Tuesday, November 2, 2021
10 Most-Cited Legislation/Statutory Interpretation Law Faculty in the U.S., 2016-2020 (CORRECTED)
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law faculty working on legislation (understood broadly to include statutory interpretation and study of the legislative [e.g., Congressional] process) 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." (Thanks to Professors Ryan Doerfler and Daniel Rodriguez for help in thinking about the contours of this specialty and identifying relevant scholars; mistakes are mine!)
Legislation (including statutory interpretation and legislative process)
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2021 |
1 |
John Manning |
Harvard University |
960 |
60 |
2 |
Abbe Gluck |
Yale University |
710 |
46 |
3 |
Matthew Stephenson |
Harvard University |
500 |
47 |
4 |
Victoria Nourse |
Georgetown University |
350 |
62 |
5 |
Lawrence Solan |
Brooklyn Law School |
250 |
69 |
6 |
Daniel Rodriguez |
Northwestern University |
220 |
59 |
7 |
Josh Chafetz |
Georgetown University |
190 |
42 |
Jane Schachter |
Stanford University |
190 |
63 |
|
9 |
Aaron-Andrew Bruhl |
College of William & Mary |
180 |
43 |
10 |
Anita Krishnakumar |
Georgetown University |
140 |
46 |
Other highly cited scholars who work partly in this area |
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William Eskridge |
Yale University |
2160 |
70 |
|
Lisa Bressman |
Vanderbilt University |
560 |
55 |
|
Caleb Nelson |
University of Virginia |
540 |
55 |
|
Jacob Gersen |
Harvard University |
390 |
48 |
|
Ethan Leib |
Fordham University |
310 |
46 |
https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2021/11/10-most-cited-legislationstatutory-interpretation-law-faculty-in-the-us-2016-2020.html