Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited active law professors in the U.S. for the period 2016-2020 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2024, and that the pre-2024 database did expand a bit since then). Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten. (Law professors not teaching in 2024-25–e.g.,those who are now retired, in government service, etc.–are not included [faculty merely on sabbatical are counted].)
Ten Most Cited Law Faculty Overall, 2019-2023
|
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Area(s) |
Age in 2024 |
|
1 |
Cass Sunstein |
Harvard University |
4260 |
Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Behavioral Law & Economics |
70 |
|
2 |
Erwin Chemerinsky |
University of California, Berkeley |
2580 |
Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure |
71 |
|
3 |
Eric Posner |
University of Chicago |
2090 |
Law & Economics, International Law, Commercial Law, Contracts |
59 |
|
4 |
Jack M. Balkin |
Yale University |
1800 |
Constitutional Law, Law & Technology |
68 |
|
5 |
Mark Lemley |
Stanford University |
1770 |
Intellectual Property, Antitrust, Law & Technology |
58 |
|
6 |
William Eskridge, Jr. |
Yale University |
1660 |
Constitutional Law, Legislation/Statutory Interpretation |
73 |
|
7 |
Richard Fallon |
Harvard University |
1580 |
Constitutional Law |
72 |
|
8 |
Richard Epstein |
New York University (emeritus, University of Chicago) |
1500 |
Constitutional Law, Torts, Law & Economics |
81 |
|
9 |
Reva Siegel |
Yale University |
1440 |
Constitutional Law, Legal History |
68 |
|
10 |
Akhil Amar |
Yale University |
1430 |
Constitutional Law |
66 |
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii