This is based on the data collected and published in 2015 by Professor Sisk and colleagues. I'll be posting additional data about most cited faculty in various areas of scholarship. But to start, here's the ten most-cited faculty in the academic literature for the years 2010 through 2014 inclusive:
|
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Area(s) |
Age in 2016 |
|
1 |
Cass Sunstein |
Harvard University |
5480 |
Constitutional, Administrative, Environmental, Behavioral Law & Economics |
62 |
|
2 |
Erwin Chemerinsky |
University of California, Irvine |
2940 |
Constitutional, Civil Procedure |
63 |
|
3 |
Richard Epstein |
New York University, University of Chicago |
2680 |
Constitutional, Torts, Law & Economics |
73 |
|
4 |
Eric Posner |
University of Chicago |
2470 |
Law & Economics, International, Commercial Law, Contracts |
51 |
|
5 |
Mark Lemley |
Stanford University |
2400 |
Intellectual Property |
50 |
|
6 |
William Eskridge, Jr. |
Yale University |
2180 |
Constitutional, Legislation |
65 |
|
7 |
Mark Tushnet |
Harvard University |
1880 |
Constitutional, Legal History |
71 |
|
8 |
Akhil Amar |
Yale University |
1790 |
Constitutional |
58 |
|
9 |
Bruce Ackerman |
Yale University |
1730 |
Constitutional |
73 |
|
10 |
Lawrence Lessig |
Harvard University |
1720 |
Constitutional, Intellectul Property, Cyberlaw |
55 |
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