20 Most-Cited Critical Theories of Law Faculty in the U.S., 2016-2020

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20 Most-Cited Critical Theories of Law Faculty in the U.S., 2016-2020

10/25/2021

Brian Leiter

Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the twenty most-cited law faculty in critical theories of law (including Critical Race Theory and feminist legal theory) 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."

Critical Theories of Law: Feminist and Critical Race

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Age in 2021
1	Kimberle Crenshaw	Columbia University; University of California, Los Angeles	810	62
2	Devon Carbado	University of California, Los Angeles	680	55
3	Martha Minow	Harvard University	660	67
4	Richard Delgado	University of Alabama	650	81
5	Catharine MacKinnon	University of Michigan	630	75
	Dorothy Roberts	University of Pennsylvania	630	65
7	Ian Haney Lopez	University of California, Berkeley	480	57
	Robin West	Georgetown University	480	67
9	Jerry Kang	University of California, Los Angeles	470	53
10	Martha Fineman	Emory University	430	71
11	Joan Williams	University of California, Hastings	370	69
12	Janet Halley	Harvard University	330	69
13	Cheryl Harris	University of California, Los Angeles	310	69
14	Mari Matsuda	University of Hawaii	300	65
	Angela Onwuachi-Willig	Boston University	300	48
16	Nancy Leong	University of Denver	290	42
17	Jean Stefancic	University of Alabama	260	81
18	Ruth Colker	Ohio State University	250	65
	Katherine Franke	Columbia University	250	62
20	Patricia Williams	Northeastern University	210	70
		Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in these areas
	Martha Nussbaum	University of Chicago	720	74
	G. Mitu Gulati	University of Virginia	640	55
	Kevin Johnson	University of California, Davis	560	63
	Gabriel (“Jack”) Chin	University of California, Davis	520	57
	Gerald Torres	Yale University	220	69

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20 Most-Cited Critical Theories of Law Faculty in the U.S., 2016-2020

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