Monday, October 25, 2021
20 Most-Cited Critical Theories of Law Faculty in the U.S., 2016-2020
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the twenty most-cited law faculty in critical theories of law (including Critical Race Theory and feminist legal theory) 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."
Critical Theories of Law: Feminist and Critical Race
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2021 |
1 |
Kimberle Crenshaw |
Columbia University; University of California, Los Angeles |
810 |
62 |
2 |
Devon Carbado |
University of California, Los Angeles |
680 |
55 |
3 |
Martha Minow |
Harvard University |
660 |
67 |
4 |
Richard Delgado |
University of Alabama |
650 |
81 |
5 |
Catharine MacKinnon |
University of Michigan |
630 |
75 |
Dorothy Roberts |
University of Pennsylvania |
630 |
65 |
|
7 |
Ian Haney Lopez |
University of California, Berkeley |
480 |
57 |
Robin West |
Georgetown University |
480 |
67 |
|
9 |
Jerry Kang |
University of California, Los Angeles |
470 |
53 |
10 |
Martha Fineman |
Emory University |
430 |
71 |
11 |
Joan Williams |
University of California, Hastings |
370 |
69 |
12 |
Janet Halley |
Harvard University |
330 |
69 |
13 |
Cheryl Harris |
University of California, Los Angeles |
310 |
69 |
14 |
Mari Matsuda |
University of Hawaii |
300 |
65 |
Angela Onwuachi-Willig |
Boston University |
300 |
48 |
|
16 |
Nancy Leong |
University of Denver |
290 |
42 |
17 |
Jean Stefancic |
University of Alabama |
260 |
81 |
18 |
Ruth Colker |
Ohio State University |
250 |
65 |
Katherine Franke |
Columbia University |
250 |
62 |
|
20 |
Patricia Williams |
Northeastern University |
210 |
70 |
Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in these areas |
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Martha Nussbaum |
University of Chicago |
720 |
74 |
|
G. Mitu Gulati |
University of Virginia |
640 |
55 |
|
Kevin Johnson |
University of California, Davis |
560 |
63 |
|
Gabriel (“Jack”) Chin |
University of California, Davis |
520 |
57 |
|
Gerald Torres |
Yale University |
220 |
69 |
https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2021/10/20-most-cited-critical-theories-law-faculty-in-the-us-2016-2020.html