- Mark Tushnet
Mark Tushnet (born 1945 -) is a prominent critical legal studies proponent, constitutional law scholar, and author of many books. He received his B.A. from Harvard University and his J.D. from Yale University. While serving as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, Tushnet authored a memo which dramatically influenced the opinion in Roe v. Wade. - Todd Zywicki
Todd Zywicki , Associate Professor of Law at George Mason University Law School advises the Institute on the legal content and teaching of its educational materials. - John Warner
John Warner (b. January 22, 1943) is an American attorney and judge who is currently one of the five Associate Justices on the Montana Supreme Court. Warner won an unopposed retention vote in 2006; his current term will expire in 2014. Warner was born and raised in Great Falls, Montana. He attended Montana State University in Missoula, from which he earned a B.A. in history and political science in 1965. In 1967, he graduated from the University of Montana School of Law. - Harold Hongju Koh
Harold Hongju Koh (born December 8, 1954, Boston, MA, United States) is a Korean-American lawyer, legal scholar, former U.S. State Department official, and current Dean of the Yale Law School (since July 1, 2004). His name has been mentioned as a possible U.S. Supreme Court Justice nominee in the event of a Democratic Presidential victory in 2008. Koh became Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor on November 13, 1998. - Marci Hamilton
Marci Hamilton is the Paul R. Verkuil Chair of Public Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and a widely-regarded scholar in constitutional law. Hamilton received her Bachelor of Arts from Vanderbilt University in 1979. She then earned a Masters degree at Pennsylvania State University and a juris doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the Law Review. - Ted Cruz
R. Ted Cruz (born 1970) is the Solicitor General of the State of Texas in the United States. He was appointed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott in January 2003, and is the chief appellate lawyer for the state. Prior to his appointment he was Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice, … - James L. Oakes
James L. Oakes (February 21 1924) is retired from his position as a senior circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Oakes attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School, from which he graduated cum laude and served as editor of the law review. After graduating, he served two terms as law clerk for Second Circuit Judge Harrie B. Chase. Oakes then went into private practice as a lawyer in Brattleboro, Vermont. - David L. Bazelon
David Lionel Bazelon (September 3, 1909-February 19, 1993) was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Born in Wisconsin, David Bazelon grew up in Chicago and earned a B.S.L from Northwestern University in 1931. He worked in private practice for a few years and then worked as the assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois from 1935 to 1946. - Rex E. Lee
Rex E. Lee from St. Johns, Arizona was a respected Constitutional lawyer, a Latter-day Saint (LDS; see also Mormon), an alumnus and tenth president of Brigham Young University from July 1, 1989 through December 31, 1995, a law clerk for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White, and the United States Solicitor General under the Reagan Administration. He argued 59 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. - Rose Bird
Rose Elizabeth Bird (November 2, 1936-December 4, 1999) served for 10 years as the 25th Chief Justice (and first female Chief Justice) of the California Supreme Court until removed from that office by the voters. - Stanley Sporkin
Stanley Sporkin (born 1932) is a former judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He was nominated to the seat vacated by Judge June L. Green on April 5, 1985 by President Ronald Reagan, and was confirmed by the Senate on December 16; he received his commission the next day. He assumed senior status on February 12, 1999, and retired on January 15, 2000. - M. Blane Michael
M. Blane Michael (born February 171943) in Charleston, South Carolina) is a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He was nominated by President William Jefferson Clinton on August 6, 1993, to a seat vacated by James Marshall Sprouse. Michael's confirmation by the United States Senate on September 30, 1993, made him the first federal judge to be appointed by a Democratic president since Ronald Reagan became President in 1981. - Arthur J. Gajarsa
Judge Arthur J. Gajarsa (b. 1941) is a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1997-present). Arthur Gajarsa was born on 1 March 1941 in Norcia, Italy. He matriculated at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity, graduating in 1962 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He then received a M.A. in Economics from The Catholic University of America in 1964, … - Thomas E. Baker
Thomas Eugene Baker is a professor of Constitutional law in the Florida International University College of Law. After receiving his Juris Doctor at the University of Florida College of Law, Baker was a law clerk in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and later was the administrative assistant to Chief Justice William Rehnquist. - Kent Roach
Kent Roach is a professor of law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He is well known for his expertise and writings on criminal law, the "Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms", and more recently anti-terrorism law. He is a graduate of the university and served as a former law clerk to Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada. - Timothy Flanigan
Timothy Elliott Flanigan (b. May 16, 1953 in Fort Belvoir, Virginia) is an American lawyer and politician. On May 24, 2005, President George W. Bush nominated him as Deputy Attorney General of the United States, the #2 position in the Department of Justice. On October 7, 2005, his name was withdrawn from consideration. He was replaced by Paul McNulty. - James Harvie Wilkinson III
James Harvie Wilkinson III (born in New York, New York, September 29, 1944) is a federal judge serving on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. His name has been raised at several junctures as a possible nominee to the United States Supreme Court. - Kermit Roosevelt III
Kermit Roosevelt , Professor of Law, works in a diverse range of fields, focusing on constitutional law and conflict of laws. [More] Kermit Roosevelt , Professor of Law, works in a diverse range of fields, focusing on constitutional law and conflict of laws. His new book, The Myth of Judicial Activism: Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions (Yale Univ. Press, 2006) sets out standards by which citizens can determine whether the Supreme Court is abusing its authority. - Keith P. Ellison
Keith P. Ellison (born 1950 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. His chambers are in Houston, Texas. Educated first at Harvard College, he was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford where he studied at Magdalen College before earning his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. After graduating from Yale, he clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. - Louis-Philippe Pigeon
Louis-Philippe Pigeon, CC, LL.L (February 8, 1905 - February 23, 1986) was a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada. Born Henryville, Quebec in 1905, the son of Arthur Pigeon and Maria Demers, he studied at Université Laval and obtained an LL.L in 1928. Called to the bar that year, he settled in Quebec City and practised law with St-Laurent, Gagné, Devlin et Taschereau. In 1940 he became law clerk of the Quebec Legislature, … - Lucile Lomen
Helen Lucile Lomen (born August 21, 1920 - died June 21, 1996) was the first woman to serve as a law clerk for a Supreme Court justice. Lomen was born in Nome, Alaska in 1920. Her family later moved to Seattle, where she graduated from high school in 1937. She then attended Whitman College, from which she graduated with honors in 1941. Lomen went to law school at the University of Washington. - Evan Caminker
Evan H. Caminker (born June 26, 1961, Los Angeles, California) is Dean of the University of Michigan Law School, United States. He succeeded Jeffrey S. Lehman, who resigned to become president of Cornell University. Caminker was appointed dean just as the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling upholding the constitutionality of the Law School's affirmative action admissions policies, … - William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.
William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. (born July 7, 1920 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) was the fourth United States Secretary of Transportation, from March 7, 1975 to January 20, 1977, and the second African American to serve in the Cabinet. Coleman was also a distinguished lawyer who, with Thurgood Marshall, has played a major role in significant civil rights cases. - Richard Tallman
Judge Richard Tallman is a judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Tallman received his Bachelors degree from the University of Santa Clara and his Juris Doctor from Northwestern University School of Law, where he served as the executive director of the law review. After serving as a law clerk for Judge Morell E. Sharp of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, … - Edward J. Bloustein
Edward J. Bloustein (January 20, 1925 - 9 December, 1989) was the seventeenth President of Rutgers University serving from 1971 to 1989. He was born in New York City, and he graduated from James Monroe High School in the Bronx in 1942. He served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946. - Andrew McClurg
Andrew J. McClurg is a professor of law at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, specializing in torts, products liability, and privacy law. Although he has published a number of articles in his areas of practice, he is best known as a legal humorist, having written two legal humor books, and having written a legal humor column for more than four years in the American Bar Association Journal. - Robert Price
Robert Price is an American attorney, investment banker and corporate executive. He was appointed to New York State's Commission of Investigation in 2001. He founded Price Communications in 1981, a media company owning television and radio stations, a cellular telephone system, and the New York Law Journal. Born in the Bronx, Price is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and Columbia Law School. He served as Law Clerk to United States District Court Archie Dawson, … - Aviam Soifer
Aviam Soifer (born 1948) is currently the Dean of the William S. Richardson School of Law, the only law school in Hawaii. Soifer earned his BA at Yale University in 1969, and a Master of Urban Studies at the same institution in 1972. He also earned his Juris Doctor at Yale Law School, in 1972, where he was an editor on the Yale Law Journal. Upon graduation, Soifer became a law clerk for a Federal Judge, Jon O. Newman. - Kevin Duffy
Kevin Thomas Duffy (born 1933) is an American lawyer and currently a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Duffy graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fordham College in 1954 and with an LL.B from the Fordham University School of Law in 1958. He clerked for J. Edward Lumbard a Second Circuit Court of Appeals (1955-1958). - Ricardo Hinojosa
Ricardo H. Hinojosa (born 1950 in Rio Grande City, Texas) is a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas and serves as the Chairman of the United States Sentencing Commission. He was nominated to his current position by President Ronald Reagan on April 12 1983, to fill the seat vacated by Woodrow B. Seals. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 4, 1983, and received his commission the following day. - David Riesman
David Riesman (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1909; died in Binghamton, New York, May 10, 2002), was a United States sociologist, attorney, and educator. After graduating from Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the "Harvard Law Review", Riesman clerked for Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis from 1935-1936. Riesman's 1950 book, "The Lonely Crowd", deals with modern sociology. - Karla M. Gray
Karla M. Gray (b. May 10, 1947) is an American attorney and judge who currently serves as the Chief Justice of the Montana Supreme Court; she was the first woman elected to that position. Gray was born in Escanaba, Michigan. She attended Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo from 1965-1970, earning a B.A. and an M.A. in African history. She then moved to California, working as a clerk matron at the Mountain View Police Department. - Boris Bittker
Boris I. Bittker (November 28, 1916 - September 8, 2005) was a prominent United States legal academician. A professor at Yale Law School, Bittker was a prolific author, writing many textbooks and over one hundred articles on tax law. Born in Rochester, New York, Bittker attended Cornell University ('38) and Yale Law School ('41). After law school, Bittker clerked for Judge Jerome Frank of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. - John Bassett Moore
John Bassett Moore (December 3, 1860 - November 12, 1947) was an American authority on international law who was a member of the Hague Tribunal and the first US judge to serve on the Permanent Court of International Justice (the "World Court"). He was born in Smyrna, Delaware, graduated at the University of Virginia in 1880, and was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1883. From 1885 to 1886 he was a law clerk at the Department of State, then an Assistant Secretary of State. - Ellen Segal Huvelle
Ellen Segal Huvelle is a federal judge sitting in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia who has overseen several significant cases. In a case decided in May of 2001, Huvelle "upheld federal regulations that restrict the sale of consumers' names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses and phone numbers." Later that year, Huvelle heard requests by family members of Vince Foster seeking access to pictures of his body taken after his death. - George Davidson
George Allan Davidson (born April 6, 1942) is an attorney and head of the Litigation Department of the New York law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed. Davidson is the former President of the Legal Aid Society, a position he held from 1987-1989. Davidson was also a Director of the Legal Aid Society from 1978-1992 and a member of its President's Council from 1990-2006. A respected litigator, Davidson has been involved in many landmark cases, … - Eugene R. Sullivan
Eugene R. Sullivan is a retired Federal Judge with over 16 years of appellate experience. Nominated by President Reagan and confirmed by the Senate, Judge Sullivan was installed as a Federal Judge in 1986. In 1990, President Bush named him the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals (AF). Judge Sullivan is now a senior partner in Freeh Group International (FGI) ( - Elizabeth F. Emens
Elizabeth F. Emens (born September 19, 1972, Columbus, Ohio) is a legal scholar and currently an Associate Professor of Law at Columbia University. She specializes in antidiscrimination law, law and sexuality, family law, disability law, and contract law. Emens graduated "summa cum laude" from Yale University in 1994 with a B.A. in English and psychology. She did her postgraduate studies as a Marshall Scholar at Kings College of the University of Cambridge, … - Raymond Charles Clevenger III
Raymond Clevenger, an American jurist on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, was born on 27 August 1937, in Topeka, Kansas, to R. Charles Clevenger and Mary Margaret Ramsey Clevenger. He was educated in the public schools in Topeka, Kansas, and at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Judge Clevenger took a B.A. in 1959, from Yale University, graduating magna cum laude. - Percy Yutar
Dr. Percy Yutar was South Africa’s first Jewish attorney-general. Yutar was the child Lithuanian immigrants. His father originally had the surname of "Yuter" before arriving in South Africa. Yutar began his career as a lawyer in Johannesburg and later became a junior law clerk in Pretoria’s Palace of Justice. In 1940, he was appointed a junior state prosecutor and eventually become the Deputy Attorney General for the Transvaal.
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