10 Most-Cited Property (including Wills & Estates) Faculty in the U.S., 2016-2020 (CORRECTED)

Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law faculty working on property law (broadly construed to also include land use, real estate, and wills, trusts & estates) 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."

 

Property (incl. land use, real estate, and wills & estates)

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Age in 2021
1	Henry Smith	Harvard University	710	56
2	Joseph William Singer	Harvard University	630	67
3	Lee Fennell	University of Chicago	360	55
4	Robert Sitkoff	Harvard University	340	47
5	Michael Heller	Columbia University	330	58
6	Stewart Sterk	Cardozo Law School/Yeshiva University	290	71
7	Nestor Davidson	Fordham University	280	54
8	Christopher Serkin	Vanderbilt University	200	50
9	Adam Hirsch	University of San Diego	180	66
10	Max Schanzenbach	Northwestern University	170	47
		Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area
	Thomas Merrill	Columbia University	1380	72
	Gideon Parchomovsky	University of Pennsylvania	580	53
	Lior Strahilevitz	University of Chicago	420	48
	Jedidiah Purdy	Columbia Universisty	350	47
	Michael Blumm	Lewis & Clark	340	71