Tuesday, September 14, 2021
15 Most-Cited Law & Social Science (excluding economics) Faculty in the U.S., 2016-2020 (CORRECTED)
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the fifteen most-cited law faculty in law & social science (excluding economics) 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). This is meant to capture scholars who work under the "law & society" rubric and/or who deploy methodologies from psychology, sociology, political science and anthropology to law, including empirical legal studies scholars. 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."
Law & Social Science (excluding economics, and including “law & society,” “empirical legal studies,” sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology)
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2021 |
1 |
Tom Tyler |
Yale University |
940 |
71 |
2 |
Tom Ginsburg |
University of Chicago |
850 |
53 |
3 |
Lee Epstein |
Washington University, St. Louis |
800 |
63 |
4 |
Jeffrey Rachlinski |
Cornell University |
690 |
55 |
5 |
Chris Guthrie |
Vanderbilt University |
630 |
54 |
6 |
David Hoffman |
University of Pennsylvania |
580 |
45 |
7 |
Justin Levinson |
University of Hawaii |
480 |
47 |
8 |
Charles Sabel |
Columbia University |
460 |
74 |
9 |
Jonathan Simon |
University of California, Berkeley |
420 |
62 |
10 |
John Ferejohn |
New York University |
410 |
77 |
Anne Joseph O’Connell |
Stanford University |
410 |
51 |
|
12 |
Linda Hamilton Krieger |
University of Hawaii |
360 |
67 |
13 |
Herbert Kritzer |
University of Minnesota |
350 |
74 |
14 |
David Law |
University of Virginia |
340 |
48 |
15 |
Sean Fahrang |
University of California, Berkeley |
310 |
53 |
Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area |
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Dan Kahan |
Yale University |
850 |
58 |
|
G. Mitu Gulati |
University of Virginia |
640 |
53 |
|
Bernard Black |
Northwestern University |
450 |
68 |
|
Carrie Menkel-Meadow |
University of California, Irvine |
430 |
72 |
|
Brian Tamanaha |
Washington University, St. Louis |
420 |
64 |
https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2021/09/15-most-cited-law-social-science-scholars-in-the-us-2016-2020.html