2026 Mark Tushnet: Law Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Law	43	88	78	70	61	745	8100

Research.com Recognitions

2002 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1996 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Mark Tushnet is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with specific expertise in law and political science. Their work spans the fields of law, political science and international relations, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, and public administration.

Tushnet's research interests include topics such as judicial and constitutional studies, American constitutional law and politics, law, rights, and freedoms, legal systems and judicial processes, legal and constitutional studies, law in society and culture, and legal principles and applications.

Frequent co-authors of Tushnet include Joseph Blocher, Alan K. Chen, Jens Meierhenrich, Madhav Khosla, and Po Jen Yap.

Tushnet has published regularly in several venues, with the most frequent publication outlets including:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Cambridge University Press eBooks
International Journal of Constitutional Law
Asian Journal of Comparative Law
European Constitutional Law Review

Recent papers authored by Mark Tushnet include:

Populism and Constitutionalism: An Essay on Definitions and Their Implications (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
Conceptualizing the Role of Courts in Peace Processes (2020, International Journal of Constitutional Law)
Introduction: The Pasts & Futures of the Administrative State (2021, Daedalus)

Tushnet's book publications are primarily with Cambridge University Press, having authored four books:

The New Fourth Branch (2021)
The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law (2021)
Proportionality in Asia (2020)
The Hughes Court (2022)

Additional books were published with other presses, including:

Taking Back the Constitution (2020, Yale University Press, two editions)
Free Speech Beyond Words (2020, New York University Press eBooks)

Mark Tushnet has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2002 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation since 1996.

Best Publications

Taking the Constitution Away from the Courts

Mark V. Tushnet

628
Citations
And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice

Mark V. Tushnet;Derrick Bell

587
Citations
Weak Courts, Strong Rights: Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law

Mark V. Tushnet

265
Citations
The Possibilities of Comparative Constitutional Law

Mark V. Tushnet

233
Citations
The NAACP's Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925-1950

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207
Citations
The NAACP's Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925-1950

Mark V. Tushnet

188
Citations
Comparative Constitutional Law

Mark Tushnet

186
Citations
The NAACP's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education

Robert L. Carter;Mark Tushnet

162
Citations
Constitutional Hardball

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139
Citations
Following the Rules Laid down: A Critique of Interpretivism and Neutral Principles

Mark V. Tushnet

122
Citations
The Tenth Justice: The Solicitor General and the Rule of Law

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103
Citations
Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961

Mark V. Tushnet

100
Citations
Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade

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100
Citations
Critical Legal Studies: A Political History

Mark Tushnet

93
Citations
Constitutional Democracy in Crisis

Mark A Graber;Sanford Levinson;Mark Tushnet

92
Citations
Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes: Authoritarian Constitutionalism

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87
Citations
A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law

Mark V. Tushnet

78
Citations
The issue of state action/horizontal effect in comparative constitutional law

Mark Tushnet

74
Citations
New Forms of Judicial Review and the Persistence of Rights - And Democracy-Based Worries

Mark V. Tushnet

69
Citations
The Oxford handbook of legal studies

Peter Cane;Mark V. Tushnet

67
Citations
Red, White, and Blue: A Critical Analysis of Constitutional Law

Mark V. Tushnet

65
Citations
Alternative Forms of Judicial Review

Mark V. Tushnet

64
Citations
In the Matter of Color

Mark V. Tushnet;A. Leon Higginbotham join(

64
Citations
The New Constitutional Order

Mark V. Tushnet

61
Citations
The American Law of Slavery, 1810-1860: Considerations of Humanity and Interest

Mark V. Tushnet

60
Citations
Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes: Contents

Tom Ginsburg;Alberto Simpser

40
Citations
Social Welfare Rights and the Forms of Judicial Review

Mark Tushnet

34
Citations
Legal Scholarship: Its Causes and Cure

Mark Tushnet

17
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Cass R. Sunstein Harvard University

Richard Delgado Seattle University

Frederick Schauer University of Virginia

Kent Roach University of Toronto

External Links

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