Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the fifteen most-cited law faculty in "law & social science" (excluding economics; including "law & society," "empirical legal studies," sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology) in the U.S. for the period 2019-2023 (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. 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."
Law & Social Science (excluding economics, and including “law & society,” “empirical legal studies,” sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology)
|
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2024 |
|
1 |
Tom Ginsburg |
University of Chicago |
880 |
56 |
|
2 |
Lee Epstein |
University of Southern California |
650 |
66 |
|
Jeffrey Rachlinski |
Cornell University |
650 |
58 |
|
|
4 |
David Hoffman |
University of Pennsylvania |
590 |
48 |
|
5 |
Chris Guthrie |
Vanderbilt University |
490 |
57 |
|
6 |
Justin Levinson |
University of Hawaii |
460 |
50 |
|
7 |
Jonathan Simon |
University of California, Berkeley |
430 |
65 |
|
8 |
Anne Joseph O’Connell |
Stanford University |
400 |
54 |
|
9 |
Charles Sabel |
Columbia University |
370 |
77 |
|
10 |
Adam Chilton |
University of Chicago |
320 |
40 |
|
Michael Heise |
Cornell University |
320 |
62 |
|
|
Daniel Ho |
Stanford University |
320 |
45 |
|
|
13 |
Jennifer Robbenolt |
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
310 |
55 |
|
14 |
Sean Fahrang |
University of California, Berkeley |
300 |
56 |
|
15 |
Mila Versteeg |
University of Virginia |
290 |
40 |
|
Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area |
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|
Dorothy Roberts |
University of Pennsylvania |
1100 |
68 |
|
|
Dan Kahan |
Yale University |
670 |
61 |
|
|
G. Mitu Gulati |
University of Virginia |
590 |
56 |
|
|
Bernard Black |
Northwestern University |
420 |
71 |
|
|
Carrie Menkel-Meadow |
University of California, Irvine |
380 |
75 |
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii