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Last Updated: December 2025

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Rank Name Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Imwinkelried, Edward J. University of California, Davis 9 25 364 2,471 854
2 Leo, Richard A. University of San Francisco 10 17 290 1,467 1,811
3 Garrett, Brandon L. Duke University 10 10 348 1,042 1,341
4 Morgan, Edmund M. Yale University 4 25 67 2,954 323
5 Allen, Ronald J. Northwestern University 8 20 236 1,430 744
6 Saks, Michael Arizona State University 8 22 147 1,977 612
7 Giannelli, Paul C. Case Western Reserve University 6 16 126 1,704 832
8 Rachlinski, Jeffrey J. Cornell University 6 9 209 1,122 542
9 Slobogin, Christopher Vanderbilt University 10 15 260 1,013 375
10 Kerr, Orin S. Stanford University 7 9 262 927 409
11 Bebchuk, Lucian Arye Harvard University 8 12 224 1,142 213
12 Guthrie, Chris Vanderbilt University 5 6 181 887 643
13 Faigman, David L. University of California, San Francisco 7 18 167 1,147 388
14 Gross, Samuel R. University of Michigan 7 12 136 1,174 512
15 Drizin, Steven A. Northwestern University 5 9 142 674 924
16 Lemley, Mark Alan Stanford University 7 6 214 945 308
17 Friedman, Richard D. University of Michigan 6 19 118 1,250 407
18 Amar, Akhil Reed Yale University 4 6 169 1,247 143
19 Findley, Keith A. University of Wisconsin-Madison 6 6 120 419 1,148
20 Starr, Sonja B. University of Chicago 6 4 259 217 539
21 Fischel, Daniel R. University of Chicago 4 4 159 1,023 207
22 Cassell, Paul G. University of Utah 6 12 118 935 416
23 Solum, Lawrence B. University of Virginia 4 4 270 124 340
24 Koehler, Jonathan J. Northwestern University 6 15 72 720 672
25 Calabresi, Steven Northwestern University 3 2 190 639 160
26 Bellin, Jeffrey William & Mary Law School 9 9 224 215 375
27 Heller, Michael Adam Columbia University School of Law 3 3 150 813 135
28 Subramanian, Guhan Harvard University 6 9 141 683 290
29 Krieger, Linda Hamilton University of Hawai'i at Manoa 3 5 142 785 182
30 Romano, Roberta Yale University 5 5 115 908 157
31 Pardo, Michael S. Georgetown University 7 11 152 454 403
32 Prakash, Saikrishna Bangalore University of Virginia 1 2 164 640 143
33 Easterbrook, Frank H. University of Chicago 3 4 135 708 198
34 Bandes, Susan A. DePaul University 6 10 124 430 490
35 Levinson, Justin D. University of Hawai'i at Manoa 4 5 143 311 479
36 Mnookin, Jennifer University of Wisconsin-Madison 6 12 95 515 507
37 Black, Bernard Northwestern University 6 9 119 675 229
38 Ferguson, Andrew Guthrie George Washington University 8 7 185 232 301
39 Tribe, Laurence Henry Harvard University 2 4 59 1,102 80
40 Coffee, John C. Jr. Columbia University School of Law 3 2 140 495 237
41 Cheng, Edward K. Vanderbilt University 6 10 133 316 432
42 Ayres, Ian Yale University 6 8 100 731 170
43 Stevenson, Megan University of Virginia 3 2 215 75 221
44 Capra, Daniel J. Fordham University 7 7 139 255 394
45 Mosteller, Robert P. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 4 15 55 827 229
46 Roth, Andrea L. University of California, Berkeley 5 5 165 143 348
47 Jacobi, Tonja Emory University 7 9 151 235 289
48 Park, Roger C. University of California, San Francisco 4 15 57 779 200
49 Dripps, Donald Andrew University of San Diego 6 13 92 616 186
50 Kahan, Dan Michael Yale University 5 5 103 585 164
51 Hans, Valerie P. Cornell University 6 11 94 486 286
52 Burke, Alafair Hofstra University 5 8 127 392 206
53 Posner, Richard A. University of Chicago 4 9 80 653 159
54 Heaton, Paul University of Pennsylvania 3 1 172 68 263
55 Barnett, Randy E. Georgetown University 4 6 99 564 132
56 Coates, John IV Harvard University 5 9 79 622 166
57 Schwartz, Alan Yale University 4 2 107 485 151
58 Bernstein, David E. George Mason University 6 12 94 459 223
59 Loftus, Elizabeth F. University of California, Irvine 3 12 26 317 687
60 Nesson, Charles R. Harvard University 3 7 53 784 70
61 Langbein, John H. Yale University 4 3 77 538 188
62 Monahan, John University of Virginia 5 9 88 537 129
63 Epstein, Deborah Georgetown University 3 3 125 63 406
64 Ely, John Hart Yale University 2 2 40 884 25
65 Sundby, Scott E. University of Miami 5 9 79 548 138
66 Marcus, Richard L. University of California, San Francisco 4 10 56 736 66
67 Sanders, Joseph University of Houston 4 13 46 643 185
68 Alschuler, Albert W. University of Chicago 6 10 66 614 107
69 Green, Bruce A. Fordham University 6 9 115 288 185
70 Goodman, Lisa A. Texas A&M University 2 2 117 61 400
71 Diamond, Shari Seidman Northwestern University 5 9 68 365 333
72 Harcourt, Bernard Columbia University School of Law 2 4 52 318 440
73 Mayson, Sandra G. University of Pennsylvania 1 1 152 66 195
74 Macey, Jonathan Yale University 5 6 77 561 67
75 Paulsen, Michael University of St. Thomas 2 3 47 548 224
76 Braman, Donald George Washington University 4 4 85 424 146
77 Simon-Kerr, Julia Ann University of Connecticut 6 4 101 36 433
78 Henderson, Stephen E. University of Oklahoma 6 9 94 346 148
79 Lynch, Gerard Edmund Columbia University School of Law 3 3 72 392 205
80 Kaplow, Louis Harvard University 5 7 72 338 250
81 Carbado, Devon W. New York University 3 1 153 48 142
82 Mahoney, Martha Ruth University of Miami 2 1 44 692 33
83 Damaska, Mirjan R. Yale University 4 7 36 502 248
84 Orenstein, Aviva A. Indiana University Bloomington 5 8 64 463 122
85 Sag, Matthew Emory University 3 2 55 60 549
86 Solove, Daniel J. George Washington University 2 1 71 239 302
87 Nance, Dale A. Case Western Reserve University 4 12 56 409 202
88 Capers, I. Bennett Fordham University 4 5 106 98 262
89 Kang, Jerry University of California, Los Angeles 2 2 77 468 40
90 Blume, John H. Cornell University 5 9 91 238 175
91 Murphy, Erin E. New York University 5 6 84 221 226
92 Sunstein, Cass Harvard University 4 4 79 108 355
93 Saltzburg, Stephen A. George Washington University 3 8 32 469 233
94 Donohue, John J. III Stanford University 5 5 78 331 135
95 Mnookin, Robert Harvard University 2 4 34 651 39
96 Fishman, Clifford Catholic University of America 2 5 21 103 626
97 Natapoff, Alexandra Harvard University 5 4 90 233 165
98 Choi, Stephen New York University 5 8 59 401 143
99 Delgado, Richard Seattle University 3 6 32 612 65
100 Vidmar, Neil Duke University 3 9 35 324 306