Tuesday, August 21, 2018
25 Most-Cited Public Law Scholars (excluding Constitutional) in the U.S. for the period 2013-2017 (UPDATED 8/31)
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the twenty-five most-cited public 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). There isn't a fine line bettwen public law and constitutional law, obviously, but for purposes here "public law" includes administrative law, environmental law, legislation and legislative process, statutory interpretation, and regulatory law more generally (e.g., food and drug regulation, or telecommunications). (Election law will be ranked separately.) Given the large number of fields, I've listed 25 highly-cited scholars; several work in more than one of these sub-fields. 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 |
John F. Manning |
Harvard University |
945 |
57 |
2 |
Jody Freeman |
Harvard University |
800 |
54 |
3 |
Richard J. Pierce, Jr. |
George Washington University |
785 |
75 |
4 |
Richard Stewart |
New York University |
770 |
78 |
5 |
Richard Revesz |
New York University |
740 |
60 |
6 |
Gary Lawson |
Boston University |
680 |
60 |
7 |
J.B. Ruhl |
Vanderbilt University |
625 |
60 |
8 |
Jonathan Adler |
Case Western Reserve University |
620 |
49 |
9 |
Lisa Bressman |
Vanderbilt University |
615 |
52 |
Gillian Metzger |
Columbia University |
615 |
53 |
|
11 |
Abbe Gluck |
Yale University |
580 |
43 |
12 |
Matthew Stephenson |
Harvard University |
575 |
44 |
13 |
Richard Lazarus |
Harvard University |
560 |
64 |
14 |
Thomas O. McGarity |
University of Texas, Austin |
500 |
69 |
15 |
Jim Rossi |
Vanderbilt University |
480 |
53 |
16 |
Robin Kundis Craig |
University of Utah |
450 |
54 |
17 |
Robert Glicksman |
George Washington University |
440 |
66 |
Sidney Shapiro |
Wake Forest University |
440 |
71 |
|
19 |
Cary Coglianese |
University of Pennsylvania |
430 |
54 |
20 |
Orly Lobel |
University of San Diego |
420 |
45 |
21 |
James Salzman |
University of California, Los Angeles (part-time) |
395 |
54 |
22 |
Douglas Kysar |
Yale University |
390 |
45 |
Mark Seidenfeld |
Florida State University |
390 |
64 |
|
Christopher Yoo |
University of Pennsylvania |
390 |
54 |
|
25 |
Jacob Gersen |
Harvard University |
375 |
45 |
Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in these public law areas |
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Cass Sunstein |
Harvard University |
4955 |
64 |
|
William Eskridge |
Yale University |
2160 |
67 |
|
Thomas Merrill |
Columbia University |
1595 |
69 |
|
Adrian Vermeule |
Harvard University |
1385 |
50 |
|
Daniel Farber |
University of California, Berkeley |
1365 |
64 |
https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2018/08/25-most-cited-public-law-scholars-exclusing-constitutional-in-the-us-for-the-period-2013-2017.html