UCLA School of Law professors Stephen Bainbridge and Kal Raustiala have been included in a prestigious new ranking of the top legal scholars in the country.

University of Chicago Law School professor Brian Leiter, who is known for tabulating periodic lists of the scholarly output of law school faculty members, has compiled a ranking of the top law professors for their productivity in scholarship within discipline-specific journals. This so-called D-index – a variation on the H-index, the metric that measures an academic’s output and citations – spotlights law professors who are among the top scholars in their respective fields.

On the list of 96 leading non-emeritus law school faculty members from across the country, Bainbridge is No. 86 and Raustiala is No. 87. Also in the new Leiter ranking, Bainbridge ranks 12th among corporate law specialists, and Raustiala is 18th in the international law field.

Bainbridge is the William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA Law, where he has served on the faculty since 1997, taught courses that run the gamut of business law, published more than 100 law review articles and nearly two dozen books, and won the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching. He consistently ranks among the most-cited legal scholars in the country and writes the popular Substack blog Bainbridge on Corporations. His most recent new book is The Profit Motive: Defending Shareholder Value Maximization (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

Raustiala is the Promise Institute Distinguished Professor of Comparative and International Law at UCLA Law, where he has been on the faculty since 2000. His legal research focuses on international law, international relations, and intellectual property. He is also a professor at the UCLA International Institute. Since 2007, he has served as director of the UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations. His book The Absolutely Indispensable Man: Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the Fight to End Empire (Oxford University Press, 2022) earned broad acclaim.

Read an interview with Bainbridge about his book The Profit Motive.

Read an interview with Raustiala about his book The Absolutely Indispensable Man.