- O. J. Simpson
Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson (born July 9, 1947) (also known by his nickname, The Juice) is a retired American football player who achieved stardom at the collegiate and professional levels, and was the first NFL player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season. He later worked as an actor, spokesperson and broadcaster. Simpson is infamous for having been tried for the murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994. - Alan Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American political figure and criminal law professor at Harvard Law School known for his extensive published works, career as an attorney in several high-profile law cases, and commentary on the Arab-Israeli conflict. He has spent most of his career at Harvard Law School, where, at the age of 28, he became the youngest full professor in the history of Harvard, … - Dan Markel
Dan Markel is an American legal academic who has written important works on retribution in criminal law and sentencing, with a focus on the role of shame in the criminal justice system. He is a professor at Florida State University College of Law. He is a co-founder of a blog for academic law professors, PrawfsBlawg. He holds a J.D. and B.A. from Harvard University, and an M.Phil from Cambridge University. - Scott Turow
Scott Turow (born April 12, 1949) is an American novelist and author, as well as a practicing lawyer. Turow has written eight fiction and two nonfiction books, which have been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over 25 million copies. Movies have been based on several of his books. - Yale Kamisar
Yale Kamisar is the Clarence Darrow Distinguished University Professor of Law Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Michigan Law School as well as a tenured professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. Professor Kamisar, a graduate of Columbia Law School, joined the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School in 1965, and has taught at San Diego since 2002. Legal scholar in the field of criminal law and criminal procedure. - Mark John Geragos
Arguably the most well-known, high-profile clientele-laden attorney in Los Angeles and possibly the country, Mark Geragos is the managing partner of the 13-partner firm Geragos & Geragos. - John Madden
Sir John Madden (16 May 1844 - 10 March 1918), Irish-Australian jurist and politician, was the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria. Madden was born in the village of Cloyne, near Cork, Ireland, in 1844, the second of seven sons of a Cork solicitor also named John Madden. The family moved to London, England in 1852, where his father had taken a job managing an insurance company, and there Madden attended a private school. - Dan M. Kahan
Dan M. Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law at Yale Law School. In addition to risk perception, his areas of research include criminal law and evidence. He is perhaps best known for his work on social norms. His current research into cultural cognition focuses on cultural conflict over law and risk regulation. - Leo Katz
Leo Katz is the Frank Carano Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Katz joined the Penn Law faculty, coming from the University of Michigan Law School. Leo Katz's work focuses on criminal law, and his explorations of the paradoxes of criminal law and deontological theory help facilitate a deeper understanding of philosophical and legal issues. For example, by investigating crimes of coercion and deception, economic crimes like tax evasion, … - Roy Black
Roy Black (born February 17, 1945 in New York City) is a criminal defense attorney. He is best known for his gaining an acquittal, in 1991, of William Kennedy Smith on charges of rape and for his representation of conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh on charges related to Limbaugh's alleged misuse of OxyContin, a pharmaceutical opioid. - Gerry Maher
Gerard 'Gerry' Maher QC is a Scottish lawyer and academic. He is currently a Law Commissioner at the Scottish Law Commission and Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Edinburgh. He was Professor of Criminal Law and International Private Law at Strathclyde Law School from 1992 - 2000. Maher studied law at the University of Glasgow and obtained a B.Litt. at the University of Oxford in 1976. - Michael Mandel
Michael Mandel is a Canadian legal academic, specializing in criminal law with a particular interest in criminal sentencing. He was a part of the Osgoode Hall Law School's faculty since 1974 having also graduated from Osgoode with his LL.B.. He taught a Native Law Program at the University of Saskatchewan, McMaster University, the University of Toronto, and a lecture circuit in Italy. - Edward Leigh
Edward Julian Egerton Leigh is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Conservative Member of Parliament for Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, and was first elected in 1983. He has served as Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee since 2001. He was educated at The Oratory School, the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle (a French school in London) and University College, Durham where he read History and was president of the Durham Union Society. - Jed Rubenfeld
Jed Rubenfeld is the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is an expert on constitutional law, criminal law, privacy, and the First Amendment. - Charles Whitebread
Charles H. Whitebread , 65, of Santa Monica, California and Charlottesville, Virginia, a nationally respected law professor, author and lecturer in the law for over forty years, passed away from lung cancer on September 16, 2008 in Santa Monica. Professor Whitebread grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, attended Landon School and went to Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1965. - Christopher Columbus Langdell
Christopher Columbus Langdell (May 22, 1826 - July 6, 1906), American jurist, was born in the town of New Boston, New Hampshire, of English and Scots-Irish ancestry. He studied at Phillips Exeter Academy in 1845-1848, at Harvard College in 1848-1850 and at Harvard Law School in 1851-1854. He practised law from 1854 to 1870 in New York City, but he was almost unknown when, in January 1870, … - Dick Deguerin
Dick DeGuerin (born in Austin, Texas, February 16, 1941) is a Texas criminal defense attorney. DeGuerin was admitted to the State Bar in 1965. Early in his career (1971-1982), he was an associate with Percy Foreman. As of December, 2005, he is representing former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay in DeLay's defense against indictments for money laundering and conspiracy, brought by Texas prosecutor Ronnie Earle. - David Paciocco
David M. Paciocco (LL.B. (U.W.O.), B.C.L. (Oxon.), LL.D. (Hon., Laurentian), of the Bar of Ontario, Full Professor) is a professor at the University of Ottawa assigned to the common law Section. Since 1982 he has taught at the Faculty of Law classes pertaining to Evidence, Criminal Law, and Trusts. From 1981 - 1982 he taught at the University of Windsor “and as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1989 - 90. - Christine van den Wyngaert
Christine (Chris) Van den Wyngaert (b. 2 April 1952, Antwerp, Belgium) is a criminal law expert, and from 2003 a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. - Don Kates
Don B. Kates is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. He received his J.D. from Yale University Law School and has taught constitutional law and lectured on criminology at Stanford University, Oxford University, Saint Louis University School of Law, and the University of Melbourne. - Francis Wharton
Francis Wharton (March 7, 1820-February 21, 1889), American legal writer and educationalist, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated at Yale in 1839, was admitted to the bar in 1843, became prominent in Pennsylvania politics as a Democrat, and in Philadelphia edited the "North American and United States Gazette". He was professor of English history and literature at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in 1856-1863. - Lance Ito
Lance Allan Ito (born August 2, 1950 in Los Angeles, California) is a Japanese-American Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, best known for his role in the O. J. Simpson murder trial. He is currently a practicing judge, who hears felony criminal cases at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center. He is a resident of Pasadena. Ito was born to two Japanese-American parents, Jim and Toshi Ito. - Howard Schwartz
Howard Schwartz was a Canadian broadcaster between 1976 and 1995. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Schwartz began his career at Montreal radio station CJFM-FM in 1976 as a disc jockey and newsreader. He moved to Calgary in 1977 to work at CJAY-FM, at the time, the city's first progressive country rock radio station. Howard then returned to Montreal in 1978 for another stint as a DJ at CJFM before making a career change to become a newscaster at CFCF-AM. - John Gallagher
Mr John Gallagher QC is a Barrister and Queen's Counsel whose practice involves civil and criminal law. He is currently a Director of the Board of the public broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He was first appointed to the ABC board for a five year term on 9 December 1999, and then reappointed for a three year term from 24 February 2005. He was appointed deputy chairman until his term expires on 23 February 2008. - 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. - John Norton Pomeroy
John Norton Pomeroy (1828-1885) was an American lawyer and legal writer, born in Rochester, N. Y., where he practiced law for many years following his graduation from Hamilton College (1847) and his admittance to the state bar in 1851. He interrupted his law practice from 1864 to 1868 to serve as professor of law and political science and dean of the law faculty at the University of New York, … - E. Michael McCann
Mr. McCann is well familiar with Jesuit education at the secondary (Marquette University High School), undergraduate (University of Detroit), and professional school (Georgetown University) levels. He also earned a Master of Laws (LLM) from Harvard University and was awarded honorary degrees from Marquette University and Marian College in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. - James Lockyer
James Lockyer is a social justice activist in Canada. He is the founding director of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC). He has been involved in exposing more than ten wrongful convictions in Canada, including the cases of Guy Paul Morin, David Milgaard, Clayton Johnson and Gregory Parsons. Several of these cases have become the subject of public inquiries. Mr. Lockyer is currently working on behalf of Steven Truscott, … - Stephen Hesford
Stephen Hesford (born May 27, 1957) is a British politician and the Labour Member of Parliament for Wirral West. Stephen Hesford was born in Lowton St Mary's, near Leigh, Lancashire and was educated at the Urmston Grammar School and the University of Bradford where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in social sciences in 1978. He went on to study at the Polytechnic of Central London and earned his Master of Laws in 1980. - Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni
Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni is an Argentine lawyer, PhD in Law and Social Sciences (Universidad Nacional del Litoral, 1964), and member of the Supreme Court of Justice of Argentina from 2003. Zaffaroni is Professor and Head of the Department of Criminal Law, Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Vicepresident of the Scientific Committee, International Association of Penal Law. - Edgar Snyder
Edgar Snyder, (born September 6, 1941) is a Pittsburgh-area personal injury attorney. Born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania to Polish and Russian immigrants, Snyder was pressured at an early age to pursue a professional career. After being educated at Penn State and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Snyder has been practicing law in western Pennsylvania since the 1960s. He began his career as a criminal defense lawyer, … - Richard Bierschbach
Richard A. Bierschbach is a law professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. He specializes in alternative sentencing, criminal law, and white-collar crime. Bierschbach attended the University of Michigan, receiving his Bachelor of Arts in 1994, and his juris doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1997. - Clive Anderson
Clive Anderson (born 10 December 1952) is a British former practising barrister (specialising in criminal law) turned comedy writer and television presenter. - Francesco Carrara
Francesco Carrara was an Italian jurist and liberal politician. He was one of the leading criminal law scholars and death penalty abolition advocates in 19th century Europe. After studies and a doctorate in Pisa, Carrara practiced law in Florence and Lucca, where he was soon engaged in debates about criminal law reform. In 1848, he was appointed to the chair of criminal law at the University of Lucca, 1859 at Pisa. - Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach
Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach (November 14, 1775 - May 29, 1833) was a German legal scholar. - David Heilpern
David Heilpern, is an Australian lawyer and author. David Heilpern is a Magistrate of New South Wales formerly a solicitor and barrister with the Australian Government Solicitor and in private practice specialises in criminal law. He is the son of former Byron Shire Councillor, Sandra Heilpern. He is the recipient of the Southern Cross University’s Alumnus of the Decade Award. One of Magistrate Heilpern's recent sittings was in April 13, … - Melville Nimmer
Melville Bernard Nimmer (1923-1985) was an American lawyer and law professor, renowned as an expert in freedom of speech and United States copyright law. Nimmer graduated from UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the California State Bar in January 1951. He was professor at the UCLA School of Law from 1962. One year later, he published the two-volume treatise that would become the definitive text on copyright law, "Nimmer on Copyright." In 1984, … - Mohamed Yousry
Mohamed Yousry (whose name is often misspelled as Mohammed Yousry) is an interpreter and translator who was appointed by the court to assist in the trial of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric who was convicted in 1996 of plotting terrorist attacks against various sites in the New York City area. On February 10, 2005 Yousry was indicted in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, … - Roger Groot
Roger Douglas Groot (1942-2005) was the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia, where he had taught since 1973. He was an expert in criminal law and procedure, and the death penalty. Groot had been appointed counsel in several Virginia capital cases, appointed as defense legal analyst in federal death penalty cases, and consulted in several hundred capital cases. - Gérald Fauteux
Joseph Honoré Gérald Fauteux, PC, CC, LL.L. (October 22, 1900 - September 14, 1980) was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1970 to 1973. Born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, the son of Homère Fauteux and Héva Mercier, he studied at the Université de Montréal and graduated with an LL.L in 1925. Called to the bar that year, he settled in Montreal, where he practised with his grandfather, Honoré Mercier, forming the law firm of Mercier & Fauteux.
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