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Last Updated: February 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 6 795 2,769 10,408
2 Citron, Danielle Keats University of Virginia 15 13 1,237 965 3,348
3 Stuntz, William J. 14 28 816 4,736 1,205
4 Garrett, Brandon L. Duke University 17 17 819 1,695 2,825
5 Roberts, Dorothy E. University of Pennsylvania 12 19 907 1,947 1,619
6 Sunstein, Cass Harvard University 11 23 611 3,922 1,413
7 Robinson, Paul H. University of Pennsylvania 14 31 620 3,615 1,601
8 Kerr, Orin S. Stanford University 15 21 737 3,254 1,187
9 Kahan, Dan Michael Yale University 12 30 482 4,664 885
10 Slobogin, Christopher Vanderbilt University 14 27 607 2,793 1,559
11 Alschuler, Albert W. University of Chicago 12 27 469 3,900 1,050
12 Schwartz, Joanna C. University of California, Los Angeles 16 9 995 488 1,026
13 Coase, R. H. 3 4 327 4,419 759
14 Tyler, Tom Richard Yale University 10 21 423 1,485 2,427
15 Cullen, Francis T. 6 11 154 543 4,386
16 Barkow, Rachel E. New York University 14 19 644 1,677 841
17 Leo, Richard A. University of San Francisco 10 20 253 1,894 2,299
18 Bibas, Stephanos University of Pennsylvania 12 23 487 1,970 999
19 Fagan, Jeffrey Columbia University School of Law 10 19 350 1,319 2,239
20 Wright, Ronald F. Wake Forest University 15 23 551 1,759 778
21 Green, Bruce A. Fordham University 11 23 482 1,661 1,159
22 Simonson, Jocelyn Brooklyn Law School 9 8 781 308 770
23 Schulhofer, Stephen J. New York University 9 26 237 2,974 1,184
24 Hart, H. L. A. University of Oxford 3 6 233 1,764 2,141
25 Imwinkelried, Edward J. University of California, Davis 7 25 313 2,621 776
26 Carbado, Devon W. New York University 10 13 560 999 911
27 Akbar, Amna University of Minnesota 6 3 728 148 750
28 Ferguson, Andrew Guthrie George Washington University 14 12 529 573 1,376
29 Farrington, David P. 4 7 53 206 4,114
30 Steiker, Carol Susan Harvard University 8 19 280 1,935 1,438
31 Capers, I. Bennett Fordham University 11 10 547 465 1,223
32 Tonry, Michael H. University of Minnesota 7 18 176 921 2,706
33 Mayson, Sandra G. University of Pennsylvania 10 5 588 282 1,069
34 Fuller, L. L. 3 7 207 2,060 1,419
35 Friedman, Barry New York University 12 13 448 793 1,227
36 Bellin, Jeffrey Vanderbilt University 13 13 537 453 1,063
37 Butler, Paul Georgetown University 10 13 499 1,034 721
38 McLeod, Allegra Georgetown University 8 8 528 324 1,191
39 Sklansky, David Alan 12 18 404 1,452 815
40 Coffee, John C. Jr. Columbia University School of Law 7 15 271 2,594 501
41 Perlin, Michael L. 10 21 356 1,444 919
42 Feld, Barry C. University of Minnesota 9 23 170 2,060 1,335
43 Cassell, Paul G. University of Utah 9 23 261 1,814 1,024
44 Meares, Tracey Louise Yale University 12 20 326 1,529 924
45 Allen, Ronald J. Northwestern University 8 26 248 2,083 805
46 Amar, Akhil Reed Yale University 7 17 254 2,426 479
47 Barnett, Randy E. Georgetown University 9 19 336 1,825 571
48 Chesney, Robert M. University of Texas at Austin 6 12 297 670 1,746
49 Cover, Robert M. Yale University 5 6 225 1,886 1,064
50 Posner, Richard A. University of Chicago 6 20 234 2,370 572
51 Levin, Benjamin Washington University 11 7 504 158 998
52 Bagaric, Mirko 6 9 178 285 2,542
53 Rushin, Stephen Michael Loyola University Chicago 11 10 387 324 1,364
54 Franks, Mary Anne George Washington University 9 7 381 370 1,344
55 Bassiouni, M. Cherif DePaul University 4 26 95 1,940 1,406
56 Gross, Samuel R. University of Michigan 7 17 168 2,008 970
57 Stumpf, Juliet Lewis & Clark Law School 7 9 263 816 1,490
58 Hessick, Carissa Byrne University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 12 15 423 584 841
59 Chin, Gabriel J. University of California, Davis 10 14 344 1,076 807
60 Johnson, Kevin R. University of California, Davis 9 23 235 1,626 876
61 Natapoff, Alexandra Harvard University 11 10 437 776 568
62 Baughman, Shima Baradaran Brigham Young University Law School 13 11 375 371 1,133
63 Delgado, Richard Seattle University 7 17 196 1,955 685
64 MacKinnon, Catharine A. University of Michigan 5 16 118 880 2,005
65 Rachlinski, Jeffrey J. Cornell University 7 15 221 1,609 837
66 Haney, Craig 8 19 167 1,011 1,587
67 Morse, Stephen J. University of Pennsylvania 7 23 154 1,601 1,132
68 Easterbrook, Frank H. University of Chicago 7 12 254 1,899 345
69 Zagaris, Bruce 3 13 49 367 2,718
70 Chemerinsky, Erwin University of California, Berkeley 9 20 303 1,192 686
71 Morgan, Edmund M. Yale University 4 26 62 3,073 293
72 Johnson, Sheri Lynn Cornell University 8 18 237 1,579 675
73 Kamisar, Yale 5 30 105 2,846 232
74 Gruber, Marisa Aya University of Southern California 11 15 322 596 1,029
75 Braithwaite, John 6 13 123 676 1,974
76 Huq, Aziz Z. University of Chicago 11 14 378 483 815
77 Fallon, Richard Henry Jr. Harvard University 7 9 371 1,085 334
78 Levinson, Justin D. University of Hawai'i at Manoa 10 10 300 549 1,139
79 Macey, Jonathan Yale University 9 20 205 1,934 419
80 Scott, Elizabeth S. Columbia University School of Law 9 14 277 953 858
81 Piquero, Alex R. 5 7 88 210 2,458
82 Brown, Darryl University of Virginia 9 18 272 975 818
83 Bandes, Susan A. DePaul University 9 17 199 1,139 1,046
84 Balkin, Jack M. Yale University 6 12 214 1,544 619
85 Richardson, L. Song University of California, Irvine 12 12 372 580 593
86 Amsterdam, Anthony G. New York University 4 10 116 2,590 179
87 Saks, Michael Arizona State University 7 23 120 2,037 600
88 Shavell, Steven Harvard University 6 16 225 1,826 238
89 Fletcher, George P. Columbia University School of Law 6 23 136 2,028 509
90 Ristroph, Alice Brooklyn Law School 11 11 396 374 593
91 Tribe, Laurence Henry Harvard University 7 14 137 2,295 217
92 Stevenson, Megan University of Virginia 8 5 358 204 872
93 Findley, Keith A. University of Wisconsin-Madison 7 11 144 719 1,502
94 Logan, Wayne A. Florida State University 8 22 238 1,144 633
95 Davis, Angela American University 9 8 287 724 747
96 Blume, John H. Cornell University 8 19 246 1,074 651
97 Denno, Deborah W. Fordham University 8 19 166 1,047 1,067
98 Lemley, Mark Alan Stanford University 8 8 270 1,104 485
99 Roach, Kent University of Toronto 5 13 96 576 1,834
100 Swire, Peter P. 5 9 47 298 2,327