In a November 2021 ranking presented by Chicago Law Review, GW Law’s Professor Daniel J. Solove, John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law, tops the list of “Most-Cited Younger Legal Scholars” (scholars born in 1970 or later), with 4,656 citations. Professor Michael B. Abramowicz achieves the 13th place ranking with 1,455 citations, and Orin Kerr, former GW Law professor, holds the number two spot.
In an essay for Chicago Law Review, Woodrow Hartzog, Professor of Law and Computer Science, Northeastern University, and GW Law alum, explores Professor Solove’s scholarly work, stating that “throughout history, privacy has evaded a precise meaning. Initially, lawmakers had no compelling need to give the concept a singular legal definition…. Daniel Solove’s work on understanding privacy has imposed order upon chaos, shifting our focus away from questions about what privacy is and toward the different problems we want our privacy based rules to address and the specific values we want them to serve.”
A leading expert in privacy law, Professor Solove is the author of numerous books, including Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security (Yale 2011), Understanding Privacy (Harvard 2008), and The Future of Reputation: Gossip and Rumor in the Information Age (Yale 2007). His newest book will be published in March of this year, Breached!: Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It (Oxford 2022) (with Woodrow Harzog).
He has authored several textbooks, including Information Privacy Law (Aspen Publishing, 6th ed. 2018), with Paul M. Schwartz. In addition, he has written more than 50 law review articles for journals that include Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, and Columbia Law Review.
Professor Abramowicz is the Jeffrey and Martha Kohn Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Oppenheim Professor of Law. He specializes in law and economics, spanning areas including intellectual property, civil procedure, corporate law, administrative law, and insurance law.
His research has been published in journals that include California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Harvard Law Review, and New York University Law Review. He is the author of Predictocracy: Market Mechanisms for Public and Private Decision Making (Yale University Press).
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