Top Ten Ranking Brian Leiter's Law School Rankings

 ¶  Brian Leiter's Top 50 Most Cited Faculty Who Entered Teaching Since 1992
 ◊  Advertise Here!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rank

Scholar

Citations

School

Area

1.

Michael Dorf

860

Columbia

Public

1.

Mark Lemley

860

Berkeley

IP

3.

Eugene Volokh

810

UCLA

Public

4.

Eric Posner

720

Chicago

Law & Econ/Business

5.

Jeffrey Rosen

700

George Washington

Public

6.

Dan Kahan

690

Yale

Crim

7.

Jack Goldsmith

640

Chicago

Intern'l

8.

A. Michael Froomkin

490

Miami

IP/Public

9.

Jim Chen

480

Minnesota

Public/Business

9.

Steven Croley

480

Michigan

Private/Public

11.

John Yoo

460

Berkeley

International/Public

12.

Andrew Koppelman

450

Northwestern

Public

13.

J.B. Ruhl

440

Florida State

Environ

14.

Ian Haney Lopez

430

Berkeley

Crit Race Th

15.

Curtis Bradley

420

Virginia

Intern'l

16.

William Rubinstein

400

UCLA

Public/Gay Leg St

17.

Keith Aoki

390

Oregon

Crit Race Th

17.

John Harrison

390

Virginia

Public

19.

Peter Spiro

380

Hofstra

Immigration, Intern'l

20.

Jon Hanson

370

Harvard

Private/Law & Econ

20.

Robert Chang

370

Loyola/Los Angeles

Crit Race Th

22.

Christine Jolls

340

Harvard

Law & Econ

23.

Katherine Franke

330

Columbia

Fem Th

24.

Neal Katyal

320

Georgetown

Public

24.

Russell Korobkin

320

UCLA

Law & Econ/Private

26.

Paul Butler

310

George Washington

Crit Race Th

26.

Sai Prakash

310

San Diego

Public/Business

28.

Ronald Mann

300

Michigan

Business

28.

John Manning

300

Columbia

Public

28.

Neil Netanel

300

Texas

IP

31.

Matthew Adler

280

Penn

Public

31.

Vikram Amar

280

UC Hastings

Public

31.

Julie Cohen

280

Georgetown

IP

31.

Steven Ratner

280

Texas

Intern'l

35.

Stuart Banner

270

UCLA

Public/Legal Hist

35.

Gabriel Chin

270

Cincinnati

Crit Race Th

35.

Mitu Gulati

270

Georgetown

Business/Race Issues

38.

Eric Talley

260

Southern Cal

Law & Econ/Business

39.

David Bernstein

250

George Mason

Public/Evidence

39.

Elizabeth Garrett

250

Chicago

Public

39.

Richard Hasen

250

Loyola/Los Angeles

Public

39.

Jeffrey Rachlinski

250

Cornell

Law & Psychology

43.

Raj Bhala

240

George Washington

Business/Intern'l

44.

Howard Chang

230

Penn

Law & Econ/Immig

44.

Karen Engle

230

Texas

Intern'l/Fem Th

44.

Jerry Kang

230

UCLA

Public/IP

44.

Nelson Lund

230

George Mason

Public

44.

Tracey Meares

230

Chicago

Crim

44.

Jim Rossi

230

North Carolina

Public

44.

Ernest Young

230

Texas

Public



Representation of Schools in the Top 50

Note that a school like Yale hires relatively few young faculty.

Schools

#top 50

#top 10

#top25

University of Texas, Austin

4

0

0

University of California, Los Angeles

5

1

3

Columbia University

3

1

2

University of Chicago

4

2

2

George Mason University

2

0

o

Georgetown University

3

0

1

George Washington University

3

1

2

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

3

1

1

University of California, Berkeley

3

1

3

Harvard University

2

0

2

Loyola Law School, Los Angeles

2

0

1

University of Pennsylvania

2

0

0

University of Virginia

2

0

2

Yale University

2

1

1

Cornell University

1

0

0

Florida State University

1

0

1

Hofstra University

1

0

1

Northwestern University

1

0

1

University of California, Hastings

1

0

0

University of Cincinnati

1

0

0

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

1

1

1

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

1

0

0

University of San Diego

1

0

1

University of Southern California

1

0

0

University of Miami

1

1

1

University of Oregon

1

0

1

 ◊  Site Sponsor