- John Edwards
Johnny Reid "John" Edwards (born June 10 1953), is an American politician who was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004 and a one-term U.S. Senator from North Carolina. On December 27 2006, he announced his entry into the 2008 Presidential election. Edwards was a trial lawyer before entering politics. - John Cornyn
John Cornyn III (born February 2, 1952) is the junior United States Senator from Texas. He is a Republican and was elected to his first term in November 2002, defeating Democrat Ron Kirk, the former mayor of Dallas, Texas. Cornyn was born in Houston, Texas to Atholene Gale Danley and John Cornyn II. He graduated from Trinity University in 1973, where he majored in journalism and was a member of the local fraternity Chi Delta Tau. He earned a J.D. from St. - Pamela Samuelson
Pamela Samuelson is a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information Management & Systems as well as in the School of Law where she is a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She teaches courses on intellectual property, cyberlaw and information policy. - Daniel J. Solove
Daniel J. Solove is an associate professor of law at the George Washington University Law School. He is well known for his academic work on privacy and for popular books on how privacy relates with information technology. - Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse (born October 20, 1955) is the Junior Senator from the state of Rhode Island. A Democrat, he previously served as United States Attorney (1994-1998) and state Attorney General for Rhode Island.Whitehouse was born in New York City, New York, the son of Mary Celine Rand and career diplomat Charles S. Whitehouse , and grandson of diplomat Sheldon Whitehouse . He graduated from St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and from Yale University in 1978. - Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly (born 1953) is an American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. He is currently serving in his 5th term in the Maryland House of Delegates, representing Maryland's District 1B in Allegany County. Kelly is a member of the Judiciary Committee and its Civil Law and Procedure Subcommittee. Kelly was born in Cumberland, Maryland on August 18, 1953. - James B. Jacobs
James B. Jacobs (born April 251947) is an American legal scholar and law professor at New York University School of Law. James Jacobs holds a JD ('73) and PhD in Sociology ('75) from the University of Chicago. In 1982, after seven years' as a faculty member at Cornell Law School, Professor Jacobs was recruited to New York University School of Law, where he was appointed Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice. - John Minor Wisdom
John Minor Wisdom (May 17, 1905 - May 15, 1999), one of the "Fifth Circuit Four", and a liberal Republican from Louisiana, was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit during the 1950s and 1960s, when that court became known for a series of decisions crucial in advancing the civil rights of African-Americans. At that time, the Fifth Circuit included not only Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas (its jurisdiction since October 1, 1981), … - Gigi Sohn
Gigi Sohn , President and Co-Founder, Public Knowledge. Ms. Sohn is an internationally known communications attorney. In September 2001, she founded Public Knowledge with Laurie Racine and David Bollier . Gigi serves as PK's chief strategist, fundraiser and public face. Gigi is a Non-Resident Fellow at the University of Southern California Annenberg Center, and a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Faculty of Law. - Gene R. Nichol
Gene R. Nichol is the twenty-sixth president of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Nichol attended Oklahoma State University, where he received a philosophy degree and played on the varsity football team. He received his law degree in 1976 from the University of Texas, graduating Order of the Coif. - 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). - J. Mark Ramseyer
J. Mark Ramseyer is Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and a preeminent scholar on the subjects of Japanese Law and Law and Economics. He is a foremost authority on these topics. - Norman Abrams
Norman Abrams (born 1933) is acting chancellor and Professor Emeritus in the School of Law at UCLA. It was announced on June 15, 2006 that UC President Robert C. Dynes appointed Abrams to serve as interim chancellor of UCLA starting June 30, 2006, succeeding Albert Carnesale. Gene D. Block has been appointed the next chancellor of UCLA. He will take his position on or before August 1, 2007. - Giuliano Amato
Giuliano Amato (born May 13, 1938) is an Italian politician. He was Prime Minister of Italy twice, first from 1992 to 1993 and then from 2000 to 2001. He was more recently Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe that drafted the new European Constitution and headed the Amato Group. He is commonly nicknamed "dottor Sottile", (which means both "Dr. Thin" and "Dr. Subtle", a joke about both his physical thinness and his political insightfulness). - Joshua Cohen
Joshua Cohen (born 1951) is a political philosopher and Professor at Stanford University where he holds appointments in the departments of Political Science and Philosophy and in the School of Law. At Stanford, Cohen is the head of the new center for global justice. Much of his work concerns philosophy of law, political philosophy, democratic theory, especially deliberative democracy, and global justice. Previously a professor of political science and philosophy at MIT, … - 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, … - M. Margaret McKeown
Judge M. Margaret McKeown (born May 11, 1951, in Casper, Wyoming) is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Judge McKeown received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wyoming in 1972, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and her juris doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in 1975. She has also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Georgetown and studied at the University of Madrid. - David S. Wall
David S. Wall (BA, MA, M. Phil, PhD) is Professor of Criminal Justice and Head of the School of Law at the University of Leeds, UK, and was formerly the Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies. - Han Fei
Han Fei (韓非) (ca. 280-233 BC) was a philosopher who, along with Li Si, developed Xun Zi's philosophy into the doctrine embodied by the "School of Law" or Legalism. Unlike the other famed philosophers of the time, Han Fei was a member of the ruling aristocracy, having been born into the ruling family of the state of Han during the end phase of the Warring States Period. - Michael Peroutka
Michael Anthony Peroutka (born 1952) is a Maryland lawyer, the founder of the Institute on the Constitution, cohost of The American View, and once held a position in the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Peroutka was born in Baltimore, Maryland to Elizabeth and Anthony J. Peroutka. His paternal grandparents were the children of immigrants from Bohemia. He is a graduate of Loyola College in Maryland and the University of Baltimore School of Law. - Robert Luskin
Robert D. Luskin (born January 21, 1950) is an attorney and partner in the law firm of Patton Boggs LLP, specializing in White-collar crime and federal and state government investigations. He is currently the personal attorney for White House senior advisor and chief political strategist Karl Rove, representing Rove in the special investigations into the outing of covert operative Valerie Plame's position within the CIA as a WMD specialist. - Frederick Hitz
Frederick Hitz served as Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1990 until May 1998. A graduate of Princeton University and the Harvard School of Law, Hitz entered the CIA in 1967 as an operations officer. In 1973 he moved on to offices in the State Department, Department of Defense, and Department of Energy, before ultimately returning to the CIA in 1978. President George H. W, Bush appointed Mr. - Daniel Ravicher
Daniel Ravicher ("Dan") serves as Executive Director of the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) and Legal Director of Software Freedom Law Center. - Alexi Giannoulias
State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias delivers his inaugural address in Springfield. ... Springfield -- Alexi Giannoulias was sworn in as the Illinois State Treasurer on Monday, the first Democrat to hold the office in 12 years. - David Catania
David A. Catania is a politician from Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. He is currently a member of the Council of the District of Columbia, where he serves as an independent, elected at-large (i.e., not from any specific ward or district of the city). Catania was born in Missouri, and attended Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and School of Law. - Henry Latimer
Henry Latimer (born in Ocilla, Georgia, January 22, 1938; died in Broward County, Florida, January 24, 2005) was the first African-American circuit court judge in Broward County, and was in line to become the first African-American president of the Florida Bar Association when he was killed in a car accident in South Florida. At the time, he was an attorney for the firm of Greenberg Traurig, a member of the Board of Trustees for the University of Miami, … - Pamela Gann
Pamela Brooks Gann is the fourth president of Claremont McKenna College in California. Born in Monroe, North Carolina, Gann graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1970, with a degree in mathematics. She graduated from Duke University's School of Law in 1973 where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. She practiced law in Atlanta, Georgia and Charlotte, North Carolina. - Mary Muehlen Maring
Mary Muehlen Maring (born July 27, 1951) is a Justice on the North Dakota Supreme Court. Mary Muehlen Maring was born and raised in Devils Lake, North Dakota. She graduated with B.A. degree in Political Science and German from Moorhead State University in 1972 and in 1975 a juris doctor degree from the University of North Dakota School of Law. She was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1996. - Robert Elgie
Professor Robert Elgie is an author and academic at Dublin City University: - 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, … - Dale V. Sandstrom
Dale V. Sandstrom (born March 9, 1950) is a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as a North Dakota Public Service Commissioner from 1983 to 1992, and as a Justice on the North Dakota Supreme Court since 1992. Dale V. Sandstrom was born and raised in Grand Forks, North Dakota. He graduated with B.A. degree from North Dakota State University and a juris doctor degree from the University of North Dakota School of Law. - Neville Miller
Neville Miller was mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1933 to 1937. His father, Shackelford Miller, was Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals (the highest state appellate court at the time). He was valedictorian of his 1912 class at Louisville Male High School, and earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1916 and a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1920. - Stephen Pace
Olin Stephen Pace (March 9, 1891 - April 5, 1970) was an American politician and lawyer. Pace was born near Dawson, Georgia. He attended the Georgia School of Technology (now the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia) and graduated from the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens in 1914 with a Bachelor of Laws (B.L.) degree. While at UGA, he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society. After admittance to the state bar that same year, … - Paul Hodge
Paul Hodge is Chair of the Global Generations Policy Institute and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Oxford University. The public’s servant, action-oriented innovator, change-maker, pragmatic visionary, social entrepreneur, public interest advocate, law enforcement leader and educator – for 30 years, Paul Hodge has successfully confronted societal challenges by focusing his passion and creative talents to improving the quality of life for many of our fellow Americans. - Manning Force
Manning Ferguson Force (December 17, 1824 - May 8, 1899) was commander of the 20th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Manning F. Force was born in Washington D.C., where his father, Peter Force, was mayor. He attended Harvard, graduating from the school of law in 1849. The following year, Force moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and began his law practice. With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, … - Maurice Connolly
Maurice Connolly was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa. He was born in Dubuque, Iowa on March 13, 1877. Connolly attended the common schools. He was graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., in 1897, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. In 1898, he graduated from New York University School of Law, New York City. He was admitted to the bar in 1899 and did postgraduate work at Balliol College, Oxford, England, … - Albert Sidney Camp
Albert Sidney Camp (July 26, 1892 - July 24, 1954) was an American politician, educator and lawyer. Camp was born in Moreland, Georgia. The Camp family was a colonial family with ancestors arriving in the American colonies during the seventeenth century. Albert Sidney Camp was named for a Confederate General, Albert Sidney Johnston, under whom his great grandfather served during the American Civil War. The family name continues to this day with Camp's great grandson, … - John E. Bridges
John E. Bridges is a Chelan County Superior Court Judge in Washington state. He presided over the high-profile legal challenge to the 2004 Washington gubernatorial election in which he upheld the election of Christine Gregoire. He grew up in Chelan County, and graduated from Seattle Pacific University and the Gonzaga University School of Law. He was admitted to the Washington State bar association in 1976, and appointed to the bench by Gov. Booth Gardner in 1988. - Charles Floyd Hatcher
Charles Floyd Hatcher (born July 1, 1939) is an American politician and lawyer. He served in Congress as a Democrat. Hatcher was born in Doerun, Georgia and served in the United States Air Force from 1958 until 1962. After his military service, he attended Georgia Southern College in Statesboro in 1965 and then entered the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens. Hatcher graduated with a Juris Doctor degree in 1969, became a member of the state bar, … - Bryant Thomas Castellow
Bryant Thomas Castellow (July 29, 1876 - July 23, 1962) was an American politician, educator and lawyer. Castellow was born near Georgetown, Georgia in Quitman County and attended high schools in Eufaula, Alabama, and Coleman, Georgia. He then graduated from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia and later the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society and earned a Bachelor of Laws (B.L.) degree in 1897.
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