Citations for environmental and energy law professors

The most-cited environmental and energy law professors in 2010-2014

Brian Leiter at Chicago is doing one of his occasional series identifying the top cited legal scholars in a range of substantive areas. One list he has done covers administrative and environmental scholars – however, his list includes a number of top administrative law scholars who do not focus on environmental and energy law. I thought it might be helpful to our readers to have a list that is focused on scholars who work substantially or primarily on environmental and energy law. Unlike Leiter, I’ve just lumped everyone together without breaking out a separate category for those work only partially in the field—that’s because almost all environmental and energy law scholars could be characterized as working in other areas of law, given the interdisciplinary nature of the work. So of course Cass Sunstein is number one. All the caveats that Leiter has indicated about the utility of looking at cite counts apply here. In particular, I also want to emphasize that citations are only a partial and imperfect measure of scholarship, which in turn is only a partial measure of what environmental and energy law professors do. My numbers differ slightly from Leiter’s at times because for most of these scholars, I did my own searches. I used the same basic methodology as Leiter, and these are citations from 2010-2014, inclusive. If any readers identify any errors or omissions, please let me know in the comments or by email.

Rank

First Name

Last Name

Cass

Sunstein

Harvard

5480

Dan

Farber

Berkeley

1750

Richard

Stewart

NYU

880

Jody

Freeman

Harvard

780

Richard

Pierce

GWU

780

Carol

Rose

Arizona

740

Richard

Revesz

NYU

730

Ruhl

Vanderbilt

700

Jonathan

Adler

Case Western

610

Richard

Lazarus

Harvard

610

Doug

Kysar

Yale

530

Robin Kundis

Craig

Utah

510

Tom

McGarity

Texas

500

Jim

Salzman

UCLA

490

Dan

Tarlock

Chicago-Kent

470

Rob

Glicksman

GWU

460

Vicki

Been

NYU

450

Jim

Rossi

Vanderbilt

450

Sidney

Shapiro

Wake Forest

450

Holly

Doremus

Berkeley

420

Cary

Coglianese

Penn

410

Robert

Percival

Maryland

410

Buzz

Thompson

Stanford

390

Bill

Buzbee

Georgetown

380

Michael

Gerrard

Columbia

380

David

Dana

Northwestern

370

Wendy

Wagner

Texas

370

Jonathan

Nash

Emory

350

Daniel

Bodansky

Arizona State

340

Michael

Vandenbergh

Vanderbilt

340

Brad

Karkkainen

Minnesota

340

2 Replies to “Citations for environmental and energy law professors”

Congratulations Dan Farber, why don’t you and all top cited legal scholars join together to inform and motivate peoples around the world to protect long-term future quality of life for the human race?

Today we are beyond 400 ppm and consequences are already out of control.

You folks do a great job documenting the out of control global warming problems that gravely threaten quality of life for future generations, but we must raise the level of public awareness and action today if we are going to begin to prevent the destruction of the human race that we are experiencing today.

One most disastrous consequence of global warming is violence, which latest news reports this week alone document as already out of control.

We must have world leadership, like Winston Churchill and FDR, to save us from ourselves again.

It doesn’t help that UC itself has major problems that prevent the right things from happening. As an example, Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center concluded ‘Indeed, Napolitano herself provides examples of the power paradox: When students protested the prospect of tuition hikes in March, she referred to the protests as “crap.” That, says Keltner, “is a classic abuse of power—to use rude language to describe low-power people.’ in their story “Women, Power, and Hillary Clinton” by Jeremy Adam Smith on February 24, 2016.

Berkeley Blog also reported a worst case scenario “Berkeley’s handling of sexual harassment is a disgrace” as posted by Michael Eisen on March 10, 2016.

We must do much, much better with the greatest sense of urgency today, starting at UC if we are going to make the right things happen in time to overcome the threats of global warming, as reported by CALIFORNIA alumni magazine in a 2006 Global Warning issue cover story “Can We Adapt in Time?” that seems to have been marginalized because it is now 2016 and we have not responded to this exhortation yet.

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Anthony St. John says:

June 30, 2016 at 3:30 am

Congratulations Dan Farber, why don’t you and all top cited legal scholars join together to inform and motivate peoples around the world to protect long-term future quality of life for the human race?

Today we are beyond 400 ppm and consequences are already out of control.
Anthony St. John says:

July 10, 2016 at 4:04 am

You folks do a great job documenting the out of control global warming problems that gravely threaten quality of life for future generations, but we must raise the level of public awareness and action today if we are going to begin to prevent the destruction of the human race that we are experiencing today.

One most disastrous consequence of global warming is violence, which latest news reports this week alone document as already out of control.

We must have world leadership, like Winston Churchill and FDR, to save us from ourselves again.

It doesn’t help that UC itself has major problems that prevent the right things from happening. As an example, Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center concluded ‘Indeed, Napolitano herself provides examples of the power paradox: When students protested the prospect of tuition hikes in March, she referred to the protests as “crap.” That, says Keltner, “is a classic abuse of power—to use rude language to describe low-power people.’ in their story “Women, Power, and Hillary Clinton” by Jeremy Adam Smith on February 24, 2016.

Berkeley Blog also reported a worst case scenario “Berkeley’s handling of sexual harassment is a disgrace” as posted by Michael Eisen on March 10, 2016.

We must do much, much better with the greatest sense of urgency today, starting at UC if we are going to make the right things happen in time to overcome the threats of global warming, as reported by CALIFORNIA alumni magazine in a 2006 Global Warning issue cover story “Can We Adapt in Time?” that seems to have been marginalized because it is now 2016 and we have not responded to this exhortation yet.