Once again, drawing on the data from the 2015 Sisk study:
|
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2016 |
|
1 |
Robert E. Scott |
Columbia University |
970 |
72 |
|
2 |
Steven Schwarcz |
Duke University |
760 |
67 |
|
3 |
Douglas Baird |
University of Chicago |
640 |
63 |
|
4 |
Alan Schwartz |
Yale University |
590 |
76 |
|
5 |
Oren Bar-Gill |
Harvard University |
540 |
41 |
|
6 |
Adam Levitin |
Georgetown University |
500 |
40 |
|
7 |
Omri Ben-Shahar |
University of Chicago |
460 |
54 |
|
8 |
Lynn LoPucki |
University of California, Los Angeles |
420 |
72 |
|
Ronald J. Mann |
Columbia University |
420 |
55 |
|
|
10 |
Jay Westbrook |
University of Texas, Austin |
380 |
73 |
|
Runner-up for the top ten |
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|
Richard Craswell |
Stanford University |
370 |
62 |
|
|
Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area |
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|
Eric Posner |
University of Chicago |
2470 |
51 |
|
|
Geoffrey Miller |
New York University |
1150 |
66 |
|
|
David Skeel |
University of Pennsylvania |
740 |
55 |
|
|
Todd Zywicki |
George Mason University |
490 |
50 |
|
|
Clayton Gillette |
New York University |
390 |
66 |
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