- Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic. He is currently professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trade ...
- John Yoo
John Yoo is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where he has taught since 1993. From 2001-03, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security, and the separation of powers. Professor Yoo received his B.A. summa cum laude in American history from Harvard.
- Eben Moglen
Eben Moglen is a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center, whose client list includes numerous pro bono clients, such as the Free Software Foundation.
- Hugh Hewitt
Professor Hewitt is the host of a nationally syndicated radio show heard in more than 70 markets nationwide. He received 3 Emmys during his decade of work as co-host of the week-night television news and public affairs show Life & Times on PBS Los Angeles affiliate KCET-TV. Professor Hewitt was also the host of the PBS Series Searching For God In America, an eight-part show which premiered on PBS in July 1996.
- Philippe Sands
Philippe Sands is a Professor of Law at University College London, where he teaches public international law, the settlement of international disputes, and environmental and natural resources law.
- Yochai Benkler
Yochai Benkler is Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law at the Yale Law School and the author of "The Wealth of Networks" and the influential paper Coase's Penguin.
- Lani Guinier
Lani Guinier (born 1950) is arguably one of the foremost American civil rights scholars in the United States. The first black woman tenured professor at Harvard Law School, Guinier's work spans a range of topics, including professional responsibilities of public lawyers, the relationship between democracy and the law, the role of race and gender in the political process, equity in college admissions, and affirmative action.
- Kenji Yoshino
Kenji Yoshino is a legal scholar, professor and deputy dean of intellectual life at Yale Law School. His work involves Constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, civil and human rights, as well as law and literature, and Japanese law and society. He is very active in several social and legal issues and is also an author.
- 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.
- Gerhard Casper
Gerhard Casper (1937 -) was the 9th president of Stanford University from 1992-2000. He is currently the " Peter and Helen Bing Professor in Undergraduate Education" at Stanford.
- Viet D. Dinh
Viet D. Dinh is founder and principal of Bancroft Associates. He is Professor of Law and Co-Director of Asian Law & Policy Studies at the Georgetown University Law Center. He also serves as a Director and Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee of the News Corporation. Dinh previously served as U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2001 to 2003.
- James Lindgren
James Lindgren is a professor of law at Northwestern University. He was a leading critic and investigator of charges of scholarly impropriety against anti-gun scholar Michael Bellesiles. Later, and perhaps because of this history, he was chosen to investigate charges that pro-gun scholar John Lott had invented a study. He concluded both were likely guilty of serious misconduct. Lindgren blogs at the Volokh Conspiracy.
- Mari Matsuda
Mari Matsuda (born 1956) is an American lawyer, activist, and law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, specializing in the fields of torts, constitutional law, legal history, feminist theory, critical race theory, and civil rights law.
- Jeffrey Sean Lehman
Jeffrey S. Lehman was appointed Cornell University's eleventh president by the Board of Trustees at a special meeting held on campus Saturday, Dec. 14, 2002, and he assumed the presidency on July 1, 2003. He was the first Cornell alumnus to serve as president of the university. In his inaugural address, Lehman characterized Cornell as a blend of beloved and revolutionary elements.
- Susan Haack
Susan Haack (born 1945) is an English professor of philosophy and law at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, in the United States. She has made contributions in the fields of philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics.
- Douglas H. Ginsburg
Judge Ginsburg is a graduate of Cornell University and of the University of Chicago Law School (1973), where he was the Articles Editor of the Law Review. He was law clerk to Hon. Carl G. McGowan on the D.C. Circuit, and to Justice Thurgood of the U.S. Supreme Court before joining the Harvard Law School Faculty (1975-83).
- Vernon L. Smith
Professor Vernon L. Smith pioneered the field of experimental economics nearly 50 years ago. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002 for his contributions to the economic sciences. Before 1956, when Dr. Smith completed his first experiment, economic theory assumed markets are efficient only with a large number of buyers and sellers. Experimental methods were the first to test such theories.
- Bernhard Schlink
Bernhard Schlink is a German writer with a legal background. He became a judge at the Constitutional Court of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1988 and is a professor for public law and the philosophy of law at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany as of January 2006. His career as a writer began with several detective novels with a main character named Selb-a play on the German word for "self"- (the first, "Self's Punishment", …
- Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (Russian: Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев; born September 14, 1965 in Leningrad), is a Russian politician and businessman. He was appointed first deputy prime minister of the Russian government on November 14, 2005. Formerly Vladimir Putin's chief of staff, he is also the chairman of Gazprom's board of directors, a post he has held for the second time since 2000.
- Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw (b.1959) is a law professor specializing in race and gender issues. She was born in Canton, Ohio in 1959. She received a B.A. from Cornell in 1981, a J.D. from Harvard in 1984, an LL.M. from the University of Wisconsin in 1985, and has been a part of the UCLA Law faculty since 1986. She has published works on civil rights, black feminist legal theory, and race, racism, and the law.
- 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.
- Boudewijn Bouckaert
Boudewijn Bouckaert is a Belgian liberal thinker and politician, adhering to more radical-liberal views than the vast majority of Flemish liberals. He is chairman of the classical liberal Nova Civitas think tank and a member of List Dedecker. Boudewijn Bouckaert holds a PhD and works as a University Professor at the Law School of the University of Ghent, the University of Paris and the University of Aix-Marseille.
- Nadine Strossen
Nadine Strossen , president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and professor of law at New York Law School, will speak about cyber censorship on Thursday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. in the Chapel. She was named one of "The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America" by National Law Review two times and among the top "100 Executives Leading the Digital Revolution" by Upside Magazine, in addition to many other distinctions.
- Jonathan Zittrain
Jonathan Zittrain Jonathan Zittrain is a co-founder of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and from 1997 to 2000 served as its first executive director. He further holds the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and is a principal of the Oxford Internet Institute. Zittrain is the Jack N. & Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School.
- Afshin Ellian
Afshin Ellian (born 27 February, 1966 in Tehran, Iran) is a Dutch professor of law, philosopher, and poet. He's an expert in international criminal law.
- Stuart L. Deutsch
Stuart L. Deutsch has been dean of Rutgers Law School-Newark since the summer of 1999. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1969, and his L.L.M. from Harvard Law School in 1974, where he was a Fellow in Law and the Humanities. He is a 1966 graduate of the University of Michigan.
- Roman Herzog
Roman Herzog (born April 5, 1934) is a German politician (CDU) and was the President of Germany from 1994 to 1999
- Jan C. Ting
Jan C. Ting is a Professor of Law at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Republican Party, and was the Republican candidate for U.S. Senator from Delaware in the 2006 U.S. Senate election.
- Wilfredo Caraballo
Wilfredo Caraballo (born January 1, 1947 in Puerto Rico) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 1996, where he represents the 29th legislative district. Caraballo serves as the Assembly's Speaker Pro Tempore starting with the 2006-2008 legislative session. He served as the Parliamentarian from 2002-2006 and as Associate Minority Leader from 1998-2001.
- Philip McConnaughay
Philip J. McConnaughay, is the current Dean and The Donald J. Farage Professor of Law at The Pennsylvania State University's Dickinson School of Law. Previously, he was a Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He was admitted to Illinois bar in 1978; 1979, California; 1983, District of Columbia; 1992‑1994, Japan; 1994‑1996, Hong Kong.
- Edwin Meese
Mr. Meese served as attorney general of the United States from 1985 to 1988, during which time he championed what he termed the "jurisprudence of original intent." Calling for fidelity to the intentions of the Constitution's framers and ratifiers, he opposed the judicial activism of the modern Supreme Court and helped bring about the nomination and confirmation of Supreme Court justices and hundreds of federal court judges pledged to the philosophy of judicial restraint.
- Rod Bryden
Rod Bryden is a prominent Ottawa business executive. He is best known as the owner of the Ottawa Senators National Hockey League team from 1992 until 2003. Outside of hockey, his career has included founding or leading several of Canada's leading companies. Mr. Bryden was born in Port Elgin, New Brunswick. Mr. Bryden obtained a B.A. Hon. Ec., from Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick; an LLB, University of New Brunswick, …
- Diane Orentlicher
Diane Orentlicher , Report of the Independent Expert to Update the Set of Principles to Comabat Impunity (UN Doc. E/CN.4/2005/102 Feb. 18, 2005). Diane Orentlicher , Updated Set of Principles for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights Through Action to Comabt Impunity (UN Doc. E/CN.4/2005/102/Add. 1 Feb. 8, 2005).
- Vikram Amar
- Charles Ogletree
Professor Ogletree is the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, and founding and executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice. Dean Lewis introduced Professor Ogletree and reminiscenced about their days as students at Harvard Law School in the 1970s.
- Lillian Bevier
At Stanford Law School, BeVier was revising editor for the Stanford Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif.
- Jeremy Hutchinson Baron Hutchinson of Lullington
Jeremy Nicolas Hutchinson, Baron Hutchinson of Lullington QC (born 28 March 1915) is a British lawyer. Hutchinson was educated at Stowe School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in philosophy, politics and economics. Called to the Bar, Middle Temple in 1939, he served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1961, a Bencher, …
- Evelyn Ginsburg Abravanel
Evelyn Ginsburg Abravanel is professor of law specializing in personal property, real property, trusts and estates. She is author of "Apportioning Receipts for Wasting Assets under the Uniform Laws: A Proposal for Legislative Reform", North Carolina Law Review, 58 (1980); and "Discretionary Support Trusts," Iowa Law Review (1983).
- Marilyn Cane
- 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.