Friday, October 12, 2018
20 Most-Cited Critical Theories of Law (Feminist and Critical Race) Scholars in the U.S. for the period 2013-2017 (1st draft)
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the twenty most-cited critical theories of law (Critical Race and feminist) scholars in U.S. 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 |
Martha Minow |
Harvard University |
800 |
64 |
2 |
Richard Delgado |
University of Alabama |
715 |
78 |
3 |
Kimberle Crenshaw |
Columbia University; University of California, Los Angeles |
695 |
59 |
4 |
Catharine MacKinnon |
University of Michigan |
630 |
72 |
5 |
Dorothy Roberts |
University of Pennsylvania |
580 |
62 |
6 |
Martha Fineman |
Emory University |
515 |
68 |
Robin West |
Georgetown University |
515 |
64 |
|
8 |
Ian Haney Lopez |
University of California, Berkeley |
495 |
54 |
9 |
Jerry Kang |
University of California, Los Angeles |
480 |
50 |
10 |
Devon Carbado |
University of California, Los Angeles |
455 |
52 |
11 |
Joan Williams |
University of California, Hastings |
410 |
66 |
12 |
Charles Lawrence III |
University of Hawaii |
390 |
75 |
13 |
Janet Halley |
Harvard University |
370 |
66 |
14 |
Katherine Franke |
Columbia University |
315 |
59 |
15 |
Ruth Colker |
Ohio State University |
295 |
62 |
Mari Matsuda |
University of Hawaii |
295 |
62 |
|
Jean Stefancic |
University of Alabama |
295 |
78 |
|
18 |
Elizabeth Schneider |
Brooklyn Law School |
285 |
70 |
19 |
Katharine Bartlett |
Duke University |
280 |
71 |
Angela Onwuachi-Willig |
Boston University |
280 |
45 |
|
Runner-up for the top twenty |
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Nancy Leong |
University of Denver |
275 |
39 |
|
Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in critical theories of law |
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Deborah Rhode |
Stanford University |
975 |
66 |
|
Martha Nussbaum |
University of Chicago |
930 |
71 |
|
G. Mitu Gulati |
Duke University |
735 |
52 |
|
Kevin Johnson |
University of California, Davis |
595 |
60 |
|
Gabriel (“Jack”) Chin |
University of California, Davis |
530 |
54 |
https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2018/10/20-most-cited-critical-theories-of-law-feminist-and-critical-race-scholars-in-the-us-for-the-period-.html