15 most cited Law & Economics faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023

Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the fifteen most-cited law faculty in law & economics (including behavioral law & economics) 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 & Economics (incl. behavioral law & economics)

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Age in 2024
1	Eric Posner	University of Chicago	2090	59
2	Steven Shavell	Harvard University	930	78
3	Ian Ayres	Yale University	880	65
4	Louis Kaplow	Harvard University	840	68
5	Einer Elhauge	Harvard University	480	63
6	Jonathan Masur	University of Chicago	420	46
7	Saul Levmore	University of Chicago	410	71
8	Russell Korobkin	University of California, Los Angeles	360	56
9	A. Mitchell Polinsky	Stanford University	350	77
	George Priest	Yale University	350	71
11	W. Kip Viscusi	Vanderbilt University	340	74
12	Lewis Kornhauser	New York University	330	74
13	Michael Abramowicz	George Washington University	320	49
14	Christine Jolls	Yale University	310	54
	Eric Talley	Columbia University	310	58
		Other highly cited scholars who work partly in this area
	Cass Sunstein	Harvard University	4260	70
	Mark Lemley	Stanford University	1770	58
	Richard Epstein	New York University	1500	81
	Lucian Bebchuk	Harvard University	960	69
	Samuel Issacharoff	New York University	750	70

UPDATE:   Lawprof Daniel Sokol (Southern California) writes with a pertinent observation: "There are a lot of very smart formal economic modelers. This work never gets cited. The list tends to therefore undervalue academic contributions of people like Albert Choi [Michigan], Abe Wicklegren [Texas], Scott Baker [Wash U/St. Louis], and Alex Lee [Northwestern]. The older generation where there was low hanging fruit doesn't suffer this kind of problem."