20 most cited International Law/National Security/Foreign Affairs Law faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023

Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the twenty most-cited law faculty working in international law, national security law and/or foreign affairs law 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." 

 

International law, national security, foreign affairs law

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Age in 2021
1	Jack Goldsmith	Harvard University	960	62
2	Harold Koh	Yale University	760	70
3	Curtis Bradley	University of Chicago	700	60
4	Oona Hathaway	Yale University	630	52
5	Gregory Shaffer	Georgetown University	470	66
6	Robert Chesney	University of Texas, Austin	420	53
7	Philip Alston	New York University	400	74
8	William Dodge	George Washington University	340	60
9	Kal Raustiala	University of California, Los Angeles	330	58
10	Alan Sykes	Stanford University	320	70
11	Andrew Guzman	University of Southern California	300	57
	Ryan Goodman	New York University	300	54
13	Jose Alvarez	New York University	280	69
	Laurence Helfer	Duke University	280	59
	David Kennedy	Harvard University	280	70
	Sean Murphy	George Washington University	280	64
17	Benedict Kingsbury	New York University	260	63
18	Ashley Deeks	University of Virginia	250	52
19	Daniel Bodansky	Arizona State University	240	68
20	Beth Simmons	University of Pennsylvania	230	66
		Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area
	Eric Posner	University of Chicago	2090	59
	Tom Ginsburg	University of Chicago	880	56
	John Yoo	University of California, Berkeley	640	57
	Stephen Vladeck	Georgetown University	680	45
	Michael Ramsey	University of San Diego	270	60