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Best constitutional legal minds

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2021 7:49 pm
by Anonymous User
What academics in constitutional law are the top. Obv. Tribe or Amar but who else?

Re: Best constitutional legal minds

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2021 7:57 pm
by Anonymous User
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Re: Best constitutional legal minds

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2021 8:24 pm
by Anonymous User
Anonymous User wrote:
Mon Aug 02, 2021 7:57 pm
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Michael Dorf, Chemerinsky, Tushnet, Pam Karlan

Re: Best constitutional legal minds

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2021 8:36 pm
by Anonymous User
The last Leiter rankings basically list the most influential, though it's obviously tilted towards older, often retiredish scholars like Tribe and Tushnet and that doesn't necessarily mean "best minds"

https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/lei ... -2017.html

Of the young generation (people in their ~30s) I'd be surprised if anyone is even close to Will Baude in cite count, though I might be forgetting someone. I'd guess maybe Jamal Greene and Steve Sachs are next?

Re: Best constitutional legal minds

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2021 10:57 pm
by Lacepiece23
Barack Obama

Re: Best constitutional legal minds

Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2021 1:03 am
by JusticeJackson
I’m biased but I think I’ve got to be up there.

Re: Best constitutional legal minds

Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2021 1:13 am
by Jchance
Anonymous User wrote:
Mon Aug 02, 2021 8:36 pm
Of the young generation (people in their ~30s) I'd be surprised if anyone is even close to Will Baude in cite count, though I might be forgetting someone. I'd guess maybe Jamal Greene and Steve Sachs are next?
+1 on Will Baude and Steve Sachs. Maybe Josh Blackman.

Re: Best constitutional legal minds

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2021 1:12 am
by consolidation058
Jchance wrote:
Tue Aug 03, 2021 1:13 am
Anonymous User wrote:
Mon Aug 02, 2021 8:36 pm
Of the young generation (people in their ~30s) I'd be surprised if anyone is even close to Will Baude in cite count, though I might be forgetting someone. I'd guess maybe Jamal Greene and Steve Sachs are next?
+1 on Will Baude and Steve Sachs. Maybe Josh Blackman.
Blackman isn't operating in the same universe as Sachs and Baude.

Re: Best constitutional legal minds

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2021 3:55 am
by ignorantfoot96
JusticeJackson wrote:
Tue Aug 03, 2021 1:03 am
I’m biased but I think I’ve got to be up there.
You're my personal hero haha

Re: Best constitutional legal minds

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2021 2:09 pm
by Jchance
consolidation058 wrote:
Wed Aug 04, 2021 1:12 am
Jchance wrote:
Tue Aug 03, 2021 1:13 am
Anonymous User wrote:
Mon Aug 02, 2021 8:36 pm
Of the young generation (people in their ~30s) I'd be surprised if anyone is even close to Will Baude in cite count, though I might be forgetting someone. I'd guess maybe Jamal Greene and Steve Sachs are next?
+1 on Will Baude and Steve Sachs. Maybe Josh Blackman.
Blackman isn't operating in the same universe as Sachs and Baude.
Fair. I'd put Richard Epstein, Orin Kerr, and Volokh on Will Baude level.

I'd also toss in James Stern of W&M.