Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited family 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."
Family law
|
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2024 |
|
1 |
Douglas NeJaime |
Yale University |
520 |
46 |
|
2 |
Melissa Murray |
New York University |
510 |
49 |
|
3 |
Naomi Cahn |
University of Virginia |
450 |
66 |
|
4 |
Martha Fineman |
Emory University |
410 |
74 |
|
5 |
June Carbone |
University of Minnesota |
300 |
70 |
|
6 |
Joanna Grossman |
Southern Methodist University |
290 |
56 |
|
7 |
Leigh Goodmark |
University of Maryland |
250 |
54 |
|
8 |
Clare Huntington |
Columbia University |
240 |
57 |
|
9 |
Courtney Joslin |
University of California, Davis |
220 |
51 |
|
10 |
Mark Strasser |
Capital University |
210 |
69 |
|
Robin Wilson |
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
210 |
56 |
|
|
Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area |
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|
Martha Minow |
Harvard University |
680 |
70 |
|
|
I. Glenn Cohen |
Harvard University |
530 |
46 |
|
|
Angela Onwuachi-Willig |
Boston University |
430 |
51 |
|
|
Janet Halley |
Harvard University |
280 |
72 |
|
|
Linda McClain |
Boston University |
210 |
66 |
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii