2026 Martha Albertson Fineman: Law Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Law	33	189	168	142	126	112	10826

Overview

Martha Albertson Fineman is affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their research spans several subfields within the social sciences, including sociology and political science, political science and international relations, gender studies, organizational behavior and human resource management, and reproductive medicine.

The main areas of study in Fineman's work focus on political philosophy and ethics, feminism, gender, and sexuality studies, sex work and related issues, Foucault, power, and ethics, multicultural socio-legal studies, corporate law and human rights, as well as reproductive health and technologies.

Recent scholarly papers authored by Fineman include the following:

"Populations, Pandemics, and Politics" (2021), published in the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law
"Beyond Equality and Discrimination" (2020), published in the SMU Law Review Forum
"UNIVERSALITY, VULNERABILITY, AND COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY" (2021), published in Les ateliers de l'éthique
"Rights, Resilience, and Responsibility" (2022), published in the SSRN Electronic Journal
"Universality, Vulnerability, and Collective Responsibility" (2021), also published in the SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent publication venues for Fineman include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
International Journal of Discrimination and the Law
SMU Law Review Forum
Les ateliers de l'éthique
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique

Fineman has collaborated with several co-authors on their research, including Graham Ferris, Anne M. Choike, and Cheryl L. Wade.

Their book publications are notably with Bristol University Press eBooks, where three editions of Vulnerability Theory and the Trinity Lectures are listed with a publication year of 2025.

Best Publications

The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition

Martha Albertson Fineman

1869
Citations
The Autonomy Myth: A Theory Of Dependency

Martha Albertson Fineman

1090
Citations
The Neutered Mother, The Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies

Martha Albertson Fineman

843
Citations
Dominant Discourse, Professional Language, and Legal Change in Child Custody Decisionmaking

Martha Fineman

772
Citations
The Vulnerable Subject and the Responsive State

Martha Albertson Fineman

686
Citations
The illusion of equality : the rhetoric and reality of divorce reform

Martha Fineman

674
Citations
Cracking the Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, and Self-Sufficiency

Martha Albertson Fineman

367
Citations
The Public Nature of Private Violence

Roxanne Mykitiuk;Martha Albertson Fineman

285
Citations
Masking Dependency: The Political Role of Family Rhetoric

Martha L. A. Fineman

274
Citations
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color

Martha Albertson Fineman

232
Citations
Equality, Autonomy, and the Vulnerable Subject in Law and Politics

Martha Albertson Fineman;Anna Grear

214
Citations
The Uses of Social Science Data in Legal Policymaking: Custody Determinations at Divorce

Martha Albertson Fineman;Anne Opie

210
Citations
The public nature of private violence : the discovery of domestic abuse

Martha Fineman;Roxanne Mykitiuk

208
Citations
The Neutered Mother

Martha Albertson Fineman

190
Citations
Contract and Care

Martha Albertson Fineman

169
Citations
Vulnerability: reflections on a new ethical foundation for law and politics

Martha Albertson Fineman;Anna Grear

164
Citations
At the Boundaries of Law (RLE Feminist Theory) : Feminism and Legal Theory

Martha Albertson Fineman;Nancy Sweet Thomadsen

159
Citations
Vulnerability and Inevitable Inequality

Martha Albertson Fineman

137
Citations
Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encounters, Uncomfortable Conversations

Martha Albertson Fineman;Jack E. Jackson;Adam P. Romero

99
Citations
At the boundaries of law : feminism and legal theory

Martha Fineman;Nancy Sweet Thomadsen

84
Citations
Mothers in law : feminist theory and the legal regulation of motherhood

Martha Fineman;Isabel Karpin

31
Citations
Transcending the boundaries of law : generations of feminism and legal theory

Martha Albertson Fineman;Martha Albertson Fineman

31
Citations
Vulnerability, Resilience, and LGBT Youth

Martha Albertson Fineman

28
Citations
Beyond Identities: The Limits of an Antidiscrimination Approach to Equality

Martha Albertson Fineman

15
Citations
A quiet revolution: vulnerability in the European Court of Human Rights

Alexandra Timmer;Martha Fineman;Anna Grear

15
Citations
Equality and Difference - The Restrained State

Martha Albertson Fineman

12
Citations
Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem.@@@The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century

Miriam M. Johnson;David Blankenhorn;Tragedies.;Martha Albertson Fineman

3
Citations
Feminist Legal Theory

Martha Albertson Fineman

0
Citations

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