Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law faculty working in law & philosophy in the U.S. for the period 2016-2020 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2021, and that the pre-2021 database did expand a bit since then). Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten. Faculty for whom roughly 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."
Law & Philosophy
|
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2021 |
|
1 |
Jeremy Waldron |
New York University |
1050 |
68 |
|
2 |
Martha Nussbaum |
University of Chicago |
720 |
74 |
|
3 |
Brian Leiter |
University of Chicago |
460* |
58 |
|
4 |
Michael S. Moore |
University of Illinois |
400 |
78 |
|
5 |
Scott Shapiro |
Yale University |
310 |
55 |
|
6 |
Seana Shiffrin |
University of California, Los Angeles |
280 |
52 |
|
7 |
Brian Bix |
University of Minnesota |
200 |
59 |
|
8 |
Andrei Marmor |
Cornell University |
180 |
62 |
|
9 |
Kimberly Kessler Ferzan |
University of Pennsylvania |
160 |
50 |
|
10 |
Heidi Hurd |
University of Illinois |
130 |
60 |
|
Scholars who work partly in this area |
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|
Frederick Schauer |
University of Virginia |
1450 |
75 |
|
|
Lawrence Solum |
University of Virginia |
880 |
67 |
|
|
Larry Alexander |
University of San Diego |
690 |
78 |
|
|
David Luban |
Georgetown University |
570 |
72 |
|
|
Kent Greenawalt |
Columbia University |
490 |
85 |
* Raw count adjusted downward (to arrive at 460, based on a sample of results) to eliminate citations to my blogs unrelated to my law & philosophy work (a small number were related).
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