Friday, September 17, 2021

10 Most-Cited Legal History Faculty (in law schools) in the U.S., 2016-2020 (CORRECTED)

Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law faculty working on legal history 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.   Faculty for whom roughly 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."

Legal History

Rank

Name

School

Citations

Age in 2021

1

Lawrence Friedman

Stanford University

800

91

2

Michael Klarman

Harvard University

720

62

3

Phillip Hamburger

Columbia University

520

64

4

G. Edward White

University of Virginia

460

80

5

James Q. Whitman

Yale University

350

64

6

Stuart Banner

University of California, Los Angeles

280

58

7

Samuel Moyn

Yale University

270

49

8

William E. Forbath

University of Texas, Austin

260

69

9

John Witt

Yale University

250

49

10

Kurt Lash

University of Richmond

230

61

 

Christopher Tomlins

University of California, Berkeley

230

68

 

Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area

     
 

Reva Siegel

Yale University

1340

66

 

Herbert Hovenkamp

University of Pennsylvania

  950

73

 

David Bernstein

George Mason University

  450

55

 

Mark Graber

University of Maryland

  380

65

This list is--unsurprisingly given the Westlaw database is dominated by U.S. law journals--skewed towards those working on American legal history, with the result that very distinguished legal historians working on non-U.S. topics (e.g., James Gordley at Tulane, or my colleague RH. Helmholz) do not appear.

https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2021/09/10-most-cited-legal-history-faculty-in-law-schools-in-the-us-2016-2020.html

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