Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law faculty in law & philosophy 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 & Philosophy
|
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2024 |
|
1 |
Jeremy Waldron |
New York University |
1010 |
71 |
|
2 |
Martha Nussbaum |
University of Chicago |
660 |
77 |
|
3 |
Brian Leiter |
University of Chicago |
410* |
61 |
|
4 |
Michael S. Moore |
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
360 |
81 |
|
5 |
Scott Shapiro |
Yale University |
340 |
58 |
|
6 |
Seana Shiffrin |
University of California, Los Angeles |
240 |
55 |
|
7 |
Kimberly Kessler Ferzan |
University of Pennsylvania |
200 |
53 |
|
8 |
Brian Bix |
University of Minnesota |
170 |
62 |
|
Andrei Marmor |
Cornell University |
170 |
65 |
|
|
10 |
Heidi Hurd |
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
160 |
63 |
|
Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area** |
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|
Lawrence Solum |
University of Virginia |
980 |
70 |
|
|
Benjamin Zipursky |
Fordham University |
500 |
64 |
|
|
David Luban |
Georgetown University |
470 |
75 |
|
|
Mitchell Berman |
University of Pennsylvania |
370 |
58 |
|
|
Matthew Adler |
Duke University |
340 |
62 |
* Raw count adjusted downward (to arrive at 410) based on a sample of results, to eliminate citations to blogs unrelated to law & philosophy work (a very small number were related).
**Larry Alexander would have appeared on the “other highly-cited scholars” list, but he decided to retire September 1; he was part of the Sisk study since last Spring he had not announced an intention to retire.
Then my question is how many of ordinary mathematicians also qualify as artists of their profession…