USD School of Law Warren Distinguished Professor of Law Orly Lobel is a Top-Cited Young Scholar

Orly Lobel is a Top-Cited Young Scholar

SAN DIEGO (January 12, 2021) – University of San Diego (USD) School of Law Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, Orly Lobel, was recently listed as a top-cited young scholar in the University of Chicago Law Review.

The list of Most-Cited Young Legal Scholars enumerates the most cited scholars born in 1970 or later. The list is based on the number of times one has been cited in academic articles over the course of their career. Lobel ranks twelfth on the list with 1,478 total citations. She is the fourth top-cited young woman scholar and the only woman to make the list not from a top-five law school.

You can find the full list of top-cited young scholars here.

About Warren Distinguished Professor of Law Orly Lobel

Warren Distinguished Professor of Law Orly Lobel’s areas of expertise include Intellectual Property, Employment and Labor Law, Government Agencies, Employment Discrimination, and Regulation. She has received numerous awards in recent years, including the Thorsnes Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship and the Irving Oberman Memorial Award. Her two latest books have won several prestigious awards. Lobel is also a top-cited young legal scholar.

About the USD School of Law

Each year, USD educates approximately 800 Juris Doctor and graduate law students from throughout the United States and around the world.  The law school is best known for its offerings in the areas of business and corporate law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international and comparative law, public interest law and taxation.

USD School of Law is one of the 84 law schools elected to the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates.  The law school’s faculty is a strong group of outstanding scholars and teachers with national and international reputations and currently ranks 30th nationally among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 28^th nationally in past-year faculty downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1954, the law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.