2026 Kim Lane Scheppele: Law Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Law	29	286	259	203	182	145	5225
Political Science	29	1253	1135	632	551	147	5087

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1985 - Edward S. Corwin Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)

Overview

Kim Lane Scheppele is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and specializes in social sciences, with a particular focus on political science, international relations, sociology, law, finance, and economics. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Law, Finance, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their academic work concentrates on topics such as multicultural socio-legal studies, European and international law studies, European Union policy and governance, European criminal justice and data protection, judicial and constitutional studies, American constitutional law and politics, and issues related to torture, ethics, and law.

Frequent coauthors include Arianna Vedaschi, Gábor Mészáros, Dimitry Kochenov, Barbara Grabowska-Moroz, and David E. Pozen.

Kim Lane Scheppele has published extensively in various academic venues. Notable frequent publication platforms include DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), SSRN Electronic Journal, intR2Dok (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin), Journal of European Public Policy, and Yearbook of European Law.

Their recent publications include:

EU Values Are Law, after All: Enforcing EU Values through Systemic Infringement Actions by the European Commission and the Member States of the European Union, 2020, Yearbook of European Law
How Viktor Orbán Wins, 2022, Journal of Democracy
EU Values Are Law, After All: Enforcing EU Values Through Systemic Infringement Actions by the European Commission and the Member States of the European Union, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
Executive Underreach, in Pandemics and Otherwise, 2020, American Journal of International Law
Compromising the Rule of Law while Compromising on the Rule of Law, 2020, intR2Dok (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)

In terms of book publications, Kim Lane Scheppele has contributed to academic books published by Cambridge University Press, including the title "9/11 and the Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law" published in 2021.

Awards bestowed upon Kim Lane Scheppele include the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016 and the Edward S. Corwin Award from the American Political Science Association in 1985.

Best Publications

The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring about Social Change?

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Citations
Disabling the Constitution

Miklós Bánkuti;Gábor Halmai;Kim Lane Scheppele

321
Citations
The Migration of Constitutional Ideas

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317
Citations
Illiberalism within: rule of law backsliding in the EU

Laurent Pech;Kim Lane Scheppele

296
Citations
Crime and Punishment--Changing Attitudes in America.

Joseph F. Jones;Arthur L. Stinchcombe;Rebecca Adams;Carol A. Heimer

257
Citations
Salience of Crime and Support for Harsher Criminal Sanctions.

D. Garth Taylor;Kim Lane Scheppele;Arthur L. Stinchcombe

184
Citations
The Rule of Law and the Frankenstate: Why Governance Checklists Do Not Work

Kim Lane Scheppele

178
Citations
Enforcing the Basic Principles of EU Law through Systemic Infringement Actions

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149
Citations
Through Women's Eyes: Defining Danger in the Wake of Sexual Assault

Kim Lane Scheppele;Pauline B. Bart

132
Citations
How Viktor Orbán Wins

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106
Citations
Aspirational and aversive constitutionalism: The case for studying cross-constitutional influence through negative models

Kim Lane Scheppele

103
Citations
Law in a Time of Emergency: States of Exception and the Temptations of 9/11

Kim Lane Scheppele

102
Citations
EU Values Are Law, after All: Enforcing EU Values through Systemic Infringement Actions by the European Commission and the Member States of the European Union

Kim Lane Scheppele;Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov;Barbara Grabowska-Moroz

96
Citations
Constitutional Negotiations Political Contexts of Judicial Activism in Post-Soviet Europe

Kim Lane Scheppele

78
Citations
Legal Secrets: Equality and Efficiency in the Common Law

Kim Lane Scheppele

77
Citations
Guardians of the Constitution: Constitutional Court Presidents and the Struggle for the Rule of Law in Post-Soviet Europe

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72
Citations
The fragility of an independent judiciary: Lessons from Hungary and Poland–and the European Union

Kriszta Kovács;Kim Lane Scheppele

64
Citations
LEGAL THEORY AND SOCIAL THEORY

Kim Lane Scheppele

59
Citations
The Migration of Constitutional Ideas: The migration of anti-constitutional ideas: the post-9/11 globalization of public law and the international state of emergency

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55
Citations
The opportunism of populists and the defense of constitutional liberalism

Kim Lane Scheppele

51
Citations
Constitutional Coups in EU Law

Kim Lane Scheppele

30
Citations
Rules of Law: The Complexity of Legality in Hungary

Antal Örkény;Kim Lane Scheppele

29
Citations
Constitutional patriotism: An introduction

Jan-Werner Müller;Kim Lane Scheppele

25
Citations
A Constitution Between Past and Future

Kim Lane Scheppele

20
Citations
Facing Facts in Legal Interpretation

Kim Lane Scheppele

18
Citations
North American emergencies: The use of emergency powers in Canada and the United States

Kim Lane Scheppele

17
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Other People's PATRIOT Acts: Europe's Response to September 11

Kim Lane Scheppele

16
Citations
“It’s Just Not Right”: The Ethics of Insider Trading

Kim Lane Scheppele

15
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Manners of Imagining the real

Kim Lane Scheppele

15
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EU Values Are Law, After All: Enforcing EU Values Through Systemic Infringement Actions by the European Commission and the Member States of the European Union

Kim Lane Scheppele;Dimitry Kochenov;Barbara Grabowska-Moroz

3
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

R. Daniel Kelemen Georgetown University

Dimitry Kochenov Central European University

Tom R. Tyler Yale University

Michael J. Saks Arizona State University

Mark A. Pollack Temple University

Harold Hongju Koh Yale University

Cas Mudde University of Georgia

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