World Scientist and University Rankings 2023

United States Scientist and University Law / Law and Legal Studies Rankings 2023

AD Scientific Index analyzes academic studies from 1 countries, 361 universities/institutions, and 1.856 scientists by using numerous criteria to present results to be used for the evaluation of productivity and efficiency by individuals and institutions. In addition to sorting by the “total H-index” you can find here, you can examine several rankings and analyses by the "last 5 years H-index", "total i10 index", "last 5 years' i10 index", "total number of citations", and “last 5 years’ citations”. Please read the methodology section for “Limitations and Possible Reasons Why a Scientist Is Not on This List”. Click for registration.

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				AD Scientific Index - World Scientist Rankings - 2023				H INDEX			i10 INDEX			CITATION
University / Institution	Country	Region	World	Name	Country	University / Institution	Subject	Total	Last 5 year	Last 5 year/total	Total	Last 5 year	Last 5 year/total	Total	Last 5 year	Last 5 year/total
15	706	757	1490	Tom Tyler	United States	Yale University	Law / Law and Legal Studies legal psychology \|	141	99	0.702	359	267	0.744	126982	45919	0.362
6	1282	1373	2572	Francis T Cullen	United States	University of Cincinnati	Law / Law and Legal Studies Criminological Theory \| Correctional Policy \| Organization of Knowledge \|	125	78	0.624	381	308	0.808	69628	26744	0.384
14	2011	2158	4003	Daniel Nagin	United States	Carnegie Mellon University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Criminology \| Statistics \| Public Policy \|	112	73	0.652	213	177	0.831	61230	24149	0.394
27	2550	2751	5123	W Kip Viscusi	United States	Vanderbilt University	Law / Law and Legal Studies regulation \| health and safety \| law and economics \| tort liability \| risk and uncertainty \|	106	49	0.462	342	212	0.620	43292	9798	0.226
167	3395	3673	6842	Mark Lemley	United States	Stanford University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Intellectual Property \| Antitrust \| Internet Law \|	98	61	0.622	185	162	0.876	41421	11838	0.286
301	3875	4204	7887	Lucian Bebchuk	United States	Harvard University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Law and Economics \| Corporate Governance \| Corporate Finance \| Financial Economics \| Corporate Law \|	94	55	0.585	167	114	0.683	54863	17491	0.319
24	3933	4265	7993	John Monahan	United States	University of Virginia	Law / Law and Legal Studies commitment \| sentencing \| violence \| law \| risk \|	94	50	0.532	243	140	0.576	37283	8231	0.221
1	4233	4592	8612	Cathy Spatz Widom	United States	CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice	Law / Law and Legal Studies	92	63	0.685	160	124	0.775	44892	15973	0.356
9	4636	5031	9443	David Weisburd	United States	George Mason University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Criminology \| policing \| evidence based crime policy \| criminal justice \| crime prevention \|	90	68	0.756	263	201	0.764	34357	17335	0.505
52	5186	5637	10645	Eric Posner	United States	University of Chicago	Law / Law and Legal Studies	87	53	0.609	216	167	0.773	30877	10637	0.344
5	6831	7447	14185	Richard Delgado	United States	University of Alabama	Law / Law and Legal Studies law \| humanities \| arts and sciences \| law and society \| critical race theory \|	80	40	0.500	214	114	0.533	42626	15844	0.372
52	6931	7563	14377	Raymond Paternoster	United States	University of Maryland	Law / Law and Legal Studies	80	53	0.663	146	125	0.856	27667	11337	0.410
3	7355	8017	15300	Michael G Vaughn	United States	Saint Louis University	Law / Law and Legal Studies drug abuse \| violence \| antisocial behavior \| health criminology \| school dropout \|	79	59	0.747	388	349	0.899	21946	14567	0.664
13	7375	8039	15359	Matt Delisi	United States	Iowa State University	Law / Law and Legal Studies self-control \| biosocial criminology \| homicide \| psychopathy \| temperament \|	79	59	0.747	319	269	0.843	21026	11806	0.561
159	7434	8101	15491	Charles Sabel	United States	Columbia University New York	Law / Law and Legal Studies	78	43	0.551	170	97	0.571	51973	9988	0.192
50	7535	8210	15688	Frederick Schauer	United States	University of Virginia	Law / Law and Legal Studies constitutional law \| philosophy of law \| legal reasoning \| freedom of speech and press \| law of evidence and proof \|	78	44	0.564	242	152	0.628	28218	8233	0.292
56	7545	8221	15707	Terence Thornberry	United States	University of Maryland	Law / Law and Legal Studies Criminology \|	78	44	0.564	152	109	0.717	27722	8218	0.296
138	8373	9150	17662	Susan Rose Ackerman	United States	Yale University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Law \| economics \| politics \|	75	40	0.533	192	114	0.594	32969	10180	0.309
9	8496	9284	17962	Anthony A Braga	United States	Northeastern University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Criminology \| criminal justice \| crime \| policing \|	75	59	0.787	205	155	0.756	22456	12598	0.561
146	8903	9742	18947	Jonathan Macey	United States	Yale University	Law / Law and Legal Studies	74	30	0.405	181	100	0.552	20401	3971	0.195
19	9153	10015	19493	Bonnie Fisher	United States	University of Cincinnati	Law / Law and Legal Studies Victimology \| violence against women \| campus crime \|	73	57	0.781	181	153	0.845	25373	13447	0.530
20	9156	10018	19501	Bonnie S Fisher	United States	University of Cincinnati	Law / Law and Legal Studies victimization \| VAW \| measurement \| campus crime \|	73	57	0.781	176	150	0.852	25177	13362	0.531
69	9310	10188	19867	Scott Decker	United States	Arizona State University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Gangs \| Violence \| Criminal Justice \| Criminology \|	73	54	0.740	183	124	0.678	19796	8521	0.430
99	9570	10489	20478	Jens Ludwig	United States	University of Chicago	Law / Law and Legal Studies Social policy \| data science \| behavioral science \|	72	51	0.708	156	117	0.750	24195	11734	0.485
247	10539	11550	22749	Daniel Farber	United States	University of California Berkeley	Law / Law and Legal Studies constitutional law \| environmental law \| climate change \| jurisprudence \|	70	29	0.414	187	96	0.513	19914	3431	0.172
385	10656	11685	23025	Michelle M Mello	United States	Stanford University	Law / Law and Legal Studies health law \| bioethics \| health policy \|	70	43	0.614	183	148	0.809	17334	7488	0.432
9	11475	12596	24867	Steven Penrod	United States	City University of New York	Law / Law and Legal Studies Juries \| Eyewitnesses \|	68	34	0.500	123	77	0.626	19658	4240	0.216
90	11658	12803	25352	Cassia Spohn	United States	Arizona State University	Law / Law and Legal Studies sentencing and case adjudication \|	68	49	0.721	132	108	0.818	15631	7101	0.454
230	11983	13169	26067	Herbert Hovenkamp	United States	University of Pennsylvania	Law / Law and Legal Studies antitrust \| legal history \|	67	34	0.507	183	111	0.607	19577	5033	0.257
93	12217	13433	26659	Dustin Pardini	United States	Arizona State University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Empathy/Guilt \| Psychopathy \| Conduct Disorders \| Neurobiology \|	67	51	0.761	127	124	0.976	15138	8296	0.548
276	12315	13549	26909	Daniel Rubinfeld	United States	University of California Berkeley	Law / Law and Legal Studies Antitrust \| Federalism \| Law and Economics \|	66	33	0.500	145	77	0.531	39322	8088	0.206
278	12345	13584	26987	Robert Cooter	United States	University of California Berkeley	Law / Law and Legal Studies law and economics \|	66	33	0.500	145	78	0.538	27755	5792	0.209
286	12796	14081	28118	Daniel L Rubinfeld	United States	University of California Berkeley	Law / Law and Legal Studies Antitrust \| Federalism \| Law and Economics \|	65	32	0.492	144	73	0.507	38968	7819	0.201
440	12872	14165	28249	David M Studdert	United States	Stanford University	Law / Law and Legal Studies health law \| health policy \| torts \| injury prevention \|	65	40	0.615	183	139	0.760	24987	8773	0.351
143	12913	14212	28327	Wayne Osgood	United States	Pennsylvania State University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Criminology \| Delinquency \| Adolescence \| Quantitative Methods \|	65	44	0.677	115	89	0.774	22184	7944	0.358
1	13626	15023	30165	Glenn Walters	United States	Kutztown University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Criminal Thinking \| Psychopathy \| Taxometrics \| Causal Mediation Analysis \|	64	41	0.641	298	217	0.728	15964	7054	0.442
42	14404	15912	32245	Daniel P Mears	United States	Florida State University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Criminology \|	63	49	0.778	145	128	0.883	11561	6770	0.586
157	14489	16001	32420	John Ferejohn	United States	New York University	Law / Law and Legal Studies political science \| law \|	62	33	0.532	133	67	0.504	26050	6051	0.232
331	14539	16056	32516	Richard Gonzalez	United States	University of Michigan	Law / Law and Legal Studies Judgment and decision making \| well-being \| statistics \| design heuristics. \|	62	46	0.742	146	121	0.829	21576	11743	0.544
144	14739	16274	33052	Tom Ginsburg	United States	University of Chicago	Law / Law and Legal Studies Comparative Constitutional Law \| International Law \| Asia \|	62	45	0.726	162	135	0.833	15581	8524	0.547
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36	14965	16524	33692	Geoffrey P Alpert	United States	University of South Carolina	Law / Law and Legal Studies criminal justice \| policing \| criminology \|	62	39	0.629	173	101	0.584	12291	5269	0.429
43	15287	16882	34448	Travis Pratt	United States	University of Cincinnati	Law / Law and Legal Studies Criminology \| Criminal Justice \| Self-Control \| Victimization \| Correctional Policy \|	61	48	0.787	109	93	0.853	16681	8573	0.514
188	15882	17545	35931	Lee Epstein	United States	University of Southern California	Law / Law and Legal Studies Law \| Political Science \| Judicial Behavior \|	60	36	0.600	132	90	0.682	20110	6230	0.310
172	15887	17553	35959	Philip Alston	United States	New York University	Law / Law and Legal Studies human rights \| international law \| international humanitarian law \| poverty \|	60	40	0.667	146	92	0.630	19601	6156	0.314
50	16692	18487	38008	Ralph B Taylor	United States	Temple University	Law / Law and Legal Studies criminology criminal justice \|	59	37	0.627	121	84	0.694	17059	5191	0.304
188	17659	19562	40445	Carrie Menkel Meadow	United States	University of California Irvine	Law / Law and Legal Studies Law. Dispute Resolution \| Conflict Resolution \| International law \|	58	26	0.448	127	77	0.606	13433	3066	0.228
50	17726	19642	40658	Edward Latessa	United States	University of Cincinnati	Law / Law and Legal Studies crime \|	58	40	0.690	162	100	0.617	12709	5104	0.402
55	18010	19965	41495	Jason A Colquitt	United States	University of Notre Dame	Law / Law and Legal Studies Justice \| trust \| personality \|	57	51	0.895	79	72	0.911	51538	24739	0.480
816	18018	19974	41509	Lawrence Lessig	United States	Harvard University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Constitutional Law \| Constitutional Theory \| Corruption \| Copyright \| Internet \|	57	34	0.596	165	70	0.424	42109	11059	0.263
145	18110	20074	41689	Alfred Blumstein	United States	Carnegie Mellon University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Criminology \| Operations Research \|	57	33	0.579	123	67	0.545	22079	5113	0.232
1	18279	20262	42034	J Mitchell Miller	United States	University of North Florida	Law / Law and Legal Studies criminology \| drugs & crime \|	57	38	0.667	174	118	0.678	15718	6273	0.399
55	18750	20797	43380	John K Cochran	United States	University of South Florida	Law / Law and Legal Studies Criminological theory \| capital punishment \|	57	36	0.632	109	93	0.853	10261	3554	0.346
394	19157	21263	44390	Pamela Samuelson	United States	University of California Berkeley	Law / Law and Legal Studies intellectual property \| copyright \| information policy \|	56	29	0.518	147	59	0.401	14323	3177	0.222
38	19289	21411	44736	Carlos A Garcia	United States	George Washington University	Law / Law and Legal Studies	56	35	0.625	262	113	0.431	12752	4529	0.355
596	19297	21420	44754	Robert Maccoun	United States	Stanford University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Law & Psychology \| Judgment & Decision Making \| Group Behavior \|	56	36	0.643	121	63	0.521	12673	4025	0.318
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209	19452	21594	45184	John R Hipp	United States	University of California Irvine	Law / Law and Legal Studies Neighborhoods and crime \| criminology \| sociology \| urban studies \|	56	49	0.875	118	114	0.966	11365	6964	0.613
172	19704	21898	45993	John H Laub	United States	University of Maryland	Law / Law and Legal Studies Life Course Criminology \| History of Criminology \| Crime and Public Policy \|	55	38	0.691	101	70	0.693	37918	12583	0.332
378	20145	22385	47062	Gary T Marx	United States	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Law / Law and Legal Studies surveillance studies \| law \| criminology and society \| socinic relations \| social movements and mass behavior \|	55	30	0.545	122	71	0.582	12256	3544	0.289
1	20362	22628	47709	Nancy Hogan	United States	Ferris State University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Corrections \| Criminological theory \| Organizational/Workplace facotrs \|	55	43	0.782	105	98	0.933	10600	6205	0.585
374	20442	22722	47928	John M Macdonald	United States	University of Pennsylvania	Law / Law and Legal Studies criminology \| crime \| public policy \| applied statistics \| epidemiology \|	55	43	0.782	105	92	0.876	10012	5778	0.577
217	20588	22890	48380	David Garland	United States	New York University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Punishment \| criminology \| law \| social theory \| welfare state \|	54	39	0.722	97	68	0.701	39080	13703	0.351
300	20608	22910	48422	Henry Hansmann	United States	Yale University	Law / Law and Legal Studies law and economics \| corporate law \| nonprofits \|	54	36	0.667	82	59	0.720	29189	8241	0.282
301	20679	22986	48545	Akhil Reed Amar	United States	Yale University	Law / Law and Legal Studies constitutional law \| constitutional theory \| political science \|	54	27	0.500	111	63	0.568	20533	3746	0.182
430	20961	23300	49252	Stephen Bainbridge	United States	University of California Los Angeles	Law / Law and Legal Studies corporate law \| corporate governance \| securities regulation \|	54	33	0.611	94	63	0.670	12718	3900	0.307
65	20979	23318	49294	Jerry Ratcliffe	United States	Temple University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Crime \| Policing \| Police \| Criminology \| Intelligence-led policing \|	54	42	0.778	103	89	0.864	12522	6250	0.499
184	21213	23584	49913	JB Ruhl	United States	Vanderbilt University	Law / Law and Legal Studies natural resources law \| environmental law \| ecosystem services \| complex adaptive systems \| climate change \|	54	33	0.611	117	80	0.684	10869	4422	0.407
641	21261	23637	50059	Alan Sykes	United States	Stanford University	Law / Law and Legal Studies	54	27	0.500	106	60	0.566	10537	2529	0.240
11	21440	23851	50586	James Byrne	United States	University of Massachusetts Lowell	Law / Law and Legal Studies Corrections \| criminology \| technology \| violence \|	54	36	0.667	175	120	0.686	9387	4533	0.483
24	22545	25086	53440	George E Higgins	United States	University of Louisville	Law / Law and Legal Studies Criminological Theory Testing \| Advanced Statistics \| Substance Use and Abuse \| Cybercrime \| Race and Gender Issues \|	53	38	0.717	158	132	0.835	8764	5015	0.572
404	22681	25242	53795	Beth Simmons	United States	University of Pennsylvania	Law / Law and Legal Studies international relations \| international law \| international political economy \|	52	39	0.750	82	68	0.829	25474	9732	0.382
1	22848	25428	54153	Joan C Williams	United States	University of California Hastings College of the Law	Law / Law and Legal Studies Gender Bias \| Feminist Legal Theory \| Work/Life Issues \| How Gender Bias Differs by Race \| Masculinity \|	52	34	0.654	128	81	0.633	15014	6118	0.407
155	23020	25628	54578	Richard Bonnie	United States	University of Virginia	Law / Law and Legal Studies criminal law \| mental health law \| public health law \| bioethics \| youth law \|	52	34	0.654	152	81	0.533	12367	4443	0.359
60	23257	25903	55275	Donald Langevoort	United States	Georgetown University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Securities Regulation \|	52	28	0.538	88	57	0.648	10400	2225	0.214
456	23294	25948	55408	John Yoo	United States	University of California Berkeley	Law / Law and Legal Studies law \| constitutional law \| international law \| terrorism \| separation of powers \|	52	23	0.442	106	59	0.557	10145	2171	0.214
689	23713	26429	56743	Ronald J Gilson	United States	Stanford University	Law / Law and Legal Studies	51	39	0.765	86	59	0.686	22384	5657	0.253
488	24401	27215	58587	Eugene Volokh	United States	University of California Los Angeles	Law / Law and Legal Studies Free Speech \| Religion and the Law \| Religious Freedom \| First Amendment \| Gun Rights \|	51	27	0.529	83	53	0.639	9346	2513	0.269
187	24476	27305	58839	Merry Morash	United States	Michigan State University	Law / Law and Legal Studies gender and justice \| corrections \| violence against women \|	51	36	0.706	101	79	0.782	8877	3603	0.406
23	24697	27559	59543	William Alex Pridemore	United States	University at Albany	Law / Law and Legal Studies Criminology Sociology Public Health Epidemiology \|	51	31	0.608	102	83	0.814	6595	3025	0.459
1006	24713	27575	59579	Steven Shavell	United States	Harvard University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Law \| Economics \| Accidents \| Crime \| Litigation \|	50	43	0.860	50	50	1.000	35716	7080	0.198
216	25056	27966	60305	Michael D Reisig	United States	Arizona State University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Criminology \| Crime \| Criminal Justice \|	50	40	0.800	77	71	0.922	12088	6072	0.502
60	25511	28485	61677	Allison Redlich	United States	George Mason University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Interrogations and confessions \| guilty pleas \| mental health courts \|	50	38	0.760	95	79	0.832	8888	4245	0.478
87	25654	28652	62183	Richard Dembo	United States	University of South Florida	Law / Law and Legal Studies criminology \| juvenile justice \|	50	19	0.380	175	52	0.297	8111	1699	0.209
13	25915	28950	62920	Michael G Turner	United States	University of North Carolina Charlotte	Law / Law and Legal Studies Criminology \|	49	34	0.694	71	56	0.789	18599	11127	0.598
303	26267	29342	63717	Frank Cross	United States	University of Texas Austin	Law / Law and Legal Studies law \|	49	24	0.490	111	53	0.477	11054	2465	0.223
69	26999	30185	66007	JC Barnes	United States	University of Cincinnati	Law / Law and Legal Studies crime \| biosocial criminology \| virtual reality \|	49	41	0.837	125	113	0.904	7086	4683	0.661
236	27040	30241	66188	Michael D White	United States	Arizona State University	Law / Law and Legal Studies policing \| criminal justice \|	49	37	0.755	92	80	0.870	6323	4082	0.646
272	27360	30593	66841	Grainne De Burca	United States	New York University	Law / Law and Legal Studies international law \| European union law \| international relations \| governance \|	48	28	0.583	86	59	0.686	12393	4181	0.337
317	27704	30976	67757	Michael N. Schmitt	United States	University of Texas Austin	Law / Law and Legal Studies Use of force \| humanitarian law \| law of armed conflict \| cyber \|	48	32	0.667	125	77	0.616	9423	4689	0.498
220	27713	30985	67778	Thomas J Holt	United States	Michigan State University	Law / Law and Legal Studies cybercrime \| subcultures \| computer hacking \| malicious software \| digital piracy \|	48	44	0.917	127	121	0.953	9377	6974	0.744
59	27731	31007	67840	Steve Charnovitz	United States	George Washington University	Law / Law and Legal Studies International law \|	48	21	0.438	110	40	0.364	9268	1798	0.194
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257	27765	31045	67947	Randall S Thomas	United States	Vanderbilt University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Corporate governance \| corporate law \| securities law \|	48	28	0.583	92	62	0.674	9089	3482	0.383
401	27789	31072	68010	Steven L Schwarcz	United States	Duke University	Law / Law and Legal Studies	48	28	0.583	107	67	0.626	8987	2871	0.319
174	27795	31078	68024	Anthony D Amato	United States	Northwestern University	Law / Law and Legal Studies law \|	48	17	0.354	116	40	0.345	8957	1676	0.187
60	27829	31117	68118	Martin D Schwartz	United States	George Washington University	Law / Law and Legal Studies criminology \| violence against women \|	48	27	0.563	96	53	0.552	8829	2706	0.306
9	28328	31701	69879	Marcus Felson	United States	Texas State University	Law / Law and Legal Studies crime theory \| crime data \| routine activities \|	47	32	0.681	84	53	0.631	29209	12023	0.412
2	28378	31754	69993	Kevin Nadal	United States	CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice	Law / Law and Legal Studies Psychology \|	47	46	0.979	71	67	0.944	19095	13558	0.710
304	28414	31793	70059	Bryant Garth	United States	University of California Irvine	Law / Law and Legal Studies legal profession \| globalization \| access to justice \| legal education \| international law \|	47	27	0.574	114	63	0.553	17009	6021	0.354
78	28777	32197	70957	Robin West	United States	Georgetown University	Law / Law and Legal Studies	47	25	0.532	103	51	0.495	10213	2146	0.210
81	29141	32628	72029	Lawrence Solum	United States	Georgetown University	Law / Law and Legal Studies Law \| Jurisprudence \| Legal Theory \| Procedure \| Virtue Ethics \|	47	26	0.553	83	53	0.639	8382	3603	0.430
87	29564	33131	73509	Heith Copes	United States	University of Alabama Birmingham	Law / Law and Legal Studies Criminology \|	47	36	0.766	100	82	0.820	6476	3839	0.593