Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law professors in the U.S. for the period 2013-2017 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May of 2018, and that the pre-2018 database did expand a bit since then). Numbers are rounded to the nearest five.
|
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Area(s) |
Age in 2018 |
|
1 |
Cass Sunstein |
Harvard University |
4955 |
Constitutional, Administrative, and Environmental Law, Behavioral Law & Economics |
64 |
|
2 |
Erwin Chemerinsky |
University of California, Berkeley |
2590 |
Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure |
65 |
|
3 |
Eric Posner |
University of Chicago |
2340 |
Law & Economics, International Law, Commercial Law, Contracts |
53 |
|
4 |
Mark Lemley |
Stanford University |
2200 |
Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw |
52 |
|
5 |
Richard Epstein |
New York University, University of Chicago |
2165 |
Constitutional Law, Torts, Law & Economics |
75 |
|
6 |
William Eskridge, Jr. |
Yale University |
2160 |
Constitutional Law, Legislation |
67 |
|
7 |
Akhil Amar |
Yale University |
1600 |
Constitutional Law |
60 |
|
8 |
Thomas Merrill |
Columbia University |
1595 |
Administrative, Constitutional, and Property Law |
69 |
|
9 |
Mark Tushnet |
Harvard University |
1590 |
Constitutional Law, Legal History |
72 |
|
10 |
Jack M. Balkin |
Yale University |
1580 |
Constitutional Law, Cyberlaw |
62 |
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