10 Most-Cited Law Faculty in the U.S., 2016-2020

Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited active law professors in the U.S. for the period 2016-2020 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2021, and that the pre-2021 database did expand a bit since then).  Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten.  (Law professors not teaching in 2021-22--e.g.,those who are now retired, in government service, etc.--are not included.)

Ten Most Cited Law Faculty Overall, 2016-2020

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Area(s)	Age in 2021
1	Erwin Chemerinsky	University of California, Berkeley	2470	Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure	68
2	Eric Posner	University of Chicago	2240	Law & Economics, International Law, Commercial Law, Contracts	56
3	Mark Lemley	Stanford University	1910	Intellectual Property, Antitrust, Cyberlaw	55
4	William Eskridge, Jr.	Yale University	1880	Constitutional Law, Legislation	70
5	Richard Epstein	New York University	1740	Constitutional Law, Torts, Law & Economics	78
6	Jack M. Balkin	Yale University	1640	Constitutional Law, Cyberlaw	65
7	Frederick Schauer	University of Virginia	1450	Constitutional Law, Law & Philosophy, Evidence	75
8	Akhil Amar	Yale University	1440	Constitutional Law	63
9	Richard Fallon	Harvard University	1430	Constitutional Law	69
10	Thomas Merrill	Columbia University	1380	Administrative, Constitutional, and Property Law	72