Wednesday, October 20, 2021
20 Most-Cited Corporate & Securities Law Faculty in the U.S., 2016-2020 (CORRECTED 10/20/21))
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the twenty most-cited law faculty in corporate law and/or securities regulation 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."
CORPORATE LAW & SECURITIES REGULATION
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2021 |
1 |
John Coffee, Jr. |
Columbia University |
1140 |
77 |
2 |
Lucian Bebchuk |
Harvard University |
930 |
66 |
3 |
Stephen Bainbridge |
University of California, Los Angeles |
920 |
63 |
4 |
Ronald Gilson |
Columbia University |
810 |
75 |
5 |
Reinier Kraakman |
Harvard University |
750 |
72 |
6 |
Jill Fisch |
University of Pennsylvania |
690 |
61 |
7 |
Stephen Choi |
New York University |
640 |
55 |
8 |
Steven Davidoff Solomon |
University of California, Berkeley |
620 |
50 |
9 |
Donald Langevoort |
Georgetown University |
570 |
70 |
10 |
Marcel Kahan |
New York University |
550 |
59 |
11 |
Jeffrey Gordon |
Columbia University |
540 |
71 |
12 |
Mark Roe |
Harvard University |
520 |
70 |
13 |
Robert Thompson |
Georgetown University |
510 |
72 |
14 |
Roberta Romano |
Yale University |
500 |
69 |
15 |
William Wilson Bratton |
University of Miami |
470 |
70 |
Edward Rock |
New York University |
470 |
65 |
|
17 |
John Coates |
Harvard University |
460 |
57 |
18 |
James Cox |
Duke University |
450 |
78 |
Bernard Black |
Northwestern University |
450 |
68 |
|
20 |
Randall Thomas |
Vanderbilt University |
440 |
66 |
Other high-cited scholars who work partly in this area |
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Jonathan Macey |
Yale University |
920 |
66 |
|
David Skeel |
University of Pennsylvania |
500 |
60 |
This is another field, like tax, where some really first-rate scholars are not represented on the most-cited list. Robert Bartlett at Berkeley and Paul Mahoney at Virginia are two examples that immediately leap to mind. These most-cited lists certainly always pick out many of the genuinely leading figures, but there is no substitute for expert evaluation of written work when it comes to appointments!
https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2021/10/20-most-cited-corporate-securities-law-faculty-in-the-us-2016-2020.html