
|
I Glenn Cohen |
Harvard University |
320 |
38 |
https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2016/08/10-most-cited-family-law-faculty-2010-2014-inclusive.html