Jill E. Fisch, the Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law, is the third most-cited corporate law and securities regulation professor in the United States, according to Brian Leiter’s 20 Most Cited Corporate Law & Securities Regulation Faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023.
Elizabeth Pollman, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Law & Economics, ranked 17th.
Fisch, with 840 citations, and Pollman, with 460 citations, are among three women on the list of the 20 most-cited academics in the field of corporate law and securities regulation.
The list includes faculty for whom roughly 75% or more of their citations are in the field. Academics with fewer than 75% of their citations in this area, but who nonetheless publish extensively on the topic, were named separately. David Arthur Skeel, S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law, was included in this list of “other highly cited scholars who work partly in this area,” with 420 citations.
The ranking, compiled by Leiter of the University of Chicago Law School, is based on citation data compiled by Gregory C. Sisk of the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minnesota. Leiter analyzes the data summarizing the overall scholarly impact of law faculties and organizes it by the subject-matter specializations of individual faculty members.
Penn Carey Law rose in the overall Sisk impact ranking from eighth place to seventh.
Elizabeth Pollman, Professor of Law
Fisch and Pollman are also both regularly recognized by Corporate Practice Commentator on its annual list of Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles.This year marked Fisch’s 16th appearance on the prestigious list, while Pollman’s scholarship has appeared on the list seven times in the last seven years.
Fisch is an internationally renowned scholar who has published more than 100 scholarly articles and book chapters. She holds a joint appointment in the Wharton Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department. Her work focuses on the intersection of business and law, including the role of regulation and litigation in addressing limitations in the disciplinary power of the capital markets.
She teaches courses on corporations, securities regulation, corporate governance, crisis management, strategic equity, and federal courts, among others, and has been on the faculty at the Law School since 2008. She has received several awards for outstanding teaching, including the 2022 University of Pennsylvania Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Pollman is an expert in business law who focuses on corporate law and governance. She is a widely published scholar whose articles on Corporate Securities Law have in recent years been singled out as among the leading publications in the field.
She teaches courses on corporations, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital. Pollman joined the Penn Carey Law faculty in 2020 and received the Harvey Levin Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence in 2022 and the LLM Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2021 and 2024.
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