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  1. Michelle Lavaughn Obama

    With the ascent of her husband as a prominent nationwide politician, she has become a half of pop culture. In May 2006, Essence magazine listed her amongst "25 of the World's Most Inspiring Women." [24] In July 2007, Vanity Fair magazine listed her surrounded by "10 of the World's Best Dressed People." In September 2007, 02138 magazine listed her 58th of "The Harvard 100," a listing of the prior year's many influential Harvard alumni. Her husband was ranked fourth. [25]

  2. 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 ...

  3. Elena Kagan

    Kagan, the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law, is currently the 11th Dean of Harvard Law School. Kagan first came to Harvard Law School as a visiting professor in 1999 and became Professor of Law in 2001. She has taught administrative law, constitutional law, civil procedure, and seminars on issues involving the separation of powers. She was appointed Dean of the Law School in 2003.

  4. Jonathan K. Baum

    Jonathan K. Baum is the Firm’s Director of Pro Bono Services. He is one of only a handful of attorneys in the nation, and was the first in the Midwest, whose full-time responsibility is the delivery of pro bono services. An experienced litigator, Mr. Baum both actively litigates individual cases, principally in the areas of civil rights and civil liberties, and also coordinates the Firm’s entire pro bono practice, both litigation and transactional.

  5. Andrew M. Rosenfield

    Andrew M. Rosenfield , Chairman, Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Rosenfield is an economist, lawyer and educator who has long been associated with higher education and has taught at The University of Chicago Law School. He was the founder, President and now the Chairman of Lexecon Inc., one of the country's premier economic consulting firms. He was educated at Kenyon College, Harvard University, The University of Chicago, and The University of Chicago Law School.

  6. William L. Scogland

    WILLIAM L. SCOGLAND (BILL), Partner

  7. James D. Holzhauer
  8. Rebecca Dresser
  9. Chester T Kamin
  10. Ross Guberman
  11. Richard Orlikoff
  12. Mr. John vander Vort
  13. Wiktor Osiatynski

    Wiktor Osiatynski Wiktor Osiatynski is a CEU University Professor at Central European University as well as a member of the Advisory Board of OSI–Budapest, the Open Society Justice Initiative Advisory Board, and the OSI Central and Eastern European Sub-Board. He has taught at many universities, including Columbia University, Stanford University, the University of Chicago and the University of Connecticut in the United States and the University of Siena in Italy.

  14. Matthew Crowl

    Matthew C. Crowl Partner Matthew C. Crowl is a trial attorney. He has extensive experience in white collar crime, corporate compliance, and business disputes, as well as governmental policy, operations, and litigation — achieved during more than 15 years of distinguished public service as a senior city official and federal prosecutor.

  15. William Tong

    William Tong www.williamtong.com Elected as State Representative, Connecticut's District 147 William Tong On November 7, 2006, attorney William Tong wom 53% of the vote to become the first Asian Pacific American elected at the state level in Connecticut's history. He will represent the 147th District, which includes parts of Stamford and New Canaan. The son of Chinese restaurant owners, William attended public and private schools in West Hartford.

  16. Steven E. Ducommun
  17. Alexandra E. Weisfeld

    Alexandra E. Weisfeld is an associate in Jenner & Block�s Chicago office. She is a member of the Firm's Tax, Tax Controversy, Climate and Clean Technology Law, and Real Estate Securities Practices. Her recent work has included tax shelter litigation, the tax aspects of bankruptcies and restructurings, and analysis of the tax implications of investments for pension funds. Ms. Weisfeld graduated from the University of Chicago College in 2001 with a degree in Spanish.

  18. Peter Lurie

    Peter Lurie General Counsel and Secretary Peter Lurie joined us in May 2000, prior to the formation of VMU, and was a key player in the formation and launch of the company. Previously, Mr. Lurie served as principal of a private equity group affiliated with Commerzbank Capital Markets Corp., which offered the first public offering of a private equity fund in Europe. Prior to that, he worked on M&A and private equity transactions at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.

  19. Paul Woo

    Paul Woo has been active in career services administration and counseling at the Law School for over twenty-five years. He works with students, employers, and office staff in every phase of the on-campus recruitment process, and works at administering our Web based database management system.

  20. Zsuzsanna Belenyessy

    International business lawyer with eleven years of professional experience in Budapest, Prague, Bucharest, Washington D.C., Chicago and Brussels. Currently European Union civil servant, legal adviser at the Secretariat of the European Data Protection Supervisor in Brussels. Previously advised clients on European trade (anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures), distribution, competition, and data protection issues, as well as various European regulatory issues in Brussels. Prior to that, . . .

  21. Alexandra E. Dowling

    ALEXANDRA E. DOWLING , Associate Alexandra E. Dowling is an associate in Jenner & Block’s Chicago office. She is a member of the Firm's Tax, Tax Controversy, Climate and Clean Technology Law, Private Equity/ Investment Management and Real Estate Securities Practices. Her recent work has included tax shelter litigation, bankruptcies and restructurings, and private equity fund, hedge fund formation, and private offerings.

  22. Zeynep Sener
  23. Ian Bushner
  24. Maximilian A. Grant

    Maximilian A. Grant , Vice President for Corporate Development & Deputy General Counsel. Grant is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Georgetown University and The University of Chicago Law School. He is a former Naval Officer and served as a Navy SEAL team leader.

  25. James Gette

    Mr. Gette was born on May 18, 1964, in Erie, Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from Westminster College in 1986, where he served as student government president, and his J.D. degree from The University of Chicago Law School in 1989. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania (1993), Washington, D.C. (1990) and Illinois (1989), and is a member of the American and Washington, D.C. Bar Associations.

  26. Harry Kalven

    Harry Kalven , Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Law The University of Chicago Law School

  27. Richard A. Epstein Jr.

    Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School

  28. Michael T. Brody

    Michael T. Brody graduated cum laude from the University of Chicago in 1983, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. He has concentrated his practice in the commercial litigation area, focusing on complex litigation, including insurance coverage disputes. Mr. Brody has represented policyholders in coverage disputes with insurance companies.

  29. David Kessler

    David Kessler is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and the University of Chicago Law School. He completed his internship and residency training in pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and served as the medical director of the Hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine from 1984 to 1990 when he was appointed commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In 1997, he became dean of the Yale School of Medicine.

  30. Jack R. Bierig

    Jack R. Bierig is a partner at Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, LLP and a visiting faculty member at the Harris School. Jack R. Bierig has been a partner at Sidley Austin Brown & Wood since 1978. He has extensive experience in litigation challenging government action affecting health care providers, copyright and trademark cases, and FDA matters.

  31. Robert A. Stein

    Professor Robert A. Stein rejoined the faculty as Everett Fraser Professor of Law in the fall of 2006. Previously, from 1994 to 2006, Professor Stein was the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of the American Bar Association (ABA).

  32. Barack Obama

    Barack Hussein Obama II born August 4, 1961 is the President-elect of the United States of America. The first African American to be elected President of the United States, Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois in 2004 and served until his resignation on November 16, 2008, following his election to the Presidency. His term of office as the forty-fourth U.S. president will begin on January 20, 2009.

  33. Barak Obama

    Mr. Obama graduated from Columbia University and promptly went into community organizing for the Developing Communities Project in Roseland and Altgeld Gardens on the far south side of Chicago. He went on to Harvard University, where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated with a law degree. In 1992, he was Director of Illinois Project Vote, a voter registration campaign that made Carol Moseley Braun 's election to the U.S. Senate much easier than it would have been.

  34. Dennis W. Carlton

    Dennis W. Carlton focuses his research on microeconomics, industrial organization, and antitrust. He has published more than 80 articles and two books, including one of the leading textbooks in industrial organization. He is also the coeditor of the Journal of Law and Economics and Competition Policy International . From 2006 to 2008, he served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis at the U.S. Department of Justice.

  35. Daniel R. Fischel

    Professor Fischel graduated from Cornell University and received his MA in American history from Brown University. He received his JD cum laude from the University of Chicago in 1977. In 1980, he became a professor of law at Northwestern. After serving as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School during the 1982-83 academic year, Professor Fischel joined the University of Chicago faculty permanently in January 1984 and served as dean from 1999 to 2001.

  36. Mark D. Rosen

    Professor Rosen joined Chicago-Kent in the fall of 1999, and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School in 2005-06. One of Professor Rosen's articles received the 2005 Outstanding Scholarly Paper Award from the Association of American Law Schools. He has a B.A. in economics and political science from Yale College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was articles editor of the Harvard Law Review .

  37. John R. Sylla

    John R. Sylla , based in California, is an entrepreneur and works in venture capital. He is currently chairman of PetroShear Corporation, an energy technology development company, and has recently been active with projects in software, education, marketing, and entertainment, as well as pro bono projects, in multiple capacities (e.g., founder, director, officer, lawyer, producer, consultant, investor).

  38. Mark Baudler

    Adjunct Professor Mark Baudler is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He has been an attorney in the firm's corporate and securities law practice since 1996. Professor Baudler represents technology and growth companies at all stages of their development, from seed-stage start-ups to early-stage public companies to more mature public companies.

  39. Michael G. Collins

    Michael Collins joined the Law School as Joseph M. Hartfield Professor of Law in 2007. Collins previously taught at Tulane Law School, where he was the Robert A. Ainsworth Professor of Law. He currently teaches federal courts, civil procedure, evidence and conflict of laws. Prior to attending law school, he earned a graduate degree in classical languages and literature at Stanford University.

  40. Josh Bowers

    Josh Bowers joined the law faculty in 2008 as an associate professor of law after two years as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. Bowers graduated order of the coif from New York University School of Law, where he was a notes editor of the Law Review . After law school, he clerked for Judge Dennis Jacobs of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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