The Blog Emperor has the details.  Those are some big numbers!  Their Dean Ken Randall is experienced and savvy (he oversaw Alabama's rise to distinction in the early 2000s), but will have his work cut out for him.

Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the twenty most-cited law corporate law & securities 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." 

CORPORATE LAW & SECURITIES REGULATION

This is another field, like tax, where some really first-rate scholars are not represented on the most-cited list.  Robert Bartlett at Stanford and Paul Mahoney at Virginia are two examples that immediately leap to mind.  These most-cited lists certainly always pick out many of the genuinely leading figures, but there is no substitute for expert evaluation of written work when it comes to appointments!