Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law faculty working on immigration law (including the intersection of immigration and criminal law & procedure ["crimmigration"]) 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."
Immigration Law
|
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2021 |
|
1 |
Kevin R. Johnson |
University of California, Davis |
560 |
63 |
|
2 |
Ingrid Eagly |
University of California, Los Angeles |
430 |
51 |
|
3 |
Adam Cox |
New York University |
390 |
47 |
|
4 |
Cristina Rodriguez |
Yale University |
380 |
48 |
|
5 |
Hiroshi Motomura |
University of California, Los Angeles |
360 |
68 |
|
Gerald Neuman |
Harvard University |
360 |
69 |
|
|
7 |
Jennifer Chacon |
University of California, Berkeley |
290 |
48 |
|
8 |
Cesar Garcia Hernandez |
Ohio State University |
280 |
39 |
|
9 |
Juliet Stumpf |
Lewis & Clark College |
250 |
53 |
|
10 |
Michael Kagan |
University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
220 |
47 |
|
Other highly cited scholars who work partly in this area |
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|
Ilya Somin |
George Mason University |
590 |
48 |
|
|
Gabriel (Jack) Chin |
University of California, Davis |
520 |
57 |
|
|
Amanda Frost |
American University |
260 |
39 |




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