For mathematicians, there is the Erdos number — a measure of how close they have come to collaborating with the famously prolific Hungarian-born scholar Paul Erdos (1913-1996). Someone who co-authored a paper directly with Erdos is said to have an Erdos number of 1; someone who has co-authored with one of those direct collaborators has an Erdos number of 2; and so on.
Now, two law professors at Vanderbilt University have proposed an equivalent concept for legal scholarship: the Sunstein number, after Cass R. Sunstein, the University of Chicago scholar who publishes at a furious rate, often in collaboration. (The authors have unearthed 57 scholars with a Sunstein number of 1, and 768 with a Sunstein number of 2.)
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