Tuesday, August 21, 2018
20 Most-Cited Constitutional Law Scholars in the U.S. for the period 2013-2017 (CORRECTED AND UPDATED 8/21)
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the twenty most-cited constitutional law professors in the U.S. 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). This time around I've defined the "constitutional law" category a bit more carefully and also checked more carefully the percentages of citations that appear to be in the field for some highly-cited scholars; I will also be expanding the other public law coverage to reflect contributions that belong more clearly to, e.g., administrative law, legislation etc. (I will also be adding a separate ranking for election law). 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 |
Erwin Chemerinsky |
University of California, Berkeley |
2590 |
65 |
2 |
Akhil Amar |
Yale University |
1600 |
60 |
3 |
Mark Tushnet |
Harvard University |
1590 |
73 |
4 |
Jack Balkin |
Yale University |
1580 |
61 |
5 |
Laurence Tribe |
Harvard University |
1480 |
77 |
6 |
Bruce Ackerman |
Yale University |
1445 |
75 |
7 |
Richard Fallon |
Harvard University |
1365 |
66 |
8 |
Reva Siegel |
Yale University |
1340 |
62 |
9 |
Robet Post |
Yale University |
1280 |
71 |
10 |
Eugene Volokh |
University of California, Los Angeles |
1205* |
50 |
11 |
Michael McConnell |
Stanford University |
1170 |
63 |
12 |
Randy Barnett |
Georgetown University |
1055 |
66 |
13 |
Michael Dorf |
Cornell University |
1045 |
54 |
14 |
Martin Redish |
Northwestern University |
975 |
73 |
15 |
Sanford Levinson |
University of Texas, Austin |
935 |
77 |
16 |
Barry Friedman |
New York University |
845 |
60 |
Lawrence Solum |
Georgetown University |
845 |
64 |
|
18 |
David A. Strauss |
University of Chicago |
820 |
66 |
19 |
Steven Calabresi |
Northwestern University |
810 |
60 |
20 |
Douglas Laycock |
University of Virginia |
750 |
70 |
Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in constitutional and public law |
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Cass Sunstein |
Harvard University |
4955 |
64 |
|
Richard Epstein |
New York University, University of Chicago |
2165 |
75 |
|
William Eskridge, Jr. |
Yale University |
2160 |
67 |
|
Frederick Schauer |
University of Virginia |
1530 |
72 |
|
Adrian Vermeule |
Harvard University |
1385 |
50 |
|
Daniel Farber |
University of California, Berkeley |
1365 |
68 |
*Adjusted downwards by 5% based on a sample (to arrive at 1205) to reflect cites to blog posts unrelated to his scholarship (many blog posts were in fact related, those were not excluded).
https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2018/08/20-most-cited-constitutional-law-scholars-in-the-us-for-the-period-2013-2017.html