Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the twenty most-cited law faculty in constitutional law 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."
Constitutional Law
|
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2021 |
|
1 |
Erwin Chemerinsky |
University of California, Berkeley |
2470 |
68 |
|
2 |
Jack Balkin |
Yale University |
1640 |
64 |
|
3 |
Akhil Amar |
Yale University |
1440 |
63 |
|
4 |
Richard Fallon |
Harvard University |
1430 |
69 |
|
5 |
Reva Siegel |
Yale University |
1340 |
65 |
|
6 |
Eugene Volokh |
University of California, Los Angeles |
1260* |
53 |
|
7 |
Robert Post |
Yale University |
1190 |
74 |
|
8 |
Bruce Ackerman |
Yale University |
1170 |
78 |
|
9 |
Michael McConnell |
Stanford University |
1030 |
66 |
|
10 |
Randy Barnett |
Georgetown University |
970 |
69 |
|
11 |
Michael Dorf |
Cornell University |
920 |
57 |
|
12 |
Lawrence Solum |
University of Virginia |
880 |
67 |
|
13 |
Martin Redish |
Northwestern University |
870 |
76 |
|
14 |
Sanford Levinson |
University of Texas, Austin |
840 |
80 |
|
15 |
Barry Friedman |
New York University |
820 |
63 |
|
16 |
Steven Calabresi |
Northwestern University |
780 |
63 |
|
17 |
David A. Strauss |
University of Chicago |
770 |
69 |
|
18 |
William Baude |
University of Chicago |
700 |
39 |
|
19 |
Aziz Huq |
University of Chicago |
670 |
47 |
|
Geoffrey Stone |
University of Chicago |
670 |
75 |
|
|
Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in constitutional and public law |
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|
Richard Epstein |
New York University |
1740 |
78 |
|
|
William Eskridge, Jr. |
Yale University |
1880 |
70 |
|
|
Frederick Schauer |
University of Virginia |
1450 |
75 |
|
|
Adrian Vermeule |
Harvard University |
1280 |
53 |
|
|
Lawrence Lessig |
Harvard University |
1150 |
60 |
*Adjusted downwards based on a sample (to arrive at 1260) to reflect cites to blog posts unrelated to his scholarship (most blog posts were in fact related; those were not excluded).
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