20 most cited Corporate Law & Securities Regulation faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023

Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the twenty most-cited law corporate law & securities faculty 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." 

 

CORPORATE LAW & SECURITIES REGULATION

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Age in 2024
1	John Coffee, Jr.	Columbia University	1020	80
2	Lucian Bebchuk	Harvard University	960	69
3	Jill Fisch	University of Pennsylvania	840	64
4	Stephen Bainbridge	University of California, Los Angeles	790	66
5	Reinier Kraakman	Harvard University	700	75
6	Steven Davidoff Solomon	University of California, Berkeley	650	53
7	Jeffrey Gordon	Columbia University	600	74
8	Stephen Choi	New York University	540	58
9	Marcel Kahan	New York University	530	62
10	Robert Thompson	Georgetown University	520	75
11	Randall Thomas	Vanderbilt University	510	69
12	Edward Rock	New York University	500	68
13	Mark Roe	Harvard University	490	73
14	John Coates	Harvard University	480	60
	Donald Langevoort	Georgetown University	480	73
16	Roberta Romano	Yale University	470	72
17	Elizabeth Pollman	University of Pennsylvania	460	46
18	Bernard Black	Northwestern University	420	71
19	Sean Griffith	Fordham University	400	51
20	James Cox	Duke University	380	81
	Other high-cited scholars who work partly in this area
	Jonathan Macey	Yale University	800	69
	David Skeel	University of Pennsylvania	420	63

This is another field, like tax, where some really first-rate scholars are not represented on the most-cited list.  Robert Bartlett at Stanford 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!