This is a list of leading scholars who deploy the tools of law & economics, or law & behavioral economics, across a range of subjects, drawing, once again, on the data from the 2015 Sisk study:
|
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2016 |
|
1 |
Eric Posner |
University of Chicago |
2470 |
51 |
|
2 |
Steven Shavell |
Harvard University |
1340 |
70 |
|
3 |
Ian Ayres |
Yale University |
1310 |
57 |
|
4 |
Louis Kaplow |
Harvard University |
1150 |
60 |
|
5 |
Robert Cooter |
University of California, Berkeley |
1000 |
71 |
|
6 |
Russell Korobkin |
University of California, Los Angeles |
750 |
48 |
|
7 |
Christine Jolls |
Yale University |
690 |
49 |
|
8 |
Einer Elhauge |
Harvard University |
680 |
55 |
|
9 |
A. Mitchell Polinsky |
Stanford University |
570 |
69 |
|
George Priest |
Yale University |
570 |
63 |
|
|
11 |
Saul Levmore |
University of Chicago |
550 |
63 |
|
12 |
Michael Abramowicz |
George Washington University |
510 |
44 |
|
W. Kip Viscusi |
Vanderbilt University |
510 |
66 |
|
|
14 |
Lewis Kornhauser |
New York University |
490 |
66 |
|
15 |
Gillian Hadfield |
University of Southern California |
410 |
55 |
|
Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area |
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|
Cass Sunstein |
Harvard University |
5480 |
62 |
|
|
Richard Epstein |
New York University, University of Chicago |
2680 |
73 |
|
|
Mark Lemley |
Stanford University |
2400 |
50 |
|
|
Lucian Bebchuk |
Harvard University |
1130 |
61 |
|
|
Robert Scott |
Columbia University |
970 |
72 |
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