Wednesday, September 8, 2021
15 Most-Cited Faculty in Law & Economics (including Behavioral L&E) in the U.S., 2016-2020 (CORRECTED)
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the fifteen most-cited law faculty in law & economics (including behavioral law & 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). Typically these scholars deploy economic analysis across multiple legal domains. 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 & Economics (incl. behavioral law & economics)
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2018 |
1 |
Eric Posner |
University of Chicago |
2240 |
56 |
2 |
Steven Shavell |
Harvard University |
1130 |
76 |
3 |
Ian Ayres |
Yale University |
1100 |
62 |
4 |
Louis Kaplow |
Harvard University |
950 |
65 |
5 |
Robert Cooter |
University of California, Berkeley |
680 |
76 |
6 |
Einer Elhauge |
Harvard University |
540 |
60 |
7 |
Christine Jolls |
Yale University |
460 |
54 |
Jonathan Masur |
University of Chicago |
460 |
43 |
|
9 |
Russell Korobkin |
University of California, Los Angeles |
440 |
53 |
10 |
A. Mitchell Polinsky |
Stanford University |
430 |
74 |
11 |
Saul Levmore |
University of Chicago |
400 |
68 |
George Priest |
Yale University |
400 |
68 |
|
W. Kip Viscusi |
Vanderbilt University |
400 |
71 |
|
14 |
Michael Abramowicz |
George Washington University |
390 |
49 |
15 |
Keith Hylton |
Boston University |
340 |
61 |
Other highly cited scholars who work partly in this area |
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Mark Lemley |
Stanford University |
1910 |
55 |
|
Richard Epstein |
New York University |
1740 |
78 |
|
Lucian Bebchuk |
Harvard University |
930 |
66 |
|
Geoffrey Miller |
New York University |
870 |
71 |
|
Samuel Issacharoff |
New York University |
830 |
67 |
https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2021/09/15-most-cited-scholars-in-law-economics-including-behavioral-le-in-the-us-2016-2020.html