Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited election 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."
Election Law
|
Rank |
Name |
School |
Citations |
Age in 2024 |
|
1 |
Richard Pildes |
New York University |
790 |
67 |
|
2 |
Richard Hasen |
University of California, Los Angeles |
780 |
60 |
|
3 |
Samuel Issacharoff |
New York University |
750 |
70 |
|
4 |
Pamela Karlan |
Stanford University |
560 |
65 |
|
5 |
Heather Gerken |
Yale University |
550 |
55 |
|
6 |
Richard Briffault |
Columbia University |
480 |
70 |
|
7 |
Nathaniel Persily |
Stanford University |
330 |
54 |
|
8 |
Nicholas Stephanopoulos |
Harvard University |
320 |
44 |
|
9 |
James Gardner |
University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
250 |
65 |
|
10 |
Joshua A. Douglas |
University of Kentucky |
230 |
44 |
|
Runners-up |
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|
Guy-Uriel Charles |
Harvard University |
220 |
54 |
|
|
Daniel Tokaji |
University of Wisconsin, Madison |
220 |
57 |
|
|
Other highly cited scholars who work partly in this area |
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|
Adam Cox |
New York University |
330 |
50 |
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii