Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited commercial 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). "Commercial law" here also includes contracts and bankruptcy. Numbers are rounded to the nearest five. Faculty for whom 75% or more of their citations (based on a sample) are in this area are listed; others with less than 75% of their citations in this field (but still a plurality) are listed in the category of "other highly cited scholars who work partly in this area."
Commercial Law (incl. contracts and bankruptcy)
|
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2018 |
|
1 |
Robert E. Scott |
Columbia University |
890 |
74 |
|
2 |
Steven Schwarcz |
Duke University |
615 |
69 |
|
3 |
Omri Ben-Shahar |
University of Chicago |
570 |
56 |
|
4 |
Alan Schwartz |
Yale University |
540 |
78 |
|
5 |
Douglas Baird |
University of Chicago |
515 |
65 |
|
6 |
Oren Bar-Gill |
Harvard University |
505 |
43 |
|
7 |
Adam Levitin |
Georgetown University |
475 |
42 |
|
8 |
Ronald J. Mann |
Columbia University |
375 |
57 |
|
9 |
Lynn LoPucki |
University of California, Los Angeles |
330 |
74 |
|
10 |
Jay Westbrook |
University of Texas, Austin |
300 |
75 |
|
Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area |
||||
|
Eric Posner |
University of Chicago |
2340 |
53 |
|
|
Randy Barnett |
Georgetown University |
1055 |
66 |
|
|
Geoffrey Miller |
New York University |
990 |
68 |
|
|
David Skeel |
University of Pennsylvania |
630 |
57 |
|
|
David Hoffman |
University of Pennsylvania |
580 |
42 |
My former colleagues at another university in Middle East have also been moved to online teaching indefinitely, with the students…