Brian Leiter's survey of law school faculty quality based on citation counts also includes lists of the most frequently cited faculty in various legal disciplines. Here's one that will be of interest to readers of this blog:
Corporate Law/Securities Regulation
Rank |
Name |
School |
Total Articles Citing Name |
Age in 2010 |
|
1 |
John Coffee |
Columbia University |
1500 |
66 |
|
2 |
Lucian Bebchuk |
Harvard University |
1060 |
55 |
|
3 |
Larry Ribstein |
University of Illinois |
960 |
64 |
|
4 |
Stephen Bainbridge |
University of California, Los Angeles |
850 |
52 |
|
5 |
Roberta Romano |
Yale University |
780 |
58 |
|
6 |
Ronald J. Gilson |
Columbia University, Stanford University |
770 |
64 |
|
7 |
Reinier Kraakman |
Harvard University |
760 |
61 |
|
8 |
Bernard Black |
Northwestern University |
730 |
57 |
|
9 |
Donald Langevoort |
Georgetown University |
720 |
59 |
|
10 |
Robert Thompson |
Vanderbilt University |
680 |
61 |
|
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Runners-up for the top ten |
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Henry Hansmann |
Yale University |
640 |
65 |
|
|
Mark Roe |
Harvard University |
620 |
59 |
|
|
Lynn Stout |
University of Califiornia, Los Angeles |
610 |
53 |
|
|
Stephen Choi |
New York University |
600 |
44 |
|
|
Jill Fisch |
University of Pennsylvania |
600 |
50 |
