In the latest study to measure the impact of law school faculties based on their research and writing, 14 UCLA School of Law professors have been recognized as leaders of legal scholarship.

The scholarly impact rankings are tabulated and published by University of Chicago Law School professor Brian Leiter. He ranks entire law school faculties by their collective scholarly impact and compiles multiple lists of individual professors’ impacts within their areas of legal specialty.

Across all disciplines, the 10 most-cited UCLA Law professors were:

• Stephen Bainbridge
• Devon Carbado
• Kimberlé Crenshaw
• Scott Cummings
• Ingrid Eagly
• Cheryl Harris
• Rick Hasen
• Jerry Kang
• Joanna Schwartz
• Adam Winkler

These professors ranked highly for impact within their respective fields:

• Stephen Bainbridge, corporate law and securities regulation
• Rick Hasen, election law
• Russell Korobkin, law and economics
• Seana Shiffrin, law and philosophy
• Kal Raustiala, international law, national security, foreign affairs law
• Lindsay Wiley, health law

Leiter derives his rankings based on data, including citations of work by tenured faculty members at law schools nationwide, that Gregory Sisk at the University of St. Thomas School of Law compiles every three years. The latest data set covers 2019-2023.

Released in 2024, the triennial Sisk rankings place the entire UCLA Law faculty at No. 11 on the list of the law schools with the highest scholarly impact. This makes UCLA Law one of the only schools with a scholarly impact ranking that exceeds its position in the annual U.S. News & World Report ranking of the best law schools in the country.