Most-cited legal scholars & law-review articles

Jewish recipients of the Most-cited legal scholars & law-review articles documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 56% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.

56%of all recipients are Jewish

28 documented recipients

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RP

Richard Posner1939

Federal appellate judge and founding figure of the law and economics movement

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

RD

Ronald Dworkin1931

Legal philosopher; developed 'law as integrity' and the principal critique of legal positivism

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

HW

Herbert Wechsler1909

Constitutional scholar; author of 'Toward Neutral Principles' and chief reporter of the Model Penal Code

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

AB

Alexander Bickel1924

Constitutional scholar; framed the 'countermajoritarian difficulty' in judicial review

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

GC

Guido Calabresi1932

Founder of law and economics and federal judge; author of 'The Costs of Accidents'

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

HK

Harry Kalven, Jr.1914

First Amendment and free-speech scholar; author of 'A Worthy Tradition'

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

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Richard Epstein1943

Libertarian legal scholar of property and torts; author of 'Takings'

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

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Lawrence Friedman1930

Leading legal historian and law-and-society scholar; author of 'A History of American Law'

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

CS

Cass Sunstein1954

Constitutional and administrative law scholar; founder of behavioral law and economics

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

BA

Bruce Ackerman1943

Constitutional theorist; author of the 'We the People' account of constitutional moments

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

LJ

Louis Jaffe1905

Foundational scholar of American administrative law and judicial review of agency action

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

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Gerald Gunther1927

Constitutional law scholar; shaped modern equal-protection doctrine and biographer of Learned Hand

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

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Frank Michelman1936

Constitutional and property law scholar; influential theorist of takings and fairness

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

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Felix Frankfurter1882

US Supreme Court Justice and constitutional scholar; leading advocate of judicial restraint

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

LH

Louis Henkin1917

Foremost scholar of international law and human rights; author of 'How Nations Behave'

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

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Henry Friendly1903

One of the most influential US federal appellate judges; scholar of administrative and federal courts law

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

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Charles Reich1928

Legal scholar; author of the landmark article 'The New Property' on government benefits

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

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Mark Tushnet1945

Constitutional scholar and leading figure of the Critical Legal Studies movement

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

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Owen Fiss1938

Constitutional and procedure scholar; influential critic of settlement ('Against Settlement')

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

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William Landes1939

Law and economics scholar; pioneer of empirical economic analysis of law with Richard Posner

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

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Marc Galanter1931

Law and society scholar; author of the influential 'Why the Haves Come Out Ahead'

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

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Joseph Goldstein1940

With Michael Brown discovered the LDL receptor (1973) and how cells regulate cholesterol, the scientific basis of statin drugs; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1985

Source: Wikipedia — Joseph L. Goldstein / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1985

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Steven Shavell1946

Law and economics scholar; leading theorist of accident law and legal incentives

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

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Philip Kurland1921

Constitutional scholar and leading authority on the Supreme Court and church-state law

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

AE

Albert Ehrenzweig1906

Leading scholar of conflict of laws (private international law) and torts

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

DF

Daniel Farber1950

Constitutional and environmental law scholar; prolific author on statutory interpretation

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

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Charles Fried1935

Legal philosopher and former US Solicitor General; author of 'Contract as Promise'

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence

PB

Paul Brest1940

Constitutional scholar of interpretation and antidiscrimination law; Stanford Law dean

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence