Law schools with the highest percentage of "most-cited" tenured faculty, 2010-2014 (CORRECTED 8/24)

Over the last several months, we've compiled "top ten" or "top twenty" lists of "most-cited" faculty (based on the Sisk data) in the following areas of scholarship:   Constitutional & Public Law; Administrative and/or Environmental Law; Criminal Law & Procedure; Commercial Law; Corporate Law/Securities Regulation; Torts; Property; Civil Procedure; Evidence; Tax; Antitrust; Legal Ethics/Legal Profession; International Law; Intellectual Property/Cyberlaw; Family Law; Law & Economics; Legal History; Law & Philosophy; Law & Social Science (excluding economics); and Critical Theories of Law.

Below, any school with at least three faculty on these lists are ranked by the percentage of tenured faculty (based on the Sisk count) who appeared in some "most cited" list (each faculty member is counted but once, even if they appeared on more than one list). 

 

Rank	School	Tenured Faculty in Sisk study	# of Highly-Cited Faculty	% faculty highly-cited
1	University of Chicago	29	14	48%
	Yale University	46	22	48%
3	Harvard University	82	30	37%
4	University of California, Berkeley	53	18	34%
5	New York University	82	26	32%
6	Columbia University	73	22	30%
7	Stanford University	49	14	29%
8	University of Pennsylvania	43	11	26%
9	Duke University	40	10	25%
	University of California, Irvine	24	6	25%
	Vanderbilt University	32	8	25%
12	University of California, Los Angeles	54	13	24%
13	Cornell University	35	8	23%
14	Northwestern University	34	6	18%
15	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	47	8	17%
	University of Minnesota	46	8	17%
17	George Washington University	66	9	14%
	Georgetown University	81	11	14%
19	Case Western Reserve University	23	3	13%
	George Mason University	31	4	13%
21	University of California, Hastings	38	4	11%
	University of Southern California	28	3	11%
	University of Texas, Austin	65	7	11%
	University of Virginia	66	7	11%
	Wake Forest University	28	3	11%
26	Brooklyn Law School	33	3	9%
27	Boston University	36	3	8%
	Fordham University	53	4	8%
	Ohio State University	36	3	8%
	University of San Diego	37	3	8%

Other schools with at least two tenured faculty on the most-cited lists were:   American University; University of Hawaii; University of California, Davis; Arizona State University; University of Arizona; Emory University; University of Illinois; Washington University, St. Louis; Cardozo Law School/Yeshiva University; Indiana University/Bloomington; Temple University; University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill.