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

   
 

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

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