The Most-Cited Articles from The Yale Law Journal

What does it mean for an article to have ranked as one of The Yale Law Journal's most cited? Fred Shapiro has posed this question to the authors of those pieces-or their colleagues when the authors were unavailable-by asking them to reflect on their achievement. And so, the answer comes from legal academics themselves, in a series of revealing commentaries. Some of the authors, such as John Hart Ely, explicitly respond to being ranked, while others, such as Guido Calabresi, take the opportunity to link new claims to their earlier observations. Weaving the remarks of these accomplished authors together, The Most-Cited Articles presents a collage of the rich scholarship the Journal has had the opportunity to publish throughout the last century and a hint of the creativity and insight that await us in the next.