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
	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!