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Last Updated: April 2026

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Rank Name Institution h5-index h-index Articles Articles Accessed
1 Crenshaw, Kimberle Williams Columbia University School of Law 5 6 825 2,766 11,647
2 Citron, Danielle Keats University of Virginia 16 13 1,277 964 3,351
3 Stuntz, William J. 14 28 846 4,734 1,231
4 Garrett, Brandon L. Duke University 17 17 852 1,700 2,838
5 Roberts, Dorothy E. University of Pennsylvania 12 19 935 1,945 1,658
6 Kerr, Orin S. Stanford University 16 21 778 3,238 1,253
7 Robinson, Paul H. University of Pennsylvania 15 31 635 3,616 1,598
8 Sunstein, Cass Harvard University 11 23 624 3,912 1,398
9 Kahan, Dan Michael Yale University 12 30 499 4,662 933
10 Slobogin, Christopher Vanderbilt University 15 27 626 2,789 1,631
11 Alschuler, Albert W. University of Chicago 13 27 486 3,902 1,037
12 Schwartz, Joanna C. University of California, Los Angeles 16 9 1,016 488 998
13 Coase, R. H. 3 4 341 4,421 785
14 Tyler, Tom Richard Yale University 11 20 454 1,507 2,634
15 Cullen, Francis T. 7 11 167 557 4,487
16 Barkow, Rachel E. New York University 15 19 662 1,675 841
17 Bibas, Stephanos University of Pennsylvania 12 23 510 1,966 1,031
18 Leo, Richard A. University of San Francisco 10 20 271 1,895 2,304
19 Wright, Ronald F. Wake Forest University 15 23 577 1,760 847
20 Fagan, Jeffrey Columbia University School of Law 11 19 356 1,320 2,270
21 Hart, H. L. A. University of Oxford 3 6 244 1,764 2,425
22 Green, Bruce A. Fordham University 11 23 493 1,617 1,216
23 Schulhofer, Stephen J. New York University 9 26 244 2,975 1,175
24 Capers, I. Bennett Fordham University 11 11 617 528 1,190
25 Ferguson, Andrew Guthrie George Washington University 14 12 561 571 1,412
26 Imwinkelried, Edward J. University of California, Davis 7 25 315 2,617 821
27 Carbado, Devon W. New York University 11 13 584 998 857
28 Farrington, David P. 4 7 54 222 4,061
29 Steiker, Carol Susan Harvard University 9 19 284 1,936 1,303
30 Friedman, Barry New York University 12 13 478 793 1,236
31 Tonry, Michael H. University of Minnesota 9 19 212 965 2,409
32 Mayson, Sandra G. University of Pennsylvania 10 5 603 282 1,033
33 Sklansky, David Alan 12 18 422 1,452 858
34 Coffee, John C. Jr. Columbia University School of Law 7 15 284 2,594 530
35 McLeod, Allegra Georgetown University 8 8 555 324 1,153
36 Akbar, Amna University of Minnesota 6 3 698 148 575
37 Butler, Paul Georgetown University 10 13 510 1,032 732
38 Bellin, Jeffrey Vanderbilt University 13 13 552 452 1,014
39 Fuller, L. L. 3 7 212 2,059 1,321
40 Cassell, Paul G. University of Utah 9 23 267 1,812 1,160
41 Meares, Tracey Louise Yale University 12 20 341 1,529 1,020
42 Feld, Barry C. University of Minnesota 9 23 173 2,066 1,390
43 Allen, Ronald J. Northwestern University 9 26 261 2,083 874
44 Chesney, Robert M. University of Texas at Austin 6 12 311 670 1,851
45 Simonson, Jocelyn Brooklyn Law School 8 8 623 307 584
46 Cover, Robert M. Yale University 5 6 238 1,883 1,118
47 Barnett, Randy E. Georgetown University 9 19 346 1,825 586
48 Posner, Richard A. University of Chicago 7 20 251 2,369 570
49 Amar, Akhil Reed Yale University 7 17 265 2,426 446
50 Stumpf, Juliet Lewis & Clark Law School 7 9 275 816 1,789
51 Levin, Benjamin Washington University 11 7 523 158 1,098
52 Perlin, Michael L. 10 20 356 1,417 813
53 Hessick, Carissa Byrne University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 13 15 477 584 886
54 Gross, Samuel R. University of Michigan 8 17 174 2,008 972
55 Natapoff, Alexandra Harvard University 11 10 461 776 570
56 Rushin, Stephen Michael Loyola University Chicago 11 10 400 324 1,274
57 Johnson, Kevin R. University of California, Davis 9 23 241 1,626 897
58 Bassiouni, M. Cherif DePaul University 4 26 100 1,933 1,329
59 Chin, Gabriel J. University of California, Davis 10 14 357 1,075 755
60 MacKinnon, Catharine A. University of Michigan 6 15 120 835 2,165
61 Bagaric, Mirko 6 9 183 285 2,305
62 Delgado, Richard Seattle University 7 17 204 1,956 686
63 Baughman, Shima Baradaran Brigham Young University Law School 14 11 389 371 1,114
64 Easterbrook, Frank H. University of Chicago 7 12 266 1,899 353
65 Morgan, Edmund M. Yale University 4 26 63 3,074 307
66 Chemerinsky, Erwin University of California, Berkeley 9 20 309 1,189 717
67 Morse, Stephen J. University of Pennsylvania 7 23 164 1,612 1,065
68 Kamisar, Yale 5 30 106 2,847 230
69 Johnson, Sheri Lynn Cornell University 8 18 242 1,580 650
70 Rachlinski, Jeffrey J. Cornell University 8 15 221 1,609 706
71 Huq, Aziz Z. University of Chicago 11 14 396 483 807
72 Gruber, Marisa Aya University of Southern California 11 15 328 595 1,036
73 Franks, Mary Anne George Washington University 8 7 360 352 1,094
74 Braithwaite, John 6 13 138 689 1,911
75 Macey, Jonathan Yale University 9 20 209 1,932 420
76 Haney, Craig 8 19 174 1,011 1,408
77 Fallon, Richard Henry Jr. Harvard University 7 8 379 1,065 311
78 Amsterdam, Anthony G. New York University 4 11 124 2,638 203
79 Scott, Elizabeth S. Columbia University School of Law 9 14 289 953 845
80 Balkin, Jack M. Yale University 6 12 219 1,545 675
81 Brown, Darryl University of Virginia 10 18 281 973 854
82 Levinson, Justin D. University of Hawai'i at Manoa 11 10 315 548 1,057
83 Saks, Michael Arizona State University 7 24 123 2,068 622
84 Fletcher, George P. Columbia University School of Law 6 24 140 2,054 548
85 Swire, Peter P. 5 9 49 298 2,562
86 Davis, Angela American University 9 8 307 724 860
87 Bandes, Susan A. DePaul University 9 17 203 1,138 1,014
88 Piquero, Alex R. 5 7 88 219 2,407
89 Ristroph, Alice Brooklyn Law School 11 11 417 373 591
90 Richardson, L. Song University of California, Irvine 12 12 381 579 583
91 Shavell, Steven Harvard University 6 16 235 1,826 223
92 Zagaris, Bruce 3 13 48 365 2,442
93 Logan, Wayne A. Florida State University 8 22 248 1,144 694
94 Tribe, Laurence Henry Harvard University 7 14 140 2,293 221
95 Findley, Keith A. University of Wisconsin-Madison 7 11 152 718 1,539
96 Lemley, Mark Alan Stanford University 9 8 284 1,104 525
97 Stevenson, Megan University of Virginia 9 5 369 204 855
98 Blume, John H. Cornell University 8 19 251 1,075 655
99 Fischel, Daniel R. University of Chicago 7 10 186 1,869 279
100 Posner, Eric A. University of Chicago 10 16 218 1,190 692