Friday, August 24, 2018
10 Most-Cited Legal History Scholars in the U.S. for the period 2013-2017
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited legal historians in the U.S. (teaching in law schools) for the period 2013-2017 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May of 2018, and that the pre-2018 database did expand a bit since then). Numbers are rounded to the nearest five. Faculty for whom 75% or more of their citations (based on a sample) are in this area are listed; others with less than 75% of their citations in this field (but still a plurality) are listed in the category of "other highly cited scholars who work partly in this area."
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2018 |
1 |
Lawrence Friedman |
Stanford University |
990 |
88 |
2 |
Michael Klarman |
Harvard University |
800 |
59 |
3 |
G. Edward White |
University of Virginia |
535 |
77 |
4 |
James Whitman |
Yale University |
425 |
61 |
5 |
Phillip Hamburger |
Columbia University |
395 |
61 |
6 |
Stuart Banner |
University of California, Los Angeles |
345 |
55 |
7 |
William Nelson |
New York University |
315 |
78 |
8 |
John Witt |
Yale University |
275 |
46 |
9 |
Edward A. Purcell, Jr. |
New York Law School |
245 |
77 |
10 |
William E. Forbath |
University of Texas, Austin |
240 |
66 |
Christopher Tomlins |
University of California, Berkeley |
240 |
65 |
|
Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area |
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Reva Siegel |
Yale University |
1340 |
62 |
|
Herbert Hovenkamp |
University of Pennsylvania |
985 |
70 |
|
Robert W. Gordon |
Stanford University |
365 |
77 |
|
David Bernstein |
George Mason University |
420 |
51 |
https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2018/08/10-most-cited-legal-history-scholars-in-the-us-for-the-period-2013-2017.html