Rank | Name | School | Citations | Age in 2016 |
1 | John Coffee, Jr. | Columbia University | 1470 | 72 |
2 | Lucian Bebchuk | Harvard University | 1130 | 61 |
3 | Stephen Bainbridge | University of California, Los Angeles | 1010 | 58 |
4 | Reinier Kraakman | Harvard University | 820 | 67 |
5 | Stephen Choi | New York University | 780 | 50 |
6 | Donald Langevoort | Georgetown University | 770 | 65 |
7 | Ronald Gilson | Columbia University | 760 | 70 |
8 | Lynn Stout | Cornell University | 750 | 59 |
9 | Roberta Romano | Yale University | 730 | 64 |
10 | Henry Hansmann | Yale University | 720 | 71 |
11 | Bernard Black | Northwestern University | 630 | 63 |
12 | James Cox | Duke University | 620 | 73 |
13 | Mark Roe | Harvard University | 600 | 65 |
14 | Jill Fisch | University of Pennsylvania | 580 | 56 |
Thomas Hazen | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 580 | 69 | |
16 | William Wilson Bratton | University of Pennsylvania | 550 | 65 |
17 | Marcel Kahan | New York University | 520 | 54 |
18 | Steven Davidoff Solomon | University of California, Berkeley | 490 | 45 |
19 | Jeffrey Gordon | Columbia University | 480 | 66 |
Robert Thompson | Georgetown University | 480 | 67 |
The preceding table of 20 most cited corporate law and securities regulation faculty in the United States comes to us from Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports. It is based on data from the 2015 Sisk study.