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Top 96 law professors ranked by D-index for 2025… [CORRECTED]

…according to https://research.com./. The d-index is the H-index for discipline specific journals. Unfortunately, they don’t specify the list of discipline-specific journals, but it almost certainly does not include student-edited law reviews (but almost certainly does include all faculty-edited law-related journals, including interdisciplinary ones). Some fields are promiscuous with their citation practices (e.g., health law and bioethics, law & psychology), and some are well-represented with faculty-edited journals (e.g., international law and cognate areas), so this is kind of an apples to oranges comparison, which is why I list the scholar’s primary areas of scholarship. For ties, the order reflects the total number of citations, as well as the D-index, with faculty coming first having more citations. Only non-emeritus law faculty are listed.

RankFaculty memberSchoolD-IndexField
1Cass SunsteinHarvard138Public law, behavior law & economics
2Martha NussbaumChicago111Law & Philosophy
3Lawrence GostinGeorgetown  90Health Law
4Eric PosnerChicago  85Law & Economics, International Law, Contracts, Antitrust
5John MonahanVirginia  81Law & Psychology
6W. Kip ViscusiVanderbilt  79Law & Economics
 Jeffrey FaganColumbia  79Criminal justice system
8Lucian BebchukHarvard  78Corporate, Law & Economics
9Steven ShavellHarvard  76Law & Economics
10Bernard BlackNorthwestern  67Law & Economics, Corporate, Empirical Legal Studies
 Michelle MelloStanford  67Health Law
12Mark LemleyStanford  62Intellectual Property, Law & Technology
13David StuddertStanford  61Health Law
14.Charles SabelColumbia  60Law & Social Science
15Jeremy WaldronNYU  57Law & Philosophy
 Richard EpsteinNYU/Chicago  57Public law, Law & Economics, Torts
17Dan KahanYale  54Law & Psychology, Criminal Law
18Tom GinsburgChicago  53International & Comparative Law, Law & Social Science
19Beth SimmonsPenn  50International Law
20Lee EpsteinWash U/St. Louis  48Law & Politics, Em;pirical Legal Studies
 Michael SaksArizona State  48Law & Psychology, Evidence
22Robert MacCounStanford  47Law & Psychology
23Gregory CaldeiraOhio State  45Law & Politics
 Bernard HarcourtColumbia  45Criminal Law, Criminal justice system
25Scott BurrisTemple  45Health Law
26Joseph WeilerNYU  44International & Comparative Law
27David GarlandNYU  43Law & Social Science
 Alan SykesStanford  43International Law, Law & Economics
 Louis KaplowHarvard  43Law & Economics, Tax
30A Mitchell PolinskyStanford  41Law & Economics
31I Glenn CohenHarvard39Health Law, Bioethics
32Ian AyresYale38Law & Economics
33Richard DelgadoSeattle37Critical Race Theory
 Mark RoeHarvard37Corporate
 Gregory ShafferGeorgetown37International Law
36Yochai BenklerHarvard36Intellectual Property, Law & Technology
 Jonathan MaceyYale36Corporate, Law & Economics
 John DonohueStanford36Law & Economics
 Petros MavroidisColumbia36International Law
 Philip AlstonNYU36International Law
 Robert HowseNYU36International Law
42J.B. RuhlVanderbilt35Environmental Law
43Jack BalkinYale34Constitutional Law, Law & Technology
 Katharina PistorColumbia34Comparative Law, Corporate Law
 J. Mark RamseyerHarvard34Corporate Law, Japanese Law
 Nuno GaroupaGeorge Mason34Law & Economics, Comparative Law, Empirical Legal Studies
47Reiner KraakmanHarvard33Corporate Law
 Laurence HelferDuke33International Law
 Benedict KingsburgyNYU33International Law
 Richard LeoSan Francisco33Law & Psychology/Social Science, Criminal justice system
 Douglas BairdChicago33Law & Economics, Commercial Law
52Lawrence LessigHarvard32Constitutional Law, Law & Technology
 Cary CoglianesePenn32Administrative law
 Daniel FarberBerkeley32Constitutional Law, Environmental Law
 Roberta RomanoYale32Corporate Law
 G. Mitu GulatiVirginia32Contracts, International finance & debt
57Bruce AckermanYale31Constitutional Law
 Daniel SoloveGeorge Washington31Law & Technology
 Martha FinemanEmory31Feminist Legal Theory
 Randall ThomasVanderbilt31Corporate Law
 Daniel BodanskyArizona State31International Law
 Adrian VermeuleHarvard31Constitutional Law, Administrative Law
 Pamela SamuelsonBerkeley31Intellectul Property
 Stephen ChoiNYU31Corporate Law
 Robert PostYale31Constitutional Law
66Dhamika DharmapalaBerkeley30Law & Economics, Tax
 Robert MergesBerkeley30Intellectual Property
 Paul RobinsonPenn30Criminal Law
 Shari DiamondNorthwestern30Law & Psychology, Empirical Legal Studies
 Francesco ParisiMinnesota30Law & Economics
 Randal PickerChicago30Law & Economics, Antitrust, Law & Technology
72Granne de BurcaNYU29International Law
 Herbert HovenkampPenn29Antitrust, Legal History
 William SageTexas A&M University29Health Law
 Valerie HansCornell29Law & Psychology, Empirical Legal Studies
 Harold KohYale29International Law
 Reva SiegelYale29Constitutional Law, Legal History
 Omri Ben-ShaharChicago29Law & Economics, Commerical Law
79Jeffrey RachlinskiCornell28Law & Psychology, Empirical
 Brian LeiterChicago28Law & Philosophy
 Aziz HuqChicago28Constitutional Law, Law & Society
 David KennedyHarvard28International Law
83Jack GoldsmithHarvard27International Law, National Security Law
 Curtis MilhauptStanford27Comparative Corporate Law
 George FletcherColumbia27Criminal Law
86Stephen BainbridgeUCLA26Corporate law
87Kal RaustialaUCLA25International Law
 Steven RatnerMichigan25International Law
 Peter YuTexas A&M University25Intellectual Property
 William BrattonMiami25Corporate Law
91Brian TamanahaWash U/St. Louis24Law & Society
 John CoffeeColumbia24Corporate Law
 James RyanVirginia24Education Law
 Richard McAdamsChicago24Criminal Law, Law & Social Norms
95David LubanGeorgetown23Legal Ethics, Law & Philosophy
96Ronald AllenNorthwestern20Evidence

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