Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law faculty working on legal history 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."
Legal History
|
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2021 |
|
1 |
Lawrence Friedman |
Stanford University |
800 |
91 |
|
2 |
Michael Klarman |
Harvard University |
720 |
62 |
|
3 |
Phillip Hamburger |
Columbia University |
520 |
64 |
|
4 |
G. Edward White |
University of Virginia |
460 |
80 |
|
5 |
James Q. Whitman |
Yale University |
350 |
64 |
|
6 |
Stuart Banner |
University of California, Los Angeles |
280 |
58 |
|
7 |
Samuel Moyn |
Yale University |
270 |
49 |
|
8 |
William E. Forbath |
University of Texas, Austin |
260 |
69 |
|
9 |
John Witt |
Yale University |
250 |
49 |
|
10 |
Kurt Lash |
University of Richmond |
230 |
61 |
|
Christopher Tomlins |
University of California, Berkeley |
230 |
68 |
|
|
Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area |
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|
Reva Siegel |
Yale University |
1340 |
66 |
|
|
Herbert Hovenkamp |
University of Pennsylvania |
950 |
73 |
|
|
David Bernstein |
George Mason University |
450 |
55 |
|
|
Mark Graber |
University of Maryland |
380 |
65 |
This list is–unsurprisingly given the Westlaw database is dominated by U.S. law journals–skewed towards those working on American legal history, with the result that very distinguished legal historians working on non-U.S. topics (e.g., James Gordley at Tulane, or my colleague RH. Helmholz) do not appear.
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