America 2000-2007 law character influence ranking

                              Liu Shuangzhou

   See "list of famous contemporary China law" in Law blog today (second batch). Some of them are acquaintances, their achievements I still admire, but some do not quite understand, even not heard, of course this is mainly due to my with very limited knowledge and scanty information, make not privately that the list of contributions.

   But there is one thing I still don't understand, namely in the results published at the same time, why not use the criteria also released it, clear standards, this is not in favor of "backward" clear goals and motivate them to learn and emulate the masters?

    Keen on the ranking is not the unique preferences, Americans also love to engage in this set, who to who to learn? This may or may not be important. But the Americans engaged in ranking points and chinese:

   One is that they will bear a period of validity, namely tell you this is the time of the rankings, but unlike the people engage in tenure, the list only batches, without limitation, the impression is, as long as the master list, will always be famous;

    Two Americans in the published rankings, also will announce the list of evaluation criteria, evaluation standard is very clear, is your academic article cited the number. How are you on the list, you in several platoon, be crystal clear. Not only the public understand, on the list do not because the order of appearance and not convinced causing a new dispute. Of course, Chinese people are very smart, with a "arranged" to solve the problem, but this is just to solve the surface problem, essentially who first problem is not solved.

   The following extract is American during 2000-2007 law character influence rankings (subject), despise CaiShuXueJian, do not know whether it should be translated as "list of contemporary masters" law America?

   You have a look.

                                  BUSINESS LAW

(including corporate, securities regulation, commercial law, bankruptcy, antitrust)

Because this encompasses a huge range of really quite different topics, we list here the top 20 scholars working in some aspect of this broad area 

1 John Coffee (Columbia University): 2020 citations, age 63 

2 Jonathan Macey (Yale University): 1600 citations, age 52 

3 Robert Scott (Columbia University): 1390 citations, age 63 

4 Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard University): 1140 citations, age 52 

5 Ronald J. Gilson (Columbia University, Stanford University): 1080 citations, age 61 

6 Larry Ribstein (University of Illinois): 950 citations, age 61 

7 Alan Schwartz (Yale University): 930 citations, age 67 

8 Reinier Kraakman (Harvard University): 920 citations, age 58

8 Donald Langevoort (Georgetown University): 920 citations, age 56 

8 Roberta Romano (Yale University): 920 citations, age 55 

11 Bernard Black (University of Texas): 880 citations, age 54 

12 Douglas Baird (University of Chicago): 850 citations, age 54 

13 Mark Roe (Harvard University), citations 800, age 56

14 Stephen Bainbridge (University of California, Los Angeles), 770 citations, age 49 

15 Henry Hansmann (Yale University), citations 740, age 62 

16 Lynn Stout (University of California, Los Angeles), 730 citations, age 50 

17 Lynn LoPucki (University of California, Los Angeles), 700 citations, age 63 

18 James J. White (University of Michigan), citations 700, age 73 

19 Elizabeth Warren (Harvard University), 680 citations, age 58 

20 Jay L. Westbrook (University of Texas), 660 citations, age 64 

                               CIVIL PROCEDURE

 (excluding evidence [see below]) 

1 Arthur R. Miller (New York University), 1320 citations, age 73 

2 Judith Resnik (Yale University), 1060 citations, age 57 

3 David Shapiro (Harvard University), citations 830, age 75 

4 Deborah Hensler (Stanford University), citations 620, age 65 

5 Kevin Clermont (Cornell University), citations 490, age 62 

6 Stephen Burbank (University of Pennsylvania), 450 citations, age 60 

6 Richard Marcus (University of California, Hastings), 450 citations, age 59 

8 Linda Mullenix (University of Texas), citations 420, age 57 

9 Edward Cooper (University of Michigan), citations 380, age 66 

9 William L Reynolds (University of Maryland), 380 citations, age 62 

9 Linda Silberman (New York University), citations 380, age 63

 

                          CONSTITUTIONAL and PUBLIC LAW 

Since this is a large category including not only constitutional law and theory, but also legislation, statutory interpretation, voting rights, and administrative law, among other public law fields we list the twenty most-cited scholars

1Cass Sunstein (University of Chicago):6180 citations, age 53 

2Laurence Tribe (Harvard University):3520 citations, age 66 

3Erwin Chemerinsky (University of California, Irvine):3280 citations, age 54

4William Eskridge (Yale University):2810 citations, age 56 

5Mark Tushnet (Harvard University):2780 citations, age 62 

6Kathleen Sullivan (Stanford University):2660 citations, age 52 

7Bruce Ackerman (Yale University):2550 citations, age 64 

8Akhil Amar (Yale University):2470 citations, age 49 

9Daniel Farber (University of California, Berkeley):2410 citations, age 57 

10 Richard Fallon (Harvard University):1640 citations, age 55 

10 Robert Post (Yale University):1640 citations, age 60 

12 Philip Frickey (University of California, Berkeley): 1560 citations, age 54 

13 Sanford Levinson (University of Texas): 1510 citations, age 66 

14 Owen Fiss (Yale University): 1480 citations, age 69 

15 Jack Balkin (Yale University): 1450 citations, age 50 

16 Michael Dorf (Columbia University): 1370 citations, age 43 

17 Frank Michelman (Harvard University): 1360 citations, age 71 

18 Martin Redish (Northwestern University): 1280 citations, age 62

19 Eugene Volokh (University of California, Los Angeles): 1270 citations, age 39

20 Larry Kramer (Stanford University): 1260 citations, age 49

 

                          CRIMINAL LAW and PROCEDURE 

Because this encompasses a huge range of really quite different topics (from criminal law theory, to policing policy, to constitutional criminal procedure, to federal criminal law), we list here the top 20 scholars working in some aspect of this broad area 

1 Dan Kahan (Yale University), 1070 citations, age 44 

2 Robert Weisberg (Stanford University), citations 1060, age 61 

3 George Fletcher (Columbia University), citations 1040, age 68 

4 William Stuntz (Harvard University), citations 970, age 49 

5 Stephen Schulhofer (New York University), citations 870, age 65

6 Albert Alschuler (Northwestern University), 820 citations, age 67

7 Michael Tonry (University of Minnesota), 810 citations, age 62 

8 Joshua Dressler (Ohio State University), citations 790, age 60 

9 Paul Robinson (University of Pennsylvania), citations 770, age 59

10 James S. Liebman (Columbia University), citations 740, age 55

11 Christopher Slobogin (University of Florida), citations 680, age 56

12 Samuel Gross (University of Michigan), citations 650, age 61 

12 Richard H. McAdams (University of Chicago): 650 citations, age 47

14 Anthony Amsterdam (New York University), 610 citations, age 72 

15 David A. Harris (University of Pittsburgh), 590 citations, age 50 

16 Yale Kamisar (University of San Diego), 550 citations, age 78 

17 Stephen Saltzburg (George Washington University), 520 citations, age 62 

18 George C. Thomas III (Rutgers University, Newark), 520 citations, age 60 

19 Susan Bandes (DePaul University), citations 500, age 56 

20 Carol Steiker (Harvard University), citations 490, age 49

 

 

Data source: http://www.leiterrankings.com