September 02, 2024

At Brian Leiter's Law School Reports, Professor Leiter has a list of the 20 most-cited constitutional law scholars over the last five years (2019-2023), based on data assembled by Gregory Sisk et al.  At least eight of the twenty are strongly originalist-oriented scholars:

3. Jack Balkin (Yale) 1800

6. Akhil Amar (Yale) 1430

7.  William Baude (Chicago) 1190

9.  Michael McConnell (Stanford) 1080

11.  Randy Barnett (Georgetown)  990

12.  Lawrence Solum (Virginia) 980

14.  Steven Calabresi (Northwestern) 890

20.  Keith Whittington (Yale)  710

(I say "at least" because I'm not sure how to classify Bruce Ackerman, who's also on the list at #10.)

Using the same methodology, here are additional highly cited originalist-oriented constitutional law scholars (min. 400 citations):

Gary Lawson (Florida) 800 [not sure why he's not on Professor Leiter's list, but perhaps he is considered primarily an administrative law scholar]

Saikrishna Prakash (Virginia) 660

John McGinnis (Northwestern) 660

John Yoo (Berkeley) 640

Caleb Nelson (Virginia) 620

Larry Alexander (San Diego) 600

Josh Blackman (South Texas)  580

Ilya Somin (George Mason)  570

Philip Hamburger (Columbia) 560

Stephen Sachs (Harvard) 530

Michael Paulsen (St. Thomas)  500

John Harrison (Virginia) 440

Michael Rappaport (San Diego) 440

I have probably forgotten someone (apologies and please let me know).

CORRECTION:  Yes, I did forget someone.  Updated to add Ilya Somin (George Mason).

Posted at 6:17 AM