10 most cited Law & Philosophy faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023

Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law faculty in law & philosophy in the U.S. for the period 2019-2023 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2024, and that the pre-2024 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." 

Law & Philosophy

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Age in 2024
1	Jeremy Waldron	New York University	1010	71
2	Martha Nussbaum	University of Chicago	660	77
3	Brian Leiter	University of Chicago	410*	61
4	Michael S. Moore	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	360	81
5	Scott Shapiro	Yale University	340	58
6	Seana Shiffrin	University of California, Los Angeles	240	55
7	Kimberly Kessler Ferzan	University of Pennsylvania	200	53
8	Brian Bix	University of Minnesota	170	62
	Andrei Marmor	Cornell University	170	65
10	Heidi Hurd	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	160	63
		Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area**
	Lawrence Solum	University of Virginia	980	70
	Benjamin Zipursky	Fordham University	500	64
	David Luban	Georgetown University	470	75
	Mitchell Berman	University of Pennsylvania	370	58
	Matthew Adler	Duke University	340	62

* Raw count adjusted downward (to arrive at 410) based on a sample of results, to eliminate citations to blogs unrelated to law & philosophy work (a very small number were related).

**Larry Alexander would have appeared on the “other highly-cited scholars” list, but he decided to retire September 1; he was part of the Sisk study since last Spring he had not announced an intention to retire.