Top institutions for Law

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Which institutions have the most top-cited scientists in Law?

395 researchers whose main subfield is Law are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list. Harvard Law School has the most (14, 3.5%), followed by Columbia Law School (10) and Yale University (9). A row opens its scientists in the subfield in the table of all authors.

#InstitutionCountryListed authorsTop 100kHighest-ranked author
1Harvard Law School United States146Sunstein, Cass R. #233
2Columbia Law School United States106Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams #4,216
3Yale University United States93Kahan, Dan M. #6,097
4University of California, Los Angeles United States93Carbado, Devon W. #53,961
5University of Oxford United Kingdom82Gardner, John #88,937
6The University of Chicago Law School United States72Posner, Eric A. #26,063
7University of Toronto Canada73Borrows, John #59,105
8Georgetown Law United States62Cohen, Julie E. #62,466
9Melbourne Law School Australia60Orford, Anne Margaret #109,260
10University of Virginia School of Law United States53Citron, Danielle Keats #32,891
11UNSW Sydney Australia52Dixon, Rosalind #41,464
12Universiteit van Amsterdam Netherlands50Wewerinke-Singh, Margaretha #140,779
13University of Cambridge United Kingdom41van Asselt, Harro V. #35,551
14Duke University United States43Siegel, Reva B. #41,927
15University of Michigan Law School United States41Price, W. Nicholson #45,340
16Københavns Universitet Denmark42Madsen, Mikael Rask #77,988
17London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom41Lacey, Nicola #84,729
18University of Liverpool United Kingdom40Mitsilegas, Valsamis #104,271
19University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School United States40Pollman, Elizabeth #135,919
20NYU Law United States40Issacharoff, Samuel #138,971
21New York University United States32Waldron, Jeremy J. #16,014
22Oxford Social Sciences Division United Kingdom32Rajamani, Lavanya #39,262
23Universiteit Leiden Netherlands32Malgieri, Gianclaudio #41,407
24University of Reading United Kingdom32Milanović, Marko #80,238
25Harvard University United States31Zittrain, Jonathan L. #87,204
26Cornell Law School United States32Rachlinski, Jeffrey J. #92,858
27Berkeley Law United States31Gelbach, Jonah B. #93,618
28Stanford Law School United States31Achiume, Emily Tendayi #97,778
29University College Dublin Ireland30Pech, Laurent #112,627
30Vanderbilt Law School United States30Ruhl, J. B. #117,467
31Queen's University Belfast United Kingdom30McCrudden, Christopher #126,818
32European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole Italy30Petit, Nicolas #127,643
33Universitetet i Oslo Norway30Langford, Malcolm #130,754
34LUISS University Italy30Viñuales, Jorge E. #135,975
35University College London United Kingdom30Chiu, Iris Hse Yu #178,531
36The University of Sydney Australia30Butt, Simon #179,272