Subfield · Law
Top Law Researchers
Niklas Luhmann ranks first, out of 4,229 ranked researchers.
Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 15 works, and an institution the snapshot can resolve.
The ranking
- 1 Niklas Luhmann Germany · #53 worldwide 2.3k citations · 277 works
- 2 Richard A. Posner United States · #212 worldwide 1.9k citations · 228 works
- 3 Martha C. Nussbaum United States · #279 worldwide 1.6k citations · 260 works
- 4 Fritz W. Scharpf Germany · #718 worldwide 1.3k citations · 128 works
- 5 Franco Ferrari United States · #827 worldwide 661 citations · 139 works
- 6 Ingeborg Schwenzer Switzerland · #964 worldwide 654 citations · 124 works
- 7 András Jakab Switzerland · #1,312 worldwide 1.3k citations · 93 works
- 8 David Hume Australia · #1,397 worldwide 1.9k citations · 378 works
- 9 Tom R. Tyler United States · #1,668 worldwide 1.8k citations · 102 works
- 10 Steven Shavell United States · #1,827 worldwide 1.4k citations · 85 works
- 11 Barry R. Weingast United States · #2,644 worldwide 1.3k citations · 76 works
- 12 Boaventura de Sousa Santos Portugal · #3,057 worldwide 404 citations · 102 works
- 13 Volker Krey Austria · #3,102 worldwide 1.7k citations · 73 works
- 14 Cass R. Sunstein United States · #4,061 worldwide 2.5k citations · 336 works
- 15 Joseph Raz United Kingdom · #4,629 worldwide 579 citations · 84 works
- 16 Lucian A. Bebchuk United States · #4,717 worldwide 1.1k citations · 82 works
- 17 Jeremy Waldron United States · #5,358 worldwide 482 citations · 107 works
- 18 Günther Teubner Germany · #5,716 worldwide 465 citations · 65 works
- 19 Keith Clarke United States · #6,008 worldwide 705 citations · 85 works
- 20 James L. Gibson United States · #6,082 worldwide 665 citations · 75 works
- 21 Harold J. Berman United States · #8,292 worldwide 322 citations · 67 works
- 22 Aziz Z. Huq United States · #8,789 worldwide 457 citations · 59 works
- 23 Robert A. Kagan United States · #9,156 worldwide 569 citations · 56 works
- 24 Rhona Smith United Kingdom · #9,382 worldwide 247 citations · 87 works
- 25 Carl J. Friedrich United States · #9,672 worldwide 246 citations · 112 works
- 26 Gerhard Wagner United States · #10,342 worldwide 1.1k citations · 136 works
- 27 Andreas Føllesdal Norway · #10,455 worldwide 323 citations · 86 works
- 28 Hans Kelsen United States · #10,595 worldwide 304 citations · 103 works
- 29 Larry Alexander United States · #11,449 worldwide 325 citations · 71 works
- 30 Neil MacCormick United Kingdom · #11,804 worldwide 316 citations · 57 works
- 31 Richard Abel United States · #11,967 worldwide 290 citations · 107 works
- 32 Paul Schiff Berman United States · #12,481 worldwide 388 citations · 53 works
- 33 Roscoe Pound Philippines · #13,227 worldwide 249 citations · 100 works
- 34 Eric A. Posner United States · #13,269 worldwide 484 citations · 102 works
- 35 Michael Kirby United States · #14,453 worldwide 669 citations · 95 works
- 36 Jessica Jacobson United States · #14,845 worldwide 828 citations · 44 works
- 37 Max Rheinstein United States · #14,938 worldwide 230 citations · 93 works
- 38 Paul H. Robinson United States · #15,050 worldwide 320 citations · 79 works
- 39 Kathleen Daly Australia · #15,268 worldwide 386 citations · 59 works
- 40 Douglas G. Baird United States · #15,302 worldwide 316 citations · 52 works
- 41 Reinhard Zimmermann Germany · #15,316 worldwide 246 citations · 159 works
- 42 Karen J. Alter Denmark · #15,342 worldwide 246 citations · 56 works
- 43 Jens Koch United States · #15,363 worldwide 564 citations · 89 works
- 44 Richard Bauman United States · #15,631 worldwide 307 citations · 50 works
- 45 Catharine A. MacKinnon United States · #15,708 worldwide 411 citations · 46 works
- 46 Daniel H. Lowenstein United States · #16,362 worldwide 420 citations · 70 works
- 47 Sally Engle Merry United States · #16,381 worldwide 336 citations · 57 works
- 48 Karl N. Llewellyn United States · #17,057 worldwide 189 citations · 61 works
- 49 Colin Murray United Kingdom · #17,247 worldwide 235 citations · 70 works
- 50 Wim Decock Belgium · #19,436 worldwide 164 citations · 66 works
- 51 Ole Lando Denmark · #21,081 worldwide 178 citations · 54 works
- 52 Bruno Zeller Australia · #21,258 worldwide 226 citations · 63 works
- 53 Gráinne de Búrca United States · #21,492 worldwide 191 citations · 68 works
- 54 Kurt H. Nadelmann United States · #22,067 worldwide 164 citations · 80 works
- 55 R. Edward Freeman United States · #22,164 worldwide 778 citations · 124 works
- 56 Petros C. Mavroidis United States · #22,213 worldwide 341 citations · 113 works
- 57 Jules L. Coleman United States · #22,383 worldwide 1.2k citations · 37 works
- 58 Andrew Arato United States · #22,851 worldwide 231 citations · 64 works
- 59 Katharina Pistor United States · #23,146 worldwide 339 citations · 45 works
- 60 Steven Penrod United States · #23,197 worldwide 503 citations · 49 works
- 61 Christine Parker Australia · #23,502 worldwide 286 citations · 77 works
- 62 Austin Sarat United States · #23,537 worldwide 187 citations · 87 works
- 63 Richard A. Epstein United States · #23,712 worldwide 769 citations · 240 works
- 64 Martin Schmidt-Kessel Germany · #24,444 worldwide 135 citations · 102 works
- 65 Martin Davies United States · #24,569 worldwide 367 citations · 103 works
- 66 Ulrich Magnus Germany · #25,288 worldwide 264 citations · 42 works
- 67 Otto Kirchheimer United States · #26,048 worldwide 182 citations · 47 works
- 68 Tomás-Ramón Fernández Spain · #26,219 worldwide 105 citations · 63 works
- 69 Ludo Rocher United States · #26,961 worldwide 162 citations · 100 works
- 70 Lee Epstein United States · #27,575 worldwide 232 citations · 44 works
- 71 Th. Müller United States · #27,580 worldwide 2.8k citations · 336 works
- 72 Max Radin United States · #27,836 worldwide 183 citations · 111 works
- 73 Ralf Michaels Germany · #27,954 worldwide 135 citations · 68 works
- 74 Erhard Blankenburg Netherlands · #28,080 worldwide 201 citations · 42 works
- 75 Tom Ginsburg United States · #29,084 worldwide 342 citations · 113 works
- 76 Neil Vidmar United States · #29,328 worldwide 230 citations · 50 works
- 77 Susan Haack United States · #29,859 worldwide 233 citations · 80 works
- 78 Ewan McKendrick United Kingdom · #29,903 worldwide 139 citations · 69 works
- 79 Mark A. Lemley United States · #30,106 worldwide 341 citations · 123 works
- 80 Martin Shapiro United States · #30,875 worldwide 219 citations · 50 works
- 81 Robert Alexy Germany · #31,441 worldwide 199 citations · 40 works
- 82 Jack M. Balkin United States · #31,678 worldwide 154 citations · 52 works
- 83 Andreas Pfitzmann Germany · #32,127 worldwide 546 citations · 60 works
- 84 Keebet von Benda-Beckmann Germany · #32,709 worldwide 142 citations · 62 works
- 85 David Carson United Kingdom · #32,949 worldwide 289 citations · 69 works
- 86 Malcolm Langford Norway · #33,267 worldwide 220 citations · 43 works
- 87 Jonathan Simon United States · #33,599 worldwide 402 citations · 78 works
- 88 Guido Calabresi United States · #34,092 worldwide 162 citations · 53 works
- 89 Ulrich G. Schroeter Switzerland · #34,189 worldwide 267 citations · 36 works
- 90 Samuel Issacharoff United States · #34,197 worldwide 187 citations · 49 works
- 91 Michael Kent Curtis United States · #34,543 worldwide 159 citations · 47 works
- 92 Russell Smyth Australia · #34,999 worldwide 1.2k citations · 183 works
- 93 Mark Pearson Australia · #35,267 worldwide 304 citations · 72 works
- 94 Hein Kötz Germany · #35,352 worldwide 242 citations · 36 works
- 95 Robert W. McGee United States · #35,485 worldwide 1.9k citations · 344 works
- 96 F. A. Mann Germany · #37,021 worldwide 142 citations · 53 works
- 97 Koen Lenaerts ?? · #38,522 worldwide 144 citations · 87 works
- 98 I. M. Ward United Kingdom · #38,640 worldwide 1.8k citations · 227 works
- 99 Richard Price United States · #39,514 worldwide 170 citations · 117 works
- 100 William N. Eskridge United States · #39,837 worldwide 178 citations · 40 works
authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Law, re-ranked on the composite score. Author identities come from OpenAlex disambiguation and inherit its errors: a merged record can put one name over two people’s work, and a split one can halve a career. Every row links out to the OpenAlex record so the underlying claim is checkable, and anything that looks wrong can be reported from the row. That report files a correction against the bibliographic record for a human to review — it is not a removal or delisting request, and no such route exists yet.