Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law tax law faculty 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."
Tax
|
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2024 |
|
1 |
Reuven Avi-Yonah |
University of Michigan |
400 |
67 |
|
2 |
David Weisbach |
University of Chicago |
250 |
61 |
|
Daniel Shaviro |
New York University |
250 |
67 |
|
|
4 |
Dorothy Brown |
Georgetown University |
240 |
65 |
|
Lawrence Zelenak |
Duke University |
240 |
66 |
|
|
6 |
David Gamage |
University of Missouri, Columbia |
230 |
46 |
|
7 |
Darien Shanske |
University of California, Davis |
220 |
50 |
|
8 |
Anne Alstott |
Yale University |
200 |
61 |
|
9 |
Lily Batchelder |
New York University |
190 |
51 |
|
Victor Fleischer |
University of California, Irvine |
190 |
53 |
|
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Runners-up |
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Alan Auerbach |
University of California, Berkeley |
180 |
73 |
|
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Joseph Bankman |
Stanford University |
180 |
69 |
|
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Edward Zelinsky |
Cardozo Law School/Yeshiva University |
180 |
74 | |
|
Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area |
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Louis Kaplow |
Harvard University |
840 |
68 |
|
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Daniel Hemel |
New York University |
690 |
39 |
|
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Kristin Hickman |
University of Minnesota |
470 |
54 |
|
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Brian Galle |
Georgetown University |
280 |
51 |
|
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Yair Listokin |
Yale University |
210 |
49 |
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii