Twenty Most-Cited Constitutional & Public Law Faculty in the United States, 2010-2014 (inclusive) (corrected as of May 31)

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Twenty Most-Cited Constitutional & Public Law Faculty in the United States, 2010-2014 (inclusive) (corrected as of May 31)

5/31/2016

Brian Leiter

Once again, this draws on the data from the 2015 Sisk study. I have included here some scholars whose work straddles constitutional and administrative law (e.g., Sunstein, Vermeule), but I will do a separate listing that will include administrative law scholars with little or no general constitutional law work in their profile. As with all these listings, only non-emeritus faculty at U.S. law schools are included.

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Age in 2016
1	Cass Sunstein	Harvard University	5480	62
2	Erwin Chemerinsky	University of California, Irvine	2940	63
3	William Eskridge, Jr.	Yale University	2180	65
4	Mark Tushnet	Harvard University	1880	71
5	Akhil Amar	Yale University	1790	58
6	Laurence Tribe	Harvard University	1680	75
7	Bruce Ackerman	Yale University	1730	73
8	Jack Balkin	Yale University	1710	59
9	Richard Fallon	Harvard University	1510	64
10	Robert Post	Yale University	1390	69
11	Adrian Vermeule	Harvard University	1360	48
12	Reva Siegel	Yale University	1340	60
13	Eugene Volokh	University of California, Los Angeles	1210*	48
14	Sanford Levinson	University of Texas, Austin	1190	75
15	Michael McConnell	Stanford University	1180	61
16	Michael Dorf	Cornell University	1140	52
17	Martin Redish	Northwestern University	1110	71
18	Barry Friedman	New York University	1040	58
19	Richard Pildes	New York University	940	58
20	Steven Calabresi	Northwestern University	910	58
		Runner-up
	David Cole	Georgetown University	900	58
		Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in constitutional and public law
	Richard Epstein	New York University, University of Chicago	2680	73
	Frederick Schauer	University of Virginia	1720	70
	Daniel Farber	University of California, Berkeley	1660	66
	John Yoo	University of California, Berkeley	1250	49
	Randy Barnett	Georgetown University	1180	64

*Adjusted downwards by 5% (to arrive at 1210) to reflect cites to blog posts unrelated to his scholarship (many blog posts were in fact related, those were not excluded).

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