Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law faculty working in election law in the U.S. for the period 2016-2020 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2021, and that the pre-2021 database did expand a bit since then). Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten. Faculty for whom roughly 75% or more of their citations (based on a sample) are in this area are listed; others with less than 75% of their citations in this field (but still a plurality) are listed in the category of “other highly cited scholars who work partly in this area.”
Election Law
Rank | Name | School | Citations | Age in 2021 |
1 | Samuel Issacharoff | New York University | 830 | 67 |
2 | Richard Pildes | New York University | 790 | 64 |
3 | Richard Hasen | University of California, Irvine | 750 | 57 |
4 | Heather Gerken | Yale University | 620 | 52 |
5 | Richard Briffault | Columbia University | 530 | 67 |
6 | Nathaniel Persily | Stanford University | 320 | 51 |
7 | Nicholas Stephanopoulos | Harvard University | 290 | 41 |
8 | Michael Kang | Northwestern University | 240 | 48 |
9 | James Gardner | University at Buffalo, State University of New York | 220 | 62 |
10 | Daniel Tokaji | University of Wisconsin, Madison | 210 | 54 |
Runner-up for the top 10 | ||||
Justin Levitt | Loyola Law School, Los Angeles | 200 | 47 | |
Other highly cited scholars who work partly in this area | ||||
Samuel Bagenstos | University of Michigan | 540 | 51 | |
Adam Cox | New York University | 390 | 47 |