Brian Leiter

4.8k total citations
147 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Brian Leiter is a scholar working on Law, Philosophy and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Leiter has authored 147 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Law, 51 papers in Philosophy and 37 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Brian Leiter's work include Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (28 papers), Judicial and Constitutional Studies (21 papers) and Legal and Constitutional Studies (19 papers). Brian Leiter is often cited by papers focused on Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (28 papers), Judicial and Constitutional Studies (21 papers) and Legal and Constitutional Studies (19 papers). Brian Leiter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Philippines. Brian Leiter's co-authors include Ronald J. Allen, Neil Sinhababu, Jules L. Coleman, Michael Rosen, Anthony J. Sebok, Michael Weisberg, Jeremy Waldron, Andrei Marmor, Mitchell E. Berman and Liam Murphy and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Ethics and The Journal of Legal Studies.

In The Last Decade

Brian Leiter

120 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian Leiter United States	23	583	526	412	289	272	147	1.5k
Arthur Ripstein Canada	10	169 0.3×	492 0.9×	495 1.2×	96 0.3×	206 0.8×	63	981
William H. Wilcox	7	329 0.6×	244 0.5×	390 0.9×	116 0.4×	277 1.0×	13	998
George P. Fletcher United States	18	425 0.7×	232 0.4×	405 1.0×	155 0.5×	459 1.7×	105	1.2k
A. D. Woozley United States	15	149 0.3×	261 0.5×	168 0.4×	46 0.2×	151 0.6×	40	735
Jean Hampton United States	15	76 0.1×	370 0.7×	371 0.9×	96 0.3×	392 1.4×	33	932
David Copp United States	22	51 0.1×	823 1.6×	405 1.0×	39 0.1×	292 1.1×	64	1.4k
George Sher United States	14	60 0.1×	426 0.8×	382 0.9×	84 0.3×	236 0.9×	72	983
J. J. C. Smart Australia	4	51 0.1×	489 0.9×	329 0.8×	174 0.6×	230 0.8×	9	1.2k
Knud Haakonssen Germany	13	51 0.1×	436 0.8×	497 1.2×	223 0.8×	303 1.1×	45	991
Henry Sidgwick United Kingdom	8	27 0.0×	398 0.8×	235 0.6×	199 0.7×	210 0.8×	17	995

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Leiter, Brian. (2026). Explaining Theoretical Disagreement. The University of Chicago Law Review. 76(3). 37–68.

2.

Leiter, Brian. (2026). The Boundaries of the Moral (and Legal) Community. 64. 299–320.

3.

Leiter, Brian. (2026). In Praise of Realism (and Against “Nonsense” Jurisprudence). The Georgetown law journal. 100. 225–254.

4.

Leiter, Brian. (2026). The Paradoxes of Public Philosophy. eYLS (Yale Law School). 1. 357–372.

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Leiter, Brian, et al.. (2024). Marx.

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Leiter, Brian. (2017). Legal Positivism About the Artifact Law: A Retrospective Assessment. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Leiter, Brian. (2014). Marx, Law, Ideology, Legal Positivism. Virginia Law Review. 101. 1179. 2 indexed citations

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Leiter, Brian. (2012). Waldron on the Regulation of Hate Speech. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

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Leiter, Brian. (2009). The Radicalism of Legal Positivism. SSRN Electronic Journal. 66. 165. 1 indexed citations

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Leiter, Brian. (2008). Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Three Approaches. SSRN Electronic Journal. 197–68. 8 indexed citations

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Leiter, Brian. (2006). Book Review (reviewing Ronald Dworkin, ed., Justice in Robes (2006) & Scott Hershovitz, ed., Exploring Law's Empire: The Jurisprudence of Ronald Dworkin (2006)). Journal of legal education. 56. 675.

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Leiter, Brian. (2006). Why Blogs Are Bad for Legal Scholarship. The Yale Law Journal. 116. 53. 1 indexed citations

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Leiter, Brian, et al.. (2005). H. L. A. Hart. TLS, the Times literary supplement/Times literary supplement on CD-ROM/TLS. Times literary supplement. 15.

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Leiter, Brian. (2005). How to Rank Law Schools. Indiana law journal. 81(1). 47. 2 indexed citations

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Leiter, Brian. (2004). Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy.. eYLS (Yale Law School). 4 indexed citations

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Leiter, Brian. (2004). The future for philosophy. Oxford University Press eBooks. 66 indexed citations

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Leiter, Brian. (1998). One health, one earth, one sun. TLS, the Times literary supplement/Times literary supplement on CD-ROM/TLS. Times literary supplement. 30–31. 1 indexed citations

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Leiter, Brian. (1993). Objectivity and the Problems of Jurisprudence (reviewing Kent Greenawalt, Law and Objectivity (1992)). Texas law review. 72. 187. 1 indexed citations

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Leiter, Brian. (1992). Nietzsche and Aestheticism. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University).

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Leiter, Brian, et al.. (1990). A Reconsideration of the Relevance and Materiality of the Preamble in Constitutional Interpretation. Cardozo law review. 12. 117. 4 indexed citations

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