Leiter's Top Ten Law Faculty (By Area) In Scholarly Impact, 2009-2013

Following up on Friday's post, The 10 Most-Cited Tax Faculty:  Brian Leiter (Chicago) has relased on his Law School Rankings website (a member of our Law Professor Blogs Network) an updated ranking of the 10 Most-Cited U.S. Law Faculty in 11 areas of specialization, as measured by citations during the past five years (2009-2013).

Interestingly, the 14 Tax Profs listed in the 10-Most Cited Tax Faculty and the related Highly Cited Scholars Who Work Partly in Tax lists are younger than their counterparts in the 10 other areas of specializations:  in tax, four are in their 40s, nine are in their 50s, and only one is in his 60s. 

Rank	Tax Prof	Citations	Age
1	Michael Graetz (Columbia)	400	69
	David Weisbach (Chicago)	400	50
3	Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)	350	56
4	Daniel Shaviro (NYU)	340	56
5	Leandra Lederman (Indiana)	290	47
	Larry Zelenak (Duke)	290	58
7	Victor Fleischer (San Diego)	280	42
8	Edward Zelinsky (Cardozo)	270	58
9	Joseph Bankman (Stanford)	250	58
	Edward McCaffery (USC)	250	55
	Highly Cited Scholars Who Work Partly in Tax
	Louis Kaplow (Harvard)	1100	57
	Brian Galle (Boston College)	310	43
	Kristin Hickman (Minnesota)	310	43
	Mark Gergen (UC-Berkeley)	270	57

Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:

• The Ten Most-Cited Tax Faculty (June 13, 2014)
• Phillips & Yoo: A Better Faculty Citation Rankings System (Sept. 7, 2012)
• The 18 Most-Cited Tax Faculty (May 18, 2010)
• The 15 Most-Cited Tax Faculty (Apr. 5, 2010)
• More on Faculty Citation Rankings (Nov. 28, 2007)
• The Most-Cited Tax Faculty (Nov. 16, 2007)
• Ten Most-Cited Tax Faculty (Aug. 20, 2007)

In our article, Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. 83, 120-22 (2006), Bernie Black (Northwestern) and I examined the Top 25 tax faculty as measured by SSRN downloads, a practice I update monthly on TaxProf Blog.