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 |
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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